Morning Jolt: Just What Happened in Uvalde?

On the menu today: Apparently, almost everything authorities told the public in the immediate aftermath of the Uvalde elementary-school shooting was wrong — and perhaps a reason this atrocity carried such an unbearably high cost in innocent lives was that the police delayed confronting the gunman, which contradicts the hard-learned lessons of Columbine and other mass shootings. Meanwhile, here in Houston, a rally to urge the mayor to cancel the NRA convention is quieter than expected and the mayor offered a spectacularly unrealistic proposal to delay the convention a few weeks; and finally, for the slow learners out there, a lesson on who actually sets the policies on guns when a president or former president is in a building.

Stunning Revelations from Uvalde

Quite suddenly, the horrific story of the Uvalde elementary-school shooting has shifted from questions about the gunman — why no one thought to report his strange and menacing behavior to police, and how he managed to obtain several thousand dollars' worth of weaponry and ammunition — to just what happened when he entered the school. The official accounts ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 27 2022 WITH JIM GERAGHTY May 27 2022 Just What Happened in Uvalde? On the menu today: Apparently, almost everything authorities told the public in the immediate aftermath of the Uvalde elementary-school shooting was wrong — and perhaps a reason this atrocity carried such an unbearably high cost in innocent lives was that the police delayed confronting the gunman, which contradicts the hard-learned lessons of Columbine and other mass shootings. Meanwhile, here in Houston, a rally to urge the mayor to cancel the NRA convention is quieter than expected and the mayor offered a spectacularly unrealistic proposal to delay the convention a few weeks; and finally, for the slow learners out there, a lesson on who actually sets the policies on guns when a president or former president is in a building. Stunning Revelations from Uvalde Quite suddenly, the horrific story of the Uvalde elementary-school shooting has shifted from questions about the gunman — why no one thought to report his strange and menacing behavior to police, and how he managed to obtain several thousand dollars' worth of weaponry and ammunition — to just what happened when he entered the school. The official accounts ...   READ MORE

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