Left-wing media is trying to turn the Uvalde, Texas tragedy in May 2022 into an advertisement for strict gun control and a ban on one of the most popular recreational firearms on the market using lies.
The Texas Tribune and ProPublica co-published an article on Monday claiming that Uvalde police officers waited outside the elementary school classroom where they knew kids were being slaughtered for more than an hour because they feared the lone teenage gunman’s AR-15.
“Once they saw a torrent of bullets tear through a classroom wall and metal door, the first police officers in the hallway of Robb Elementary School concluded they were outgunned. And that they could die,” Tribue politics reporter Zach Despart writes in the article’s first sentence.
The only evidence Despart provides for this is a series of quotes from various officers who reportedly claim they “weren’t equipped to make entry into that room without several casualties” and they “had no choice but to wait and try to get something that had better coverage where we could actually stand up to him.”
This hesitation aided in the deaths of several of the 19 students and two teachers who, if given proper medical care or defense in the hour officers waited outside the classroom doors, could have survived.
Cowardly Cops Get A Scapegoat
From the very beginning of the article, Despart attempts to sell a lie that even his own publication previously debunked. The hundreds of Uvalde officers who responded to Robb Elementary on
