A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas on Wednesday morning, and no one stopped him for 12 minutes. How did the police not stop the shooter? Glenn Beck breaks it all down.
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00:07:21.680She drove 40 miles to Robb Elementary School.
00:07:25.680When she arrived, she said the cops were just standing outside the fence.
00:07:31.680They weren't going in or running anywhere.
00:07:36.680Now, she said officers inside the school were evacuating school students and the employees, as well as calling for backup.
00:07:44.680There was a lot going on, but nobody was going in to get the guy.
00:07:49.680Department of Safety officials previously said an armed school officer confronted, but we now know that's not true.
00:07:56.680Caitlin Martinez, a fourth grader at Robb Elementary, was playing with other kids during recess when he first appeared on school grounds with an AR-15 style rifle.
00:08:09.680We all ran in and they told us to sit down and they turned off the lights and locked the door.
00:08:36.680Was there anybody at the school with a gun?
00:08:39.680Was there any police officer, any safety officer with a gun?
00:08:44.680Caitlin said three police officers eventually came to the door of a room, which was near the end, which is near the end one in where Ramos locked himself in.
00:08:55.680They told us there was a gunman, so we had to evacuate and we had to run to the parking spaces outside.
00:09:02.680Ms. Gomez, a farm supervisor, was also waiting outside for her children.
00:09:06.680She said she was one of the numerous parents who began encouraging first politely and then with a little more urgency police and other law enforcement to enter the school sooner.
00:09:17.680After minutes, she said U.S. Marshals put her in handcuffs and telling her that she was being arrested for intervening in an active investigation.
00:09:28.680Ms. Gomez said she then convinced a local Uvalde police officer whom she knew to persuade the marshals to set her free.
00:09:37.680Spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service said we never put anybody in handcuffs.
00:09:47.680Our deputy marshals just maintained order and peace in the midst of grief stricken community that was gathering around the school, he said, quote.
00:09:55.680Ms. Gomez described the scene like this.
00:09:58.680She said she saw a father tackled and thrown to the ground by police and a third father pepper sprayed once freed from her cuffs.
00:10:08.680Once freed from her cuffs, Ms. Gomez made her distance from the crowd, jumped the school fence, ran inside, grabbed her two children and sprinted out to the school with them.
00:11:06.680Cut for there was multiple officers that arrived on scene.
00:11:09.680There was three officers that arrived that made entry at one of the entrances where the gunman actually made entrance to.
00:11:15.680We had other another four officers that made entry at the other entrance of the school.
00:11:20.680So there was officers inside that school as they were taking gunfire.
00:11:23.680They were also calling in for reinforcement, backup tactical teams, snipers, any additional personnel that could arrive to assist to not only with to with a situation,
00:11:34.680but also to assist in evacuating students and teachers at that time.
00:11:39.680That's when a US Border Patrol tactical officer arrived.
00:11:43.680Also with a Zavala County Sheriff's deputy, as well as two additional Uvalde Police Department officers were able to go into that classroom with a ballistic shield as cover.
00:11:54.680And of course, we know that one of those officers, an agent actually was was shot, was grazed on the top of the head, but they were able to shoot and kill the suspect.
00:12:03.680But don't current the best practices, Lieutenant, call for officers to disable a shooter as quickly as possible, regardless of how many officers are actually on site?
00:12:42.680And at that point, that gunman would have the opportunity to kill other people inside that school.
00:12:46.680So they were able to contain that gunman inside that classroom so that he was not able to go to any other portions of the school to commit any other killings.
00:12:55.680Yeah, but you knew where he was in the classroom.
00:13:49.680Because we've been given a lot of bad information.
00:13:51.680So why don't you clear all of this up now and explain to us how it is that your officers who were in there for an hour, yes, rescuing people, but yet no one was able to get inside that room.
00:14:45.680Law enforcement officers are investigating whether a retired federal agent had 30 minutes advance notice of a white supremacist plan to murder black people at a Buffalo supermarket.
00:14:58.680Two law enforcement officials have briefed the Buffalo news.
00:15:03.680Authorities believe the former agent, believed to be from Texas, was one of at least six individuals who regularly communicated with an accused gunman, Peyton Gendron, in an online chat room where racist hatred was discussed.
00:15:19.680The two law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the investigation stated these individuals were invited by Gendron to read about his mass shooting plans and the target location 30 minutes before the gunman arrived on the scene.
00:15:38.680The FBI has verified that none of the FBI has verified that none of the people that were on this chat room with him 30 minutes prior, none of them called law enforcement to warn about the shooting.
00:17:03.680This one, you see, uh, what is probably a fully automatic, uh, weapon in the hands of this, uh, uh, federal marshal.
00:17:15.680He is standing outside with the parents with a yellow plastic taser in his hand, getting ready to tase the parents.
00:17:26.680Why the hell did my tax dollars go to pay your salary, buy all of that tactical gear, all of your training, your body armor, and you're tasing the parents?
00:17:43.680When the average person doesn't have faith in anything, we arrive to the moment of the Bubba effect.
00:18:38.680You should care because they're going to be the ones that are taking care of the country after we're gone.
