I think most of the readers and commenters here would begin by agreeing that disarming the people who did NOT shoot anybody looks pretty stupid, except to people with media-induced hoplophobia, and there are millions of those unfortunates, but the idea that a kid could be so drug or otherwise addled that he would go and shoot up a bunch of little kids is not to be believed. Somebody help me here with the term for this,, but it describes a a tendency to believe that whatever was normal in the past will continue to be normal in the future. Telling people with an established fear of the government that it is dangerous to believe that government when they tell you to get on a freight train to an unknown destination is another very well-known example of this. I think it was our own dear Neo who described it thus. “You get on a train. You get off the train. They gas you” Who would have believed this? But, of course, it did happen. I would hope that nobody would believe that, now. However, hope is not a basis for policy.

Nevertheless, whatever else was going on, it took a member of the Border Patrol, a well trained Federal agency, to end the massacre. Even the local and UISD cops, many of them military veterans, seemed to suffer from some sort of mental paralysis. I can believe that some of the men were frightened, but all of them? Just not likely at all. Stopping parents from entering the school to rescue their children is beyond crazy. I don’t understand it. Nor can I understand why or how the perp shot in through the windows, but nobody shot at him the same way? Whaaat?

I know that, when Whitman was shooting at people from the top of the UT Tower, students went to their dorm rooms and got their rifles and came out and shot at him from three sides of the Tower, keeping him pinned down so that Austin police could come out of the elevators and get him from both sides. However, let the record show that it took about an hour and a half for this response to organize itself. Who can say how long it would have taken to get up something like this, when there were kids inside, and everyone was petrified with fear of hitting one of them, and the cops were actually, actively blocking this sort of action?

Uvalde Groundhog Day.

sigh.

It’s easy to take a photo with a timer.

Investigators have tracked his money and know how he made it, when and where he made deposits, what he bought, when he bought it, where he bought it, and how he paid. There is no mystery about the money part whatsoever. And he did it alone.

Gee, so a hispanic male is
protected” from the “school to prison pipeline”, until he uses that to kill people

Then the response is to demand “red Flag” laws that will never be applied to the people who are actually the threats.

You have to be somewhat organized to be in the mental health system; student, involved parent, so forth, so it’s possible he would have qualified or needed help and wasn’t getting it. So we wouldn’t necessarily know, as we do wrt Lanza and the Colorado theater shooter, and several others whether he was clinically nuts.

The drug question is quite apt considering what’s out there and the different results in different individuals.

But, still, as with other cases, there is evidence of planning–not as much as the Buffalo shooter but some–which means a certain rational capacity to accomplish a goal.

See, as has been said, 1964. 240,000 M1 carbines dumped by the military into the civilian market. Small rifle firing a small round, semi-auto. The thirty round mag developed for the M2 carbine fit the M1. The NRA would sell you one for twenty bucks as a premium for joining. Ammo was a drug a the market. Assault weapon to perfection (some purists objected as the cartridge wasn’t necked down).

Nothing like this happened. Nothing.

Was he a “mule” for a cartel? Was he getting cash for playing as a sex toy for someone in the area? The savage violence does suggest the involvement of stimulant drugs, in addition to “crazy”.

It was used in Aachen (Doubler p. 100) and on the Siegfried Line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M12_Gun_Motor_Carriage#Use

When I was in, a dedicated shaped charge, not small, had been developed. Make a heck of a hole, but a couple were a heck of a load.