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Uvalde police, school district no longer cooperating with Texas probe of shooting

The Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde Independent School District police force are no longer cooperating with the Texas Department of Public Safety's investigation into the massacre at Robb Elementary School and the state's review of the law enforcement response, multiple law enforcement sources tell ABC News.

The Uvalde police chief and a spokesperson for the Uvalde Independent School District did not immediately respond to requests for comment from ABC News.

According to sources, the decision to stop cooperating occurred soon after the director of DPS, Col. Steven McCraw, held a news conference Friday during which he said the delayed police entry into the classroom was "the wrong decision" and contrary to protocol.


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Standingstones

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I believe the police chief arrived on the scene without his radio. He consequently gave orders to pull back. Small wonder they aren’t cooperating with authorities.
 

wwkirk

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Excellent idea!

Never had an AR but I've shot them. They are fun. This recent round of mass shootings happen to catch me when my interest in guns and shooting is at an ebb. I've sold a few and will continue. My 'keeper' would probably be an m1903 Springfield. That and my Ruger Mark II .22 target pistol - probably shot that more than anything.

What was I saying about politicians grabbing hold of some detail to drub us with? WTF is a 'high caliber weapon' ? Is that the new catchphrase - last time it was 'ghost guns' and 'MiG-22s" and .... oh sorry, getting my media squawking all mixed up.

Comparatively speaking a 9mm is lightweight. There are good reasons why it's ubiquitous but being superpowered is not one of them. I had a Glock 9mm a while. Got rid of it. I reload and the physical components are just too small for me to manipulate - cases, bullets. What does that say about it's high caliberness? Meanwhile, those ARs are firing .22 caliber bullets and are quite powerful - not at all the .22 rimfire plinkers and squirrel shooters. Those are centerfire rifles with bottleneck cases. The 5.56x45mm was designed to be an effective people killer - and more importantly wounder - for military purposes.

When it comes to these things it's like this - all depends on the circumstances. My oldest niece had her car run over by a tractor trailer and came away without a bruise. Her sister got hit by a small pickup truck head on and 15 years later is still undergoing surgeries - she's on her 13th or 14th by now. It's about the circumstances and use - you couldn't just hang a label on say, Peterbuilts and decide they're the deadly problem. Or to continue the analogy with Biden's comments, on little Chevy S10 trucks and call them 'high powered vehicles'

Biden goes on anti-gun tirade, suggests there's 'no rational basis' for 9mm pistols

Biden goes on anti-gun tirade, suggests there’s ‘no rational basis’ for 9mm pistols
By Mark Moore
May 30, 2022 1:28pm


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Biden speaks to reporters after returning to the White House on Monday. AP

President Biden ranted against ownership of what he called “high-caliber weapons” Monday — appearing to suggest that there should be restrictions on the most popular handgun in America, the 9mm pistol, and repeating a previously debunked claim that the Second Amendment prohibits ownership of cannons.

Speaking to reporters outside the White House after returning to Washington from a weekend that included a visit to the site of last week’s mass shooting in Texas, Biden recounted a visit to a trauma hospital in New York, where he said doctors had showed him X-rays of gunshot wounds caused by various firearms.

“They said a .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out — may be able to get it and save the life,” Biden said. “A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.

“So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of thinking about self-protection, hunting,” the president went on.

Later in his remarks, Biden appeared to rule out the possibility of taking major executive action on guns, saying: “I can’t dictate this stuff. I can do the things I’ve done and any executive action I can take, I’ll continue to take. But I can’t outlaw a weapon. I can’t, you know, change the background checks. I can’t do that.”



Joe and Jill Biden pay their respects at a memorial at Robb Elementary School.
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Biden’s statements about 9mm pistols are in keeping with his rhetoric before entering the White House. At a 2019 fundraiser in Seattle, for example, then-candidate Biden asked his audience: “Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?”

According to Shooting Industry magazine, 9mm pistols accounted for 56.8% of all handguns made in the US during 2019. In all, more than 15.1 million 9mm guns were produced in this country during the 2010s. The possibility of outlawing or otherwise regulating such weapons are likely to be a non-starter among conservatives and gun rights advocates.

“Remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment, was never absolute,” Biden said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”



Biden seemingly ruled out executive action on gun control.
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Biden has made that claim before, most recently when he announced new regulations to stop the spread of so-called “ghost guns,” and they have been repeatedly declared false by fact-checkers.

“The Second Amendment did not place limits on individual ownership of cannons,” PolitiFact stated in April when it rated his claim false.


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The website pointed out the text of the Constitution: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

Despite widespread public outrage over Tuesday’s massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and the racially-motivated May 14 mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store, Biden said he had not yet spoken with any Republicans about potential gun control legislation, but expressed hope for a compromise.

