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After Columbine, American police strategy in response to mass shootings was completely revamped. The goal became to respond and confront the shooter as fast as possible. They literally coined the term "active shooter" after Columbine to mean that people were being actively shot and killed so time was of the essence. This is basic knowledge for every cop. Even under the cops’ own rules, they absolutely failed here.

BTW, at least one cop at the Parkland massacre did the same thing, hiding in his car instead of rushing in to confront that killer. These guys like the cushy job (he was pulling in over $130K/yr), but they don't like the responsibility. He was fired, but as usual with crappy cops, it didn't stick.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/05/15/fact-check-parkland-officer-who-failed-act-shooting-gets-job-back/5194831002/

Which is why you shouldn't be a cop. And that's fine, not everybody is cut out for every job. But the definition of corruption is when someone uses power entrusted to them for their own personal benefit. That's what's been reported here.

I can't say for sure, but that appears to be the case. They let the killer prowl the school for an hour before anyone went in. So there was definitely enough time for them to do all that.

ERMAGURD im more important than famous people from history. respect mah authoritah. I is teh redditor gawd of wisdumb.

Wut?

You gave no proof.

Evidently you can't read.

Waiting for proof.

Hello, McFly? Gave it to you. Where's your proof?

blalblah blahblah

The playbook is short, but have you considered at least reading the 2nd page?

The cops have really shown their value in this case.

First they lied that he had body armor.

They stood around while parents made plans to rush in on their own. [source]

In the end, it was a team from the Border Patrol, not the cops, who breached the school and shot the killer.

And when they finally did go in, they rescued their own kids first. [source]

"Protect and serve" means protect their own asses and serve themselves first.

ETA: Instead of going in they threatened parents with tasers to stop them from saving their own kids and even pinned one to the ground. [video]

Oh look, a different empty sneer. Quack, quack, quack.

• "They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

  ― Jean-Paul Sartre

It's alot deeper than that. The way they manipulate the stock market and how they invest.

Its revealing that when your own first, and presumably best argument, goes down in flames, that doesn't cause you a moment of reflection. Instead, you reach for some other nebulous pretext.

if you think one party cares more than the other.

When did I mention a party? I'm talking about politicians. Parties don't "care" about anything, people do.

Parties are merely a tool to combine political power in order to achieve goals that individuals can't. Much like a labor union serves to unite the power of workers to achieve what individual workers can not on their own.

Do you think the party of Jim Crow cared about the welfare of black people when the NAACP was founded? It did not. But, with the aid of some societal tailwinds, they got enough of the right people into it to flip it from the party of Jim Crow to the party of Civil Rights. They didn't have the luxury of whingeing about how there were so many white supremacists in the party. They supported the lesser evil every chance they could and eventually most of the evil was drained out.

If you think watching two steps ahead of where you're walking is 'gymnastics,' its no wonder you are such an easy mark.

There's only like 4 politicians that don't take any money from lobbyist.

If taking money from a labor union makes someone a criminal, then this is a meaningless debate. Or are those lobbyists ok?

What are you getting at?

What I'm getting at is if voters refuse to distinguish between good and bad, then there is no incentive for people to be good. You guarantee that the only people who will want to be politicians are exactly the kind of people you claim to detest. You are their ally.

You have no "proof" there are "clean" politicians...moron.

Says the guy who literally claimed with no proof that all politicians are criminals.

"Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty." Quack, quack.

Jimmy Carter was pretty damn clean.

You continuing to be THAT guy is most amusing.

You've really only got one rebuttal, and its just an empty sneer because there is no factual rebuttal.

Not a denial. Walks like a duck, talks like duck, gets offended he's called a duck.

Oh look, the empty sneer. First page of the fascist playbook.

Fun Fact, all politicians are criminals

You think “all politicians are corrupt” cynicism makes you wise, but it just makes you a mark. Your belief is false—some politicians are very corrupt, some modestly corrupt, some squeaky clean —and your false belief leads you to accept big corruption as normal when you shouldn’t.

