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Source: The Texas Tribune: Amid fallout from the Uvalde shooting, Texas DPS wants $1.2 billion for academy and active-shooter training facility.
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/11/23/texas-dps-active-shooter-training/
unfuckingbelievable
dabydeen
America has so many mass shootings, you'd think a training facility isn't necessary
dudehiemer
Uvalde had better gear than I did as a US soldier. They took up 40% of the town's budget. You're not going to fix it with more money.
OmenJones
MandalorianHybrid1
As a Texan, fuck this. Reinstate the fucking gun laws that allowed this to happen and make them stricter. Fucking Abbott! Christ I hate him!
zubax
So this way, they can afford a NASA grade telescope to watch kids get murdered. From a very safe distance.
allthenamesaregone
"Oh hey so, it turns out, we weren't like... actually training cops... We were just arming them. So now we want more money for training."
BokchoyIsAWhiteVegetable
Meaning $1.999B goes into "someone's" pocket while the rest goes into actual training. Just like how Joel Osteen's church operates.
RussianMafia1337
*America, while continuing to slaughter school kids*. "Ya know what will fix this? More guns."
Spoonylegs23
The issue is mental health care is inaccessible to most people, and guns being used in these incidents is a side effect.
RussianMafia1337
Nope. The issue is the gun laws. Trust me. -said every other country ever
ThatSonOfaBitch
nvstrfx3
The fuck is wrong with these people?
ChewyTheWookie
There's a Drag Show club in Colorado that could offer experienced training in the use of some actual balls in the face of violent losers.
fractalsphere
Let's put that 1.2 billion, say... ANYWHERE ELSE BUT INTO THE POLICE BUDGET
TheWarHymn
You could build like a hundred new libraries with that kind of money...
Lomish
Anything to avoid gun laws!
TacoPoweredHelicopter
Or mental health.
Heavenissize17socks
I'll bet you a dollar this is why the police chose to not engage the shooter. 'What's 21 lives vs a 1.2 -billion dollar training facility?
brianingram
I'm jaded af, but ... hell
HeirElfSquire
No. If the gravy cops need to learn to be cop...they need to be fired and they can try again somewhere else.
beaubrent
You can’t train courage and you can’t train away cowardice.
TheLastSpaceman
EXCUSE ME?!
KungFuAnimeJesus
To be fair, they weren’t properly trained on how to set up lawn chairs while they wait.
kaminekochan
The practice facility doesn't work if you don't go inside it.
MrStealUrMeme
Practice at the schools where active shooter situations would occur. That way they know how to open the doors, and how to enter classrooms
ronswansonsbrother
Huevos not included
northernmt
I'm sure there will be an amazing coffee hut in the parking lot
DoIactuallyneedaUserName
JeremyPeevin
Of course they'd go inside it! It's a $1.2 bil facility with nothing dangerous in it! Not a cheap classroom filled with children.
TattoosAndTENS
How is this not the top comment
ohgodthehorror
Right?
OmenJones
clearlyselfloving
ACAB for real tho
JohnnySilverballs
NewToTheEnterwbs
UmamiMama
Oh brother.. they need qualified ppl, not training. What a fucking joke
Voojagig
Didn't the Uvalde PD literally brag on social media about their active shooter training days before the shooting?
evilspyre
Yup
Hawkgirl203
And here they are with all their real cool gear.
staceyjorgenson31415
RequineCounts
Does someone print this as stickers? I live in tx and would love to cover the stickers on cars with this version
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TheScotchKraut
Ok? What does that have to do with the comment you replied to?
basicisaac
I guarantee you I was replying to a different comment. Have no idea why it’s here, did they delete it when I was replying?
VosperOfAntarctica
The entire state is an active shooter training facility. Oh, you mean to defend AGANST it
Spoonylegs23
To be fair the cops won't go in. But I'm sure retired vets and would likely rush that building. If I recall someone did.
swedeonamoose
Pretty sure Texas have some large abondened building that could easily be converted for the purpose for like 1/6th the cost.
MrStealUrMeme
Or train at the actual schools during the summer. Get familiar with the rooms/structures of the actual places school shootings could occur.
emilytangerine8910
No. Defund.
Hurro
Maybe put 1.2 billion into mental health and you won't need the cops?
SubTrout
Pigs beg for money for fancy new slop pit I see.
HelaSisterOfThor
Just stop. Fix gun control and stop wasting time and lives.
tlamstrike
Unfortunately all the money from big gun control goes in to trying to pass AWBs and now pistol bans rather than programs that work.. 1/2
tlamstrike
..like community outreach, actual gun safety (like locks and safes), education, and mental health services. 2/2
CosplayComet
Weren't they already trained? Didn't they post pictures of them FROM the training like, 2 WEEKS before this event?
evocatiranch
Yes. Post Parkland Obama made every single department train for this, everyone in the entire nation.
Bibidibop
And after the attack they claimed they lacked the training
SarahDancePainter
Yes but this facility comes with a cafeteria
Ihatedecidingonausername
Probably a Dunkin donuts
NeverEnoughFoxes
Just because you know how to do something doesn't mean you have the balls to actually do it.
