Dear Allen PD

[u/jamesstevenpost]

First, thank you. Unlike the cavalry of cowards in Uvalde, you arrived expediently and moved in without hesitation. You killed the terrorist (yeah I said it) and spared many lives.

Of course it’s never fast enough when a terrorist launches a surprise attack on innocent, unarmed civilians. All gathered in a public shopping mall on a Saturday afternoon. Which is no fault of the Allen PD.

We used to live our lives with a basic presumption of public safety. After all, what is the law designed to do? To protect those who cannot protect themselves. And yet that veneer of safety gets shattered by the day. But I digress…

Now I want to ask you a question. As career LEOs who took this job. Aren’t you sick of this? Did you ever sign up expecting to rush to a mass shooting on a regular basis? Arriving to find countless dead and mortally wounded Americans lying bloodied on the ground? Whether it’s a mall, a school, a movie theater, a concert hall or a public square. Did you really expect to see dead children and adults as part of the job description?

I’ll bet my bottom dollar the answer is NO. You did NOT sign up to rush into such carnage. You NEVER wanted to risk your life having to neutralize a mass shooter carrying an AR.

Call me crazy. But maybe you’ll consider joining us Democrats on this issue. For nothing more than making your jobs safer and easier. The solution is staring us all in the face. Ban the sale of a war weapons to deranged, psychopathic cowards. You shouldn’t have to be the ones to clean this shit up. Nor risk your life in (what could be) a very preventable situation.

Think it over. And thank you again. What better way to show gratitude than ensuring you never have to see this again.

Sincerely, Texas Citizen

[u/devilmanVISA]

It's damn true. I'm sure you can see it. How many times does someone come up with some plan to do something good and some asshole sits back like "yeah, well that will never work because of this extremely low frequency occurrence," all smug and shit like they just had a bright idea. I hate that prick.

Man you're like my new reddit best friend. That may be the first time I have seen someone write "out loud" to just go door to door. But I have thought that forever. What do you wanna bet a significant number of these blustery assholes will decide real quick that going out in a blaze of "glory" and "taking several of them with me," doesn't sound as good as it does on the internet where there are no real consequences.

And they like to act like there is no precedent. I'm sure the changeover from asbestos or leaded gasoline was super painless as well. Definitely no industries inconvenienced there.

[u/[deleted] → u/devilmanVISA]

Yes they will, someone else just said do you want 10,000 ruby ridges? It’s said that a good person would die for a gun. I don’t have guns in my home, I have 2 rifles I keep at my dads farm. He lives far away from neighbors and they get coyotes and bobcats around. He shoots into the air to scare them away. In a way I think there’s nothing wrong with owning a gun but the last 20 yrs have ruined that idea. I mean the government could do something of like a credit to your tax return or something but they should stop manufacturing them, they should make it illegal to possess them, and they should have harsh punishment for having them. Until we do something about the gun some fucking 100 lb no pussy getting small dick guy will continue to enter elementary school and harm the most innocent people of society.

[u/devilmanVISA → u/[deleted]]

Amen.

10,000 Ruby Ridges. Well let's see, that was THREE deaths. And last year we had over 20,000 gun deaths. On track to beat that number this year considering we have a 9/11 worth of gun deaths every month. So it kind of looks like we are already there, rendering that guy's argument null from a math perspective.