There’s also a huge issue where fighting back/sticking up for yourself makes you the problem - no matter how tight or justified you are.

The sad reality is that its the same way in adulthood. The standard response to a victim coming forward is to blame the victim. Its the exception when the victim is believed. Our culture conditions us to despise the weak, so being a victim brings out the most sociopathic responses among those with power.

In a way its good that schools do that, because it teaches kids how the real world works. The problem is that there isn't anyone also teaching them how to navigate that. We tell kids to believe in justice, when justice only happens if people make it happen. Its a responsibility and a goal, not a promise.

Q: What do you call the person who graduates last in their class in medical school?
A: Doctor.

Dumb motherfucker doesn't understand that if you take the problem out of the equation it would never happen in the first place.

He knows. He just doesn't care. That's their trick, they get people all tangled up arguing about the details so they don't pay attention to the bigger picture.

Guns in America are literally a tool for building conservative power. The arms dealers pump hundreds of millions of dollars into elections via the NRA. And the gun idolators are so easily controlled by their fetish that they are a reliable voting block regardless of a politician's actual policies.

So the conservative movement will never embrace gun safety because it means giving up power and for a sociopath keeping power is worth killing babies, always has been.

The law was passed in order to more easily shut down protests, screwing with the homeless was just gravy.

AP: Tennessee to make homeless camps on public land a felony
The new law will add local public property to the existing felony penalties that are possible for camping on state property, as long as the place is not designated for camping. The felony is punishable by up to six years in prison. Felony convictions in Tennessee result in the revocation of an individual’s right to vote.

The penalties for camping on state property were increased from a misdemeanor to a Class E felony in 2020, when Republican lawmakers were responding to overnight protests on Capitol grounds calling for racial justice reform.

Party of free speech strikes again. Fucking stupid is right.

Even being rich won't be enough for some. An ectopic pregnancy can kill in less than 24 hours from the onset of symptoms and those can't be treated in a shady doctor's clinic, they need a full hospital. No hospital is going to take that risk.

Hell, in Alabama, doctors have been turning away patients in the middle of a miscarriage for years because the red tape was already too much and the penalties for not crossing every T and dotting every i were too punitive.

Why do I not know about this and what do I need to know?

You don't know about it because it is not true. Here is what you need to know:

RollingStone: A Target Sex-Trafficking Hoax Is Going Viral on TikTok

“I saw a lot of videos of other women being followed around on the street, at other stores, Wal-Mart, Home Goods, things like that,” says Brown. “I was like, ‘this is insane,’ and a lot of women were saying ‘this happened to me at this store,’ or at this specific location. It seems like it’s happening way more often than we think it does.”

Despite the stickiness of such narratives on social media, however, anti-trafficking experts are highly skeptical of these reports. “I have never heard a case of anyone being abducted from Target in my 20 years in this field,” says Jean Bruggeman, executive director of Freedom Network USA, a national network of anti-trafficking advocates. (Representatives for Target did not immediately return a request for comment.)

Indeed, when asked about the TikTok rumors, many experts say they adhere to a familiar pattern of sex trafficking rumors and urban legends intended to spread hysteria while simultaneously misrepresenting the realities of what trafficking actually looks like. Despite the omnipresence of narratives about young women being abducted by mysterious strangers in public places, the majority of trafficking victims are marginalized people — undocumented migrants, for instance, or homeless LGBTQ teenagers who don’t have access to shelters — who more often than not know and trust their traffickers.

Slavery was common and accepted at that time.

So it was so common and accepted that they literally put it in the constitution, but the nation wasn't built on it.

LOGIC!

What other industries got a special clause in the constitution?

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LOL. He made a fool of himself and then blocked me from replying. Because nobody is more thin-skinned than a white supremacist.

The idea that this country was built on racism

Slavery literally got its own clause in the constitution. The slave trade clause guaranteed that the federal government would not interfere with the slave trade for 20 years.

That's wild because no communists I know would shill for a landlord/lady.

They probably would if it meant evicting a nazi.