EverNotRelevant
Then why do we even have police
WhyDontYouMakeMe
inkasep1
To shoot black people, duh. /s
GodsWorkSon
can't have *them* stepping out of line /s
EverNotRelevant
Scahrossar
That doesn' t need a /s, as its basically the truth.
inkasep1
Well no, it's what they're used for currently, not what their purpose is. It's just that they haven't lived up to their purpose in god knows
ThatRaccoonGuy
Bunch of turd standing around with The Punisher stickers posting selfies on social media while children die, they need more money obviously.
MatrimBloodyCauthon
They need people to go after them and give them consequences is what they need.
exlurker42
The phone guy with the punisher logo was checking b/c they forbid him to go in and his wife was a teacher. He wound up being disarmed 1/2
exlurker42
1/2 and removed because he wanted to go anyway b/c he hadn't heard from her. I have deep issues with their response but he's not the villain
HillOfBeans
He could have gone down that hall at any time. I wouldn’t just leave my family hanging, or anyone else’s kids.
exlurker42
Sure, then you'd be stopped, disarmed and removed by all the people around you. Same as he was.
Djkb6718
Or maybe just stop giving out guns & ammo to complete fuck wits. License / insurance for all gun owners.
tlamstrike
My state made rumblings about needing insurance for owning a gun. The NRA partnered with an insurance company and made it happen... 1/5
tlamstrike
..My state then declared it 'murder insurance' and got it banned. This is despite the fact that insurance cannot pay out money for.. 2/5
tlamstrike
..illegal activities (incl. murder). We also have a license system, that got started in the 1910s when Italians started buying guns.. 3/5
tlamstrike
..to protect themselves from the mob and the government didn't like that so they made a licensing system where they could just deny.. 4/5
tlamstrike
..you a license for no reason; it took till 2021 for that old racist law to be overturned by the courts. 5/5
ThatRaccoonGuy
Fucking hell. the police in uvalde had more armor and high-tech gadgets than I had in the Army and I wasn't allowed to say no to combat.
luxter7
Wow!Thank you for your service
djj25
The last place that should get that kind of funding is Texas. Plus training will not give them spines
iDrinkDrano
Maybe they can buy a pair of balls with this.
TsubakiTragic
That, my dear friend, is a magnificent descriptor of a system gone terribly wrong.
MapleSyrupMafia
And they bragged about practicing an active shooter exercise in a school... Why would they need a facility for that?
Fedotia
I've yet to see grunts in hurry-up-and-wait drills looking as relaxed as the pigs while dildoing around the school.
OriginalAndWitty
Anything but the guns, literally deflect deflect deflect than enact new gun control laws. FFS.
afterdarkart
And the police were in there the week before doing these drills. Fuck. OFF. With your bullshit, Texas.
XXXSpork
They had everything they needed except a single backbone
knotch2
Bravery doesn't cost money. Next time be brave like the people in the gay bar that stopped a shooter. The PD in uvalde have no excuse.
YummyBubb1es
"Hey guys! We were fucking useless the first time, give us a billion dollars to continue being fucking useless!"
TrumpRapesChildren
Same. When we had guys in trouble nobody stood around saying "no way I'm not going in there". I've carried them on my back, and dragged them
TrumpRapesChildren
But never did any of us responding QRF Ever chicken shit out on our guys n gals. They called for help? Brother helps is ON THE WAY.
ThatRaccoonGuy
Incredible. Thank you.
f3n1x187
Ship them to boot camp a little bit?
wrxnefx182
Boot camp doesnt prepare you for combat. Not even a little bit.
JohnnyLawlessEsq
1) This is the biggest change that needs to be made with American police. If they want to play soldier, they should have to...
JohnnyLawlessEsq
2) have the responsibilities of soldiers. Even as a paramedic I have a legal duty to act. Cops have no such duty, and that's a real problem.
HunterZer0
THIS
ThatRaccoonGuy
I can't even IMAGINE anybody in my unit pussying out because of one teenager with a gun. Jesus christ fuck the police, they're useless.
YummyBubb1es
They're just making excuses for being giant pussies. The untrained parents were more ready to breach that room than the police
knotch2
Military you are taught for the greater good, protect eachother. I have no clue why police aren't.. they protect rich people's stuff.
SleventyEleventy
They are, that's the problem. The 'each other' is other cops. Police shouldn't train like an army, they should train like social workers.
StSword1
Police training like an army would be an improvement, problem is they are trained like the mafia.
SleventyEleventy
No, armies make terrible police, armies are trained to destroy enemies, police need to serve a community, police are already too military
end100
TIL the us police are trained
grumpabeme
Thank you for your service- I have been in many ICS training classes that reference this incident. Take aways were always the same- you 1/
grumpabeme
can’t train those that pass water in an emergency.”
ThatRaccoonGuy
They're real good at acting tough and powerful when 8 of them are pulling over one black man and strangling him to death though.
ThisIsYourLifeNow
grumpabeme
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” - Mike Tyson. Police training needs to get away from “Posture first, react second