00:18:45.680They're the ones that in very short order are going to have to go out and make a living.
00:18:51.680And there is a real gap between the magical world where mommy and daddy and their teachers do everything for them and the real world when they have to take care of themselves.
00:19:01.680Every house should have this, uh, this book.
00:19:04.680That's why they're making it for free right now.
00:19:44.680It's a fascinating thing to watch this develop because it really started as the heroes of the police and the border patrol that did all these amazing things.
00:20:37.680The story that has affected me the most in all of these is the fact that the teacher who died with her students, her husband died and they left behind four children.
00:21:49.680So they went out on a limb immediately to try to take advantage of the shooting with politics and now are totally burned by that because their narrative has it was dumb anyway.
00:22:01.680But now we know the facts don't even support it.
00:22:04.680So it is important to make sure that we understand what occurred before.
00:22:08.680We don't need our narrative to be cemented today.
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00:25:30.680I mean, the only thing that I keep coming back to is the difference between, let's say, an active shooter situation and an inactive shooter situation.
00:25:38.680If you think about every hostage movie you've ever seen.
00:26:04.680The other thought is, you know, as dark as this is to think about, potentially he had already done the killing in this room and was barricaded in this room.
00:26:13.680And therefore, the thought from the police officers may have been, hey, let's evacuate all the other kids, get everybody else out of the rest of the school.
00:26:55.680So again, like it's as dark as it can possibly be.
00:26:57.680But you can see you can construct a scenario where they believe the most the smartest thing to do because there wasn't ongoing active shooting going on was to try to protect everyone else.
00:28:43.680I'm not the one that is turning every student in America into a protester.
00:28:53.680That would be you and the teachers unions.
00:28:56.680By the way, you also should check your facts.
00:29:00.680Yesterday, Colorado teenager pleaded guilty to multiple charges of murder in the 2019 school shooting outside of Denver that left one student dead, eight injured.
00:29:15.680Alec McKinney, who was born biologically a female, but identifies as a male pleaded guilty to 16 counts, including first degree murder and attempted murder and conspiracy to commit first degree murder after deliberation.
00:30:48.680And this is why this is why, you know, all the Democrats can be counted on not going for this solution, putting guns in schools, even though the majority of people agree with it.
00:31:20.680Our public schools should be the safest places for students and educators.
00:31:24.680Yet the gunshots from a lone shooter armed with a military grade weapon shattered the physical safety of the school community in Uvalde, Texas.
00:31:32.680You know what also is a military grade weapon at the time?
00:35:43.680Make special favors for all the people who have big money.
00:35:48.680You know, the government where you go to jail for something.
00:35:51.680But if somebody in the know, somebody that's popular, somebody that, God forbid, would do exactly the same thing or far worse in Washington.
00:36:18.680A government that says you're going to wear masks after the government says masks don't make any difference.
00:36:29.680I think that's a government out of control.
00:36:31.680And if that doesn't meet your bar, all the things that are going on, if this doesn't meet your bar, just wait until they take your guns away.
00:36:43.680No, that's not Christian or nationalism.
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00:38:32.680It came out last night about eight o'clock and that's for Blaze TV subscribers.
00:38:39.680So it's available now if you're a subscriber to Blaze TV and it'll be available everywhere tomorrow on YouTube or wherever you get your your podcast.
00:38:48.680I will tell you that no matter how you feel about Bill Barr, I asked him every question.
00:38:55.680I mean, I spent an hour and a half with him and you'll hear all of it unedited.
00:38:59.680And I asked him every question that I think you would want me to ask.
00:50:06.100Realities and how we heal from our country's wounds as spreading hate when really what it is like they don't want to be reminded of the hate that exists.
00:50:16.120And if we aren't willing to confront it, it's just going to keep growing.
00:52:41.120And so it would be weird—it just doesn't seem to add up, but if what you're saying is accurate, which I'm sure it is, that would certainly explain quite a bit.
00:53:24.000So the first question should have been, how do you arrive at those stats?
00:53:26.860Second thing, you also know the gun is not responsible.
00:53:31.620If the gun was responsible, then when we had these automatic weapons, which are not automatic, assault weapons, they're not assault weapons.
01:05:57.980We'll talk about it a little bit next week.
01:06:00.420I think Saving Nine, it's all about the Supreme Court and what they are trying to do to the Supreme Court and why it's so important that they don't win.
01:08:07.220Who have been adjudicated incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction.
01:08:10.820So, you have, first of all, California, just the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, just said that their under-21 gun restriction is unconstitutional.
01:08:21.520And I don't know how we can ask somebody who is 18 to go fight a war for us with a gun and a lot of dangerous things and lay down their life as a citizen for this country.
01:08:35.580And then when they come home, if they come home, you know, before they're 21, they don't have full rights of that citizenship.
01:08:42.280By the way, what do they lay down their life for their country holding?
01:08:45.620Their weapon of choice is a gun, so they can be trusted in that context but not elsewhere.
01:09:52.860Every time government expands, every time it extends its reach by passing a new law, it undermines liberty in one way or another.
