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Our Town
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If it were Our Town
Someone might say
Robb Elementary School
Uvalde
Texas
USA
The Earth
The mind of God
Who did not go in?
Everyone
Except those set there already
Children
Teachers
Targets
The few outside who wanted
To go in
Were kept away
An issue of control?
Of quieting bureaucracy?
It really wasn’t so bad
In there?
I know it’s unknown ‘til the time
What we would do
I’d be terrified
And I might count on those with
Uniforms and guns
To lead the way
Until they didn’t
We have to remember all of this
I’m sorry, but we do
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C L Couch
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More than 350 responding police officers took a “lackadaisical approach” to the Uvalde school massacre while accused gunman Salvador Ramos, who had never fired a gun before, killed 21 people, according to a preliminary report from the Texas House released Sunday.
Two teachers and 19 students were gunned down inside Robb Elementary School on May 24 while police, armed with weapons and protective material, lingered outside the school, then in the hallway for 77 minutes.
In that time, Ramos, 18, laid waste to joint classrooms, firing more than 100 times from a military style AR-15 rifle.
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“You know the old chestnut…all roads lead to Uvalde.”
(image and caption by) formulanone from Huntsville, United States – Uvalde! Uvalde!, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77144919
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Our Town, the play by Thornton Wilder
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clcouch123 
July 19, 2022 at 3:30 pm
When will they read the 2nd Amendment? It prohibits the use of guns as they jeopardize the “security” of a “free state.”
July 20, 2022 at 7:07 pm
The amendment should be read in full–you’re so right about that–and appreciated in context. It’s about the safety of the state from outside threats. Militias were as, if not more, important than a national army. Now we have a national army and a National Guard.