Now their inheritors show up at emergencies and the public throws bottles of urine at them. Men with families to live for, who rushed to their deaths on 9/11, because they believed in a system of honor and duty, in which they were destined to be guardians of the community men like Battalion Chief Edward Geraghty, 45, firefighters Alan Feinberg, 48, Jose Guadalupe, 37, Leonard Ragaglia, 36, Michael Lynch, 30, Christopher Santora, 23, and fellow heroes. We used to venerate men like the entire shift of 15 firefighters from Midtown’s Engine 54/Ladder 4/Battalion 9, whose fading photographs still face the heedless crowds on Eighth Avenue. They either are the first responders of 9/11 running toward danger to save strangers, men who strapped on oxygen tanks to climb 110 flights of stairs to their deaths - or they are not. Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News/Handout via REUTERS
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had its own six-strong police force and other security measures prior to the massacre. You can’t bully people to be brave or nag them into valor. Missing the pointīut armchair Twitter warriors, armed with minimal real data, ranting about cowardice and drumming up death threats for Uvalde police, are missing the point. If you were the desperate parents prevented by the cops from going inside the school to save your kids, your rage would be rightly insatiable. Instead, they had armed police officers milling about outside their classrooms, reportedly for over an hour, as blood flowed unchecked and innocent souls rose to heaven. Still, the shooter found an unlocked door, and the only thing that might have saved those children were men of courage and action rushing into the line of fire. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had its own six-strong police force, armed security guards, perimeter fencing and a locked classroom policy, according to a security plan posted on its website. Republicans fall back on hardening security to prevent more school shootings.īut little Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old gunman murdered 19 small children and two of their teachers last week, was already pretty hardened. Then we are shocked when armed cops stand around outside a classroom while children are slaughtered, or when straphangers watch passively as a woman is assaulted on the subway.ĭemocrats cynically demonize Republicans over guns as a motivator for their base. We vilify action men, brand chivalry and valor “toxic masculinity,” stamp on the manly virtues that made civilization possible. Majority of Americans approve of Elon Musk’s Twitter buyout, poll findsĪre Democrats and Joe Biden up to their old election tricks? Justice coming for the 'Dirty 51' Hunter Biden laptop liars
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