01:10:00.380It doesn't mean it's always a bad thing, but it is a bad thing, typically, to legislate under intense emotion in the immediate aftermath of an emergency, a crisis.
01:10:22.980I believe the Supreme Court almost certainly has figured it out by now.
01:10:26.640I believe the Supreme Court probably figured out within a couple of days who the leaker was.
01:10:32.300And I suspect, don't know this, but I suspect what they're doing is they're wanting to wait until the end of the term, until after the Dobbs ruling has been announced before airing to the world who it was, because that might just add to the confusion, the discussion around it.
01:11:36.240The Supreme Court of the United States.
01:11:37.460Look, warts and all, they issue plenty of rulings that I disagree with, that I don't like.
01:11:41.680Our federal court system is the best of its kind in the world.
01:11:45.260And we benefit from it tremendously as Americans because of it.
01:11:49.500When you leak an opinion before it's out, trying to impact the outcome of that particular dispute, you undermine the credibility of the court.
01:11:59.960So, did they, do you think this changed or hardened the stance of this leak, hardened the stance of those that were for, you know, this, the leaked opinion?
01:12:14.800I hope, and I fundamentally believe that it will harden the stance of those who had already decided preliminarily to cast their votes with Justice Alito's masterfully written opinion.
01:12:29.760Anyone on either side of this issue should read that opinion because it is fantastic.
01:12:36.180Yeah, so now we have, let me go back again because I'm looking at what's coming, I'm building this to the nine justices that they're going to want to pack the court.
01:12:47.160We have a couple of cases that are just as strong as Roe v. Wade in their area, do we not?
01:12:58.440At New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Brune, a case in which I submitted an amicus brief, a friend of the court brief.
01:13:06.180Very significant issues related to the second.
01:13:08.920Which means what the argument is, New York, and I know it because I couldn't get a gun in New York, and I had 15 active threats on my life the entire time I was in New York.
01:13:21.600You have to prove that you have a need to carry a gun.
01:13:28.900You have to prove that you are different, differently situated than most citizens, and that you have this heightened need to it.
01:13:36.620What they're doing is taking a generally applicable right that the founding fathers gave us and said, okay, this obviously can't be for everyone.
01:14:01.100Anything else that's real controversial that you think they will?
01:14:05.300There are some administrative law decisions coming out that I hope, I suspect, could end up having some bearing on the ability of executive branch agencies, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats to make law.
01:14:17.100Okay, but the real, the gun one and abortion will, could ignite the streets and then also start a push for packing the court.
01:14:31.040And Glenn, that's why I wrote my book, Saving Nine, which is available on pre-order now.
01:14:36.500You can buy it on Amazon now, Saving Nine.
01:14:38.180And I started writing this over a year ago because I predicted this very thing happening.
01:14:43.240I started thinking, I realized, my gosh, we could end up in a situation by the summer of 2022 where Roe gets overturned.
01:14:52.180And in response to that, the left will try to demonize and delegitimize the court and isolate those who have voted for it.
01:14:58.980And they're going to go back to their tried and true playbook of 1937 where they tried to pack the court.
01:15:03.440Now, I explained in Saving Nine how it is that this backfires, this backfires on the best judicial system in the world.
01:15:13.140Why it is that in 1937, the last time the Democrats tried this, it left a lasting mark, a mark that has caused all sorts of problems in our government ever since then.
01:15:22.540The threat of court packing, even though it didn't succeed there, influenced the court.
01:15:28.140It harassed and intimidated the court to the point that the court deferred blindly to FDR and changed the law.
01:15:35.280So FDR did this, but the Democrats, generally speaking, were against it.
01:15:39.980It was the Democrats that were fighting, along with the Republicans, fighting FDR on this.
01:15:48.440And, in fact, the very same Democrats who have, for decades, decried court packing, they're ashamed that their party did this, are now changing course.
01:16:27.020Because this is, once you lose this, you're done as a nation, are you not?
01:16:33.420Well, yeah, you're done at least as a nation that lives under the rule of law.
01:16:37.480Because in order for the rule of law to work, in order for a Republican form of government to work in a constitutional republic like ours, you do have to have a neutral, independent arbiter of what the law means when people disagree as to the law's meaning.
01:16:53.540You lose that if you pack the court, because the court then becomes a political football.
01:16:57.980It stops resembling a court and starts to resemble the intergalactic Senate in Star Wars with so many people that can't be managed.
01:21:13.900So my colleague, Senator Rick Scott from Florida, has come up with a legislative plan.
01:21:17.620My legislative plan for if we get the majority focuses first and foremost on passage of the RAINS Act, which involves RAINS Act is a very simple thing.
01:21:28.460It just says our laws, laws that affect the American people have to be passed by the people's elected lawmakers and not unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.
01:21:58.760Powers that you don't know the government has because the people have never given up that power because they've never elected anyone who gives the power to some nameless, faceless bureaucrat who, while well-educated, hardworking and well-intentioned, doesn't work for you.
01:22:41.400It is a fascinating podcast, and you need to listen.
01:22:44.260I asked him all the questions that I think the audience would want to ask and the ones that I wanted to ask, and he didn't have a problem answering any of them.