Some nuts details coming out about the behaviour of the cops around this.
There are stories that the gunman crashed his car outside the school and an armed guard decided to hide from him as he thought the guy was wearing body armour (he wasn’t, he had an empty body armour harness on him), they left the guy inside for 30-40 minutes while the police stood stopping parents going in to try and protect their children, they say that the guy barricaded himself in a classroom, he actually locked the door behind him and the cops couldn’t break it down, instead they had to go and find a staff member to come and open it for them with a key.
This county spends 40% of its annual budget on the police.
Gotta keep the momentum going I guess. Although these don't have as many (dead) victims as the school and supermarket shooting so less likely to make the big news.
"SB1327, coauthored by Portantino and Sen. Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys (Los Angeles County), was the brainchild of Newsom, who proposed it in December after the Supreme Court allowed Texas to enforce its abortion law. That law allows Texans to sue anyone who performs or aids an abortion in the state for $10,000, plus attorneys’ fees, if the abortion occurred after the start of cardiac activity, about six weeks into a pregnancy.
“If that’s the precedent then we’ll let Californians sue those who put ghost guns and assault weapons on our streets,” Newsom said on Twitter after the court issued its decision.
The Senate approved the bill on a 24-10 vote and sent it to the Assembly."
The alarmist in me suggests this is how the USA will start on the journey to ditching the U and just being a bunch of desperate hinterlands and sanctuarial city-islands squabbling with eachother; the bastard in me also relishes the prospect of American balkanisation.
Will be generations before they're able to repair this kind of administrative damage, in any case. Broken polity.
America is just truly fucked. There are such deep roots of white supremacy, and male white supremacy in particular, that it seems that there is no chance of them sorting their shit out without bloody conflict.
Add to that the insanely pro profit anti anything else corporate lobbying machine and dependant politicians and it's almost impossible.
For balance, I follow a few DSA types, and there is a lot of good being dome at local level. City council candidates beating long term incumbents who never did anything, employees successfully unionising even in places like Amazon and Starbucks, winning progressive ballot propositions and defeating corporate ones.
National and state level is absolutely fucked, but local grass roots is looking bright.
The divide between the South, and some centre, states is going to broaden even more now. A civil war in the next decade wouldn’t surprise me at this point. As has been said many times, America is fucked.
I I think that is why conflict is almost inevitable. The majority don't want things to be the way they are, nor to continue in the direction it is going. The problem is that a powerful minority has twisted the mechanism of governance so much that it's almost impossible to implement policy or legislation that people actually want if it goes against this powerful minority's interest.
Things are only going to get worse as republican plans to put in place mechanisms to deny voting rights to undesirables, gerrymander even more, and ignore the popular vote, make unpopular minority rule even more obvious.
You're not going to get an Actual Civil War without competing economic systems and wealth bases (as per the first one), but I guess that could emerge sooner rather than later.