All that sentimentalism about the boys in blue, how much "blue lives matter.," how there is only a thin line between chaos and civilization, and it is a blue line...what does all the mawkishness come to? It amounts to this: at some point a madman with a gun may be coming for someone you love, and a police officer may be the only one who can stop the bad guy in time. If so, he will of course DO SO, even at the expense of his own life. In preparation for that day, we should show him not just respect, but admiration. Wasn't the Uvalde shooting on May 24 a stunning refutation of such nonsense? For the parents of students at Uvalde, THAT MOMENT CAME. And the lads in blue were nowhere around. The lies and walkings-back are intriguing here. The first story was the rather incoherent one that the school resources officer had confronted the madman outside the school building. But, the story continued, the madman somehow got past him. Without having to kill him. People immediate...