The cowardly police force who did jack shit in Uvalde are now claiming the shooter had a "battle rifle," and the libs can't decide what retarded angle to take. They seem split between a few choices. Ironically, "ACAB" is the least objectionable when it comes to gun rights.
The other options are "hahaha, myth of good guy with gun busted," which ignores that at least these cops were bastards, and my favorite "hahaha, and they said there was no such thing as a battle rifle!" which ignores that...well, it ignores a fuckton.
There is a battle rifle. But the shooter didn't have one. The cops are just absolute retards. Everyone is spinning up over a comment by, and giving credence to, the people who fucked up in every way imaginable.
For a few examples:
"AR-15s" is trending on Twitter. Always a good time.
My favorite Reddit comments are the idiots saying they know a lot about guns, but all of them get it wrong. Calling M16s battle rifles. Talking about 5.56 vs 9mm penetration while ignoring tumbling. Acting like anyone ever claimed that there was no such thing as a battle rifle. The whole thing is amazing. The biggest mistake aside from their general ignorance, is taking the lying Uvalde cops at their word about 'battle rifles' and armor piercing capabilities, or that the existence of rifle could sensibly result in the tactical holdoff of a freaking army of (allegedly) trained law enforcement officers.
Here's a good one:
The gunnit line for years has been "AR-15 isn't an assault rifle, it isn't a military weapon, it's chambered for the same rounds as a handgun, it's a peashooter, it's harmless" apparently they don't believe that bullshit themselves and boy howdy am I not surprised.
For the first part, it's not an assault rifle, it's not military, and I've never heard the other load of nonsense. And then they finish by, once again, giving credence to a bunch of losers who stood around while kids were murdered. Yeah, I'll take their opinion on anything with a grain of salt.
Basically, Uvalde cops are shit, anti-gunners know they're shit, but will still believe their lies wholesale if it means they can hate on guns. Disgusting. And stupid, very stupid.
The irony here is that the armed cops “busting” this myth kept the unarmed populace out. If the people had guns and the will to use them, if armed citizenry and self-defense was the norm instead of this push for only police being allowed to wield force, they could have hypothetically gone in and got the shooter themselves.
“Good guy with a gun” isn’t the myth that got busted. “You don’t need a gun because the police will protect you” is the busted myth.
Again.
Fun fact about the uvalde shooter, there was actually a guy preparing to go in but If I remember correctly they arrested him instead. So the uvalde cops not only put children in danger through inaction they deliberately kept someone who was willing to do something out of the way.
Of course though, the anti-gun argument will be 'Oh hurr well we don't want some trigger happy weirdo getting involved and accidentally shooting the kid'. Okay, then why did the police fucking stand outside for ages before even doing anything to give the children a chance? Like others I smelled a glowie op with that particular shooting.
Also, bullshit on that point twice because I'm British. I've seen exactly what the fucking police do in any kind of dangerous situation. They mitigate damage, they do not intervene in a crisis. One of the best examples I can point to of this happening is when a high ranking police officer hid in a car while outside parliament no less a colleague got knifed to death by a terrorist.
I don't do the back the blue nonsense, they're human beings and unfortunately police officers are just basically an armed gang these days wearing blue colours who will always look out for themselves first. All the good ones in the U.S left their forces when the loyalty jab came along, UK police are all corrupt as shit or lefty activists and a lot of ex-boomer UK police who are very professional by comparison have been shocked at what they've found.
There was a hero that did go in: Jacob Albarado, an off-duty Border Patrol agent who borrowed his barber's shotgun, and he had to sneak in through a window because he saw the fuckwits blocking the doors.
It's real action movie shit, but since it makes the government look bad, don't expect anyone to make it.
Edit: Added the hero's name. He deserves that much, at least.
I think that's who I was thinking of, there was another person that go arrested though right?
I recall a concealed-carrying parent that tried to rush in, but I don't think the cops arrested him, just restrained him. The details from that goatfuck is hazy, sorry.