Perhaps you've become sickeningly aware this week that the response by law enforcement to the Uvalde school shooting May 24 did not unfold as it should have. Mistakes, as they say, were made. Boy were they.
All of those mistakes, of course, were predated by the first mistake, the one made by anyone and everyone, directly or indirectly, who helped put an assault rifle in the hands of an 18-year-old.
When the 18-year-old loaded his legally purchased rifle, shot his grandmother in the face, drove her pickup truck to the local elementary school and killed 19 elementary school kids and two teachers, mental illness suddenly became a hot topic again.
