Has it occurred to anyone else that it was the rootin'-tootin', rompin'-stompin',

[Atticus]

rough-and-ready, gun-totin' Texas Rangers and their cowboy sidekicks who remained outside Robb School while screaming kids were murdered inside?

Seems like a lot of John Wayne wannabes were revealed to be Barney Fifes.

[Claire Oh Nette]

1. They aspire to Fife

They are Keystone Cops.

[uponit7771]

2. K&R, One mother jumped the fence and went in and got her kid

[WarGamer]

3. Were the Texas Rangers on site? I hadn't heard that...

I thought it was locals and eventually a CBP SWAT team.

[Irish_Dem]

5. It is metaphoric hyperbole but it works.

[WarGamer]

6. Texas Rangers are an actual organization like FBI, US Marshalls and California Highway Patrol.

But I think I see what you meant.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Yes I know.

I love reading and watching movies about the Texas Rangers.
They certainly are not the local police.

Did you know that two high ranking Texas Rangers came out of retirement in 1934, Frank Hamer and Maney Gault, to hunt down and kill Bonnie and Clyde?
Great movie, "The Highwaymen" tells the story.

I think the OP comparison paints a vivid picture. Dramatic, overstated, colorful.
And I think it is very legitimate point. Texas lawmen love their image as tough, badass, always gets their man.

But here we can clearly see Texas local police as disgraceful cowards who deliberately lock an armed madman in with 2nd graders and do nothing to help them.

[Atticus]

8. The guy in the Stetson who gave the last presser either is or used to be a Texas Ranger.

Not sure who else was there, but he said he was on the scene as it happened.

[Atticus]

11. Well, you certainly picked that nit. nt

[Atticus]

18. I own a cowboy hat. For the record, Escalon retained his Ranger commission when he accepted

his current post.

[kimbutgar]

4. Maybe they didn't want to lose their lives trying to save brown children.

Suspicious how the story keeps changing.

[msongs]

7. maybe they can all get jobs peddling "country" music nt

[kairos12]

12. He would have gone in and tried

with his one bullet. That was his ethic. In a bumbling way, he always tried to do right.

[dawg]

14. I came here to say this too.

Barney would've tried.

[paleotn]

17. Too busy.....

pissing their pants. Typical gun humpers

[dchill]

20. Barney Fife actually came through in the clinch.