According to David Grossman, retired LTC relaying what a veteran of Vietnam told him, there are three kinds of people in the world, sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs.
Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be. Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young sheepdogs yearn for a righteous battle. The old sheepdogs are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound of the guns when needed right along with the young ones.
It looks like we’ll have to consider a fourth, a sheep in sheepdogs’ – or wolves’ – clothing.
Is the Uvalde police force a part of the community or outsiders like the cops in Furguson were?