Opinion

It’s not so easy to be a hero

“We don’t need another hero,” sang the great Tina Turner in a megahit from 1985. But we could have used one on Tuesday in Uvalde, Tex.

I say this as an ordinary person whose courage under fire has never been tested and — I fervently hope — never will be. I am in no position to judge the law enforcement officers who stood outside an elementary school while a killer was inside for over an hour.