Misplaced scrutiny for the Uvalde disaster

THE POLICE HAVE NO LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY TO DEFEND ANYONE

THE SHOOTER AND THE PERSON WHO PROPPED OPEN THE DOOR DESERVE BLAME

While we see the distraction of  blaming the police for the deaths in the tragedy of the Uvalde massacre. There seems to be no investigation as to who left the door open, most likely a routine practice by the smokers at the school. A practice that the shooter may have had knowledge about. We can assume there is no smoking allowed in the school, maybe it would be better to have a smoking room for teachers.

Then of course, we are blaming the gun and the police, for not being willing to sacrifice themselves and have a postmortem hero's ceremony. 

The real guilty are the shooter, a product of our present dysfunctional society and whoever engaged in breaching the security at the school.

I have been hearing from usually rational people that the police should have been willing to sacrifice as many as needed to be pilled up in the doorway to stop the shooter. I guess we owe this mentality to decades of westerns and police movies where there are countless heros. The reality is few are willing to sacrifice themselves without a strong chance of survival. With the anti-police fervor in the nation, we can expect the best and brightest to exit this occupation and we we will be left we those likely to be even less dedicated.

Of course again we need to outlaw the tools used to kill, another distraction. Killing can be accomplished in many ways. 

Then there is the naive idea that the police can protect you from those intent on mayhem. First off, many have tried to sue the police for lack of protection, it is precedent that the police have no legal obligation to protect you. They do have an obligation to investigate the crime and apprehend the evildoer. The legal system has an obligation to prosecute and punish those who break the law, but even that is now coming into question.

The reality is, you are the most responsible person to provide protection for yourself and your loved ones. A reality as old as human existence. A very scary and insecure thought for most.

No one is willing to find a true cause of the senseless mayhem in this country, because it is now a deep seated result of no family, no real parenting, a society gone amouk for decades with bazaar ideas concerning the realities of a stable society. A rejection of the tried and true methods by which a safe society is possible. Much of it encouraged by those who would like to use this chaos to gain more political power and a population increasingly willing to accept anything in the name of safety.