“I think things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about it,” he said. “At least, that’s my hope and prayer.”

Asked whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) authorizing Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to work with Democrats could lead to results, Biden said “I don’t know.”

“I think Senator McConnell is a rational Republican. I think Cornyn is as well,” he added. “I think there’s a recognition in their part that they — we can’t continue like this. We can’t do this.”

Without Republican support, Democrats are powerless to pass any gun legislation in the 50-50 Senate unless they manage to temporarily set aside the filibuster’s 60-vote threshold for passing most bills.



Biden called Mitch McConnell a “rational Republican.”
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Biden’s comments came fewer than 48 hours after Vice President Kamala Harris called for an assault weapons ban after attending a funeral for Buffalo shooting victim Ruth Whitfield, 86.

“You know what an assault weapon is? You know how an assault weapon was designed?” Harris said Saturday. “It was designed for a specific purpose – to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society.”
Tangentially related. I didn't know this before, but a 911 dispatcher hung up on the store manager during the Buffalo shooting incident!

"I called 911, I go through the whole operator and everything, the dispatcher comes on and I'm whispering to her, and I said ‘Miss, please send help to 1275 Jefferson there is a shooter in the store’," Rogers told WZZM. "She proceeded in a very nasty tone and says, ‘I can't hear you, why are you whispering? You don't have to whisper. They can't hear you’."

"So, I continued to whisper, and I said, ‘ma'am he's still in the store, he's still shooting! I'm scared for my life, please send help’," Rogers added. "Out of nervousness, my phone fell out of my hand, she said something I couldn't make out, and then the phone hung up."


Noteworthy detail - the dispatcher was no rookie:
The dispatcher, who worked for the Erie County Central Police Services Department for eight years, had been on administrative leave since May 16 "as the mishandled call was investigated," Peter Anderson, a spokesman for the office of the Erie County Executive, told media outlets.

Buffalo mass shooting: 911 dispatcher fired for allegedly hanging up on Tops supermarket employee
 

nivek

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Biden's build back better socialist slogan has turned into build back poorer for middle class Americans...

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Biden is furious he's trailing Trump in polls, erupted at staff for 'keeping him out of the loop in the baby formula crisis' and is trying to avoid being compared to Jimmy Carter, report claims



President Joe Biden has repeatedly complained to aides that he is less popular to Donald Trump and expressed frustration that he was not briefed properly on the baby formula crisis, according to officials and allies. In a White House filled with complaints that it is failing to get its message to voters, a new report reveals that biggest source of concern is the president himself. The result is plunging morale amid fears that a string of crises is painting him as the worst Democratic president since Jimmy Carter's calamitous time in office.

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wwkirk

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Biden is furious he's trailing Trump in polls, erupted at staff for 'keeping him out of the loop in the baby formula crisis' and is trying to avoid being compared to Jimmy Carter, report claims



President Joe Biden has repeatedly complained to aides that he is less popular to Donald Trump and expressed frustration that he was not briefed properly on the baby formula crisis, according to officials and allies. In a White House filled with complaints that it is failing to get its message to voters, a new report reveals that biggest source of concern is the president himself. The result is plunging morale amid fears that a string of crises is painting him as the worst Democratic president since Jimmy Carter's calamitous time in office.

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I bet Biden is Jimmy Carter's favorite president now. :dirol:
 

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Huge caravan of up to 15,000 migrants that could be the biggest EVER heads through Mexico towards the U.S. border ahead of Biden's Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles
  • The caravan now is 11,000 strong and on Monday departed Tapachula on the Mexico-Guatemala border and the group is expected to swell up to 15,000
  • Many of the migrants come from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua, three countries whose authoritarian rulers have been left out of this week's summit
  • On Monday Mexican President Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed that he would not attend the gathering in protest because leaders from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela had not been invited
  • The caravan is making its way northward as the Biden administration is fighting in court to end Title 42
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:laugh8::laugh8::laugh8:

White House says Biden has sparked 'historic economic BOOM' as stock market plunges into bear market amid record inflation, high gas prices and recession fears: Claims Americans 'are well positioned to face these challenges' thanks to the President



The White House defended President Joe Biden's economic record on Monday as the nation experienced historic inflation, gas prices over $5 a galloon and the stock market dropping. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre argued President Biden actually made historic economic gains, which would help the American people go through these economic 'challenges.' She blamed inflation - prices in May were 8.6% higher than a year earlier - the greatest increase since 1981 - on the covid pandemic and on Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in the Ukraine. 'You know, with this price, high inflation coming, coming out every once in a generation, global pandemic, all of those things play a factor,' Jean-Pierre said. But, she argued, that America would bounce back under Biden. 'The American people are well positioned to face these challenges because of the economic historic gains that we have made under this president in the last six months,' she noted.

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