If You Want Protection for Your
Loved Ones, Do It Yourself

Police in Uvalde, Texas, face a barrage of criticism for delays in confronting the shooter who slaughtered children and teachers last week. Officials admit law enforcers screwed up; worse, they impeded parents who wanted to intervene, leaving the crime to be ended by agents who ignored police orders. As politicians rush to leverage tragedy to advance legislative agendas, we're reminded again that it's foolish to place our trust in authority or to surrender our ability to protect ourselves and our loved ones.

"From the benefit of hindsight, where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision," Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, admitted of police choosing to wait for backup and equipment before intervening in a massacre that took the lives of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers. "It was the wrong decision, period. There's no excuse for that."

That decision delayed the response for over an hour. Finally, a Border Patrol team that drove 40 miles to the scene defied orders and stopped the shooter's rampage.

"Federal agents who went to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday to confront a gunman who killed 19 children were told by local police to wait and not enter the school — and then decided after about half an hour to ignore that initial guidance and find the shooter," noted NBC News.

The feds weren't the only ones willing to intervene. Instead of taking on Ramos, local police tackled, pepper-sprayed, and handcuffed parents rather than allow them to take action at which officers balked.

"The police were doing nothing," said Angeli Rose Gomez who was briefly arrested for challenging official indecision. .....