The Department of Justice Explains Uvalde.

I have just downloaded and quickly parsed through the 575-page report about the May 2022 mass shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX which resulted in the deaths of 19 students, two adults and the shooter.

The report was conducted and published by the Community Oriented Policing Service of the Department of Justice and was released in conjunction with a press conference featuring the DOJ-COPS staff who out together the report, along with Attorney General Merrick Garland, whose presence in Texas for this photo op/PR exercise shows how busy he is these days.

Why do I sound just a bit miffed after waiting for more than a year for all the experts to tell us what we need both to know and to do in response to mass shootings like the shooting in Uvalde? Because you can read every goddamn word of this document and you won’t get even the slightest understanding of why Uvalde happened and how to keep Uvalde-type of rampage slaughters from happening again.

Before I explain the thinking which went into the previous sentence, for reasons of context, let me take you back to another mass school shooting which took place on the morning of December 14, 2012, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT.

That morning, a 20-year-old woke up, took a rifle out of the family gun safe and killed…