Can you give me the Clif Bar Notes?
Basically slow-ass or no-ass response times. Hard to say at this point how much the “resource officer” (school security guard) on site added to the confusion by what he did or didn’t communicate to the other officers, but clearly there was a bit of “Wait outside because nobody knows WTF is happening” going on there. The sheriff in this case seems to be IMO overly reluctant to call any fault other than on the resource officer until the investigation is complete. It’s pretty clear the initial officers on the scene weren’t following any sort of plan, and that’s a problem. Now, it’s clear nobody other than the resource officer had the capability to actually reduce the fatalities, but slow response times even beyond the point at which they could have prevented anything really do not help paint a picture of a healthy law enforcement presence.
As for the red flag angle, the police are very limited in what they can do when no crime has actually been committed, and the Sheriff manages to explain that really quite badly. “Imminent” is a high legal hurdle – involuntary commitment is probably the only way the existing legal system could have realistically stopped this, and while I’d be easily persuaded that Nazism alone is a dangerous mental illness, I’m not the one that would need to be convinced for involuntary commitment to work (this is also a high legal hurdle). I don’t know if the existing legal system could have stopped this particular attack, but it’s very clear that it did not. Which is why people are so interested in changing laws as a result.
The part that seems like overreach to me is criticizing the Sheriff for criticizing the NRA. Tapper follows a bit of a “let he who is without sin cast the first stone” playbook, and of course that’s pretty nonsense, but Tapper plays the part pretty well and the Sheriff seems not to have anticipated the Pharisee angle of questioning.