Absolute disgrace.

Two closed doors and a wall stood between them and an 18-year-old with an AR-15 who had opened fire on children and teachers inside the connected classrooms. A Halligan bar — an ax-like forcible-entry tool used by firefighters to get through locked doors — was available. Ballistic shields were arriving on the scene. So was plenty of firepower, including at least two rifles. Some officers were itching to move.

One such officer, a special agent at the Texas Department of Public Safety, had arrived around 20 minutes after the shooting started. He immediately asked: Are there still kids in the classrooms?

We all expected better, especially from Texas. The incident commander will have to live with this for the rest of his life.

Not enough, I prefer criminal charges be filed and jail time. Cowards of the highest degree.

there should be people down there go to jail or executed in the same way as those kids. I don't really see anything that wasn't suspected before today. The police down there didn't do their job.

I don't understand how grown men with guns could stand outside and do nothing while kids are being slaughtered, for my part there is no excuse for that. They were trained and took a job to do that very thing.

To be truthful, as I've posted several times here, the police have no legal obligation for another person's safety. There have been 3 SCOTUS decisions on this.

Now morally the police response is plain sinful. If I was a parent of one of those kids I would have a hard time not shooting that police chief. I the very least he needs to be beat down on the courthouse square . . . badly. It pisses me off badly to think of those cowards!