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It might also be a factor that Uvalde is a fairly small town way out in the middle of the West Texas wasteland, pop. about 16,000. It's a virtual certainty that the majority of those cops hadn't even drawn their weapons in years, even decades. Most of them probably spent more time at the local Dunkin' Donuts than they did at the range. My CHL instructor used to be an armorer for a big city police department, and he regularly saw LEO's guns that were so gunked up with non-use they wouldn't function. I seriously doubt that these guys had the psychological wherewithal to go storming into that building like Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos.

It's a tough situation. The typical classroom doorway is VERY heavily built. In the time it takes for you to read this sentence, a dozen kids could be killed.