While details are still coming out about the Texas shooting, one thing is pretty clear that the local police force completely failed in its duty to protect the people. Shaun King has posted a clip where a police spokesman confirmed that cops went into the school to save their own kids! Seriously what the hell?  It gets worse, in another clip posted there are 40 officers outside with plate carriers and rifles standing outside doing nothing while the shooter was alive in the school!!!

“Go in there! Go in there!” women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who watched the scene from outside a house across the street.

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw said Wednesday that 40 minutes to an hour elapsed from when Ramos opened fire on the school security officer to when the tactical team shot him.

“The bottom line is law enforcement was there,” McCraw said. “They did engage immediately. They did contain (Ramos) in the classroom.”

Source: Associated Press

How the hell did law enforcement contain the shooter in a classroom when they didn’t enter the god damn school?!?  All the police officers on scene who did nothing need to be fired at a minimum and if there is some dereliction of duty charge that could be applied, they should go to jail for their inaction.  We as the public give the police a lot of power to protect people and the ones here clearly failed.  If you’re afraid of losing your life then don’t be a police officer, that’s a risk of that type of job.

As a gun owner (though in Canada) I definitely have my opinions on how to address the unique problem of mass shootings in the US but that can come later, right now I’m too upset the police response.