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but were delayed in reaching the school because the streets were crammed with law enforcement vehicles.

I've been a paramedic for 12 years. If I had a dollar for every time I saw this exact thing, I wouldn't be a paramedic. This was also a big problem at the Aurora shooting, and probably others.

Hi there! I'm a paramedic, it's interesting to see an analysis of this shooting. I really enjoy reading the after-action reports for Mass Casualty Incidents because it's consistently one of the things that the fewer systems or providers are prepared for. There's definitely a tendency for folks to say "ah, that can't/won't happen here". As a side question, is there an after action report available for Uvalde?

This reads to me like a bungled application of the Incident Command System, which seems to be like it's largely the responsibility of the organizations involved for not being familiar with using ICS. A well-implemented ICS definitely helps to lubricate inter-agency operations because it helps each service be aware of what they need to do to help each other. In my opinion, the Las Vegas shooting or the Boston Bombing is a really great example of ICS in action. So here's the question:

Do you agree that this is largely a training issue? And since a lot of rural EMS and Fire resources are volunteer, what do you think can be done to improve mass casualty incident training?

The thing is that you can't solve a housing shortage without building more housing, and it's hard as heck to build enough single family homes to house everybody. What's more is that concerns about traffic are much easier to mitigate in high-density mixed use zone by just improving public transit and walkability instead of forcing everyone to drive. On the other hand, it's a lot harder to solve traffic issues when single family housing forces everyone to need a car; you either end up spending far more than you'll ever make back on bloated and underused public transit or you'll fall victim to 'just one more lane, bro' disease.

Cars aren't ever fully excluded from the equation. Even in the Netherlands, which is like the mothership of r/fuckcars, people still use cars. It's just that cars are part of many possible transport solutions there, instead of being practically the only transport solution. Cars are fine, it's car dependency that's the problem, I think that bit gets lost in communication a lot. Car dependency and auto-centric infrastructure have a lot of problems, not least of which includes climate change.

Not many people talk about how literally 99% of spree murderers (the larger set that spree shooters are a part of) are men. Of course, that's not to say that all men are spree murderers. There's actually some really interesting behavioral psychology on the matter