You wouldn't call the cops who hide in the hallway but you fully believe that most cops will hide in the hallway. You'll need that special 911 for hero cops, rather than that 911 for the regular ones.

No mass shooter was ever stopped by anyone who was without a gun.

You're witnessing a mass shooting and you're not calling the cops. Ok. What are you doing then?

It's not possible. Not only because of the size of the country and number of guns, but because people don't want what you want.

In the end, the bad guy was shot and killed by someone who is apparently not a good guy with a gun.

Magical thinking. Broad disarmament is not a possibility in the US. Legal issues aside, there are far too many in a country far too big. Instead of pipe dreams, we should consider real solutions given the physical, legal, and social realities on the ground.

Your post showed in my alerts as a response to my post pointing out to lipek that most police officers are not Democrats, as was asserted. To that post, yours appeared irrelevant and needlessly insulting. Could be my mistake.

Not partisan, so that's half true.

The quality and relevance of your responses has really declined since I've been away.

Black poverty rates were declining despite Jim Crow which, incidentally, ended generations ago.

I'm sure you believe that. But it was the Great Society and other such measures that have held black and poor people in poverty for generations.

The problem is that you don't believe they CAN overcome their past. You favor policies that hold poor people in their impoverished state while you claim they need more from the nanny state that holds them down. That's the old paternalism of the slave days reinvented by modern Democrats. Those lower expectations are based on race. There's a word for that.