The more information that comes out about the Texas elementary school shooting,

the worse the story gets.

I had generally refrained on this show from commenting on the reports that Uvalde cops

waited outside and even prevented other people from going in while the shooter was inside

wreaking havoc. I wanted to wait until more information came out and was confirmed.

Now that information seems to have been confirmed by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Hey, from the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision.

It was the wrong decision. There's no excuse for that. But again, I wasn't there,

but I'm just telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry at that

as soon as you can. Hey, when there's an active shooter, the rules change. It's no longer,

it's no longer a barricaded subject. We don't have time. You don't worry about matter primers.

And by the way, Texas embraces active shooter training, active shooter certification.

And that that doctrine requires officers. We don't care what agents you're from. You don't have

to have a leader on the scene. Every officer lines up, stacks up, goes and finds where those

rounds are being fired at and keeps shooting until the subject is dead. Period.

There you have it. Of course it was the wrong decision. People are calling the response

at youvaldy. Incompetent, cowardly, unconscionable. People want heads to roll. People want the department

defunded in some cases. They want whoever gave the stand-down order to get dragged before a judge

and put on an orange jumpsuit. I get it. But that does not concern me. That is not my call or your

call for that matter. That is for the people of youvaldy to decide what does concern us,

what concerns all of us is the central lesson of this horrible ordeal, namely that we cannot rely

on the cops to protect us. We cannot rely on the politicians to protect us. We have a right

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