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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Anniversary of the storming of the Waco compound as well. Between that and Oklahoma City it's pretty much a far-right national holiday. That said, it would be very dangerous to draw that as a conclusion without more evidence.
As far as the warning systems goes, definitely a big fail. But I think that was more an inertia thing than anything else. Officials have used Twitter as their go-to source for mass communication for years - and look at pretty much any mass shooting in the US. It's the same thing: twitter alerts. The SMS alert system is still new enough in Canada that it was likely still represented just a little to out of the box thinking for whomever would have had the capability to use it. Unfortunately, it is always so common that lessons such as this are learned in blood.
And yes, suggesting criminal charges for failing to utilize the system IS too extreme. Sorry Mickey76, but what you want isn't justice, but vengeance. And since you can't take it out on the killer, you're just flailing about for someone else to suffer in proxy.
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You are probably right but I really don’t intend this to be vengeance. I am extremely tolerant, forgiving for any decision made in the heat of the moment. Even with high levels of training situations like Las Vegas and Columbine must be nearly impossible to react to properly. But if I reading the reports right they had 9 hours. 9 Hours. This is way past heat of the moment, this is pure incompetence. How many Covid alerts have you had on your phone? And no one over 9 hours tbought “hey we should send an alert out?” This is not some technology that no one has ever heard of before. I don’t think I have resorted to Biblical eye for eye philosophy when I think this looks like criminal negligence.