Texas School Shooting Kills At Least 20 After Hours

[indigo]

Nineteen young children and two adults have died in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas.

The gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School - which teaches children aged seven to 10 - in the city of Uvalde before he was killed by law enforcement, officials said.

The 18-year-old suspect had a handgun, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and high-capacity magazines, investigators say.

The teenager is suspected of shooting his grandmother before the rampage.
Local media report he may have been a high school student in the area.

Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief of Police Pete Arredondo said the shooting began at 11:32 local time on Tuesday, and that investigators believe the attacker "did act alone during this heinous crime".

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the shooter, whom he named as Salvador Ramos, abandoned a vehicle before entering the school to "horrifically, incomprehensibly" open fire.

According to CBS News, the attacker was wearing body armour as he carried out the attack. Another 18-year-old who is suspected of attacking a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on 14 May was also wearing body armour and carrying a semi-automatic rifle - both of which are commercially available in the US.

How many times does this need to happen before they change their gun laws?

 

[Tauriel]

Heartbreaking

"there's no solution" says only country on the planet where this constantly happens.

 

[Crabtree]

Christ.

Wonder how many more times we'll see this same story in our lifetimes. Piles of dead children and nothing changes.

 

[hannah]

So sad.

Why is "gun control" so hard.

We hear the same obvious things repeated over and over again, but they never seem to act. What's blocking a serious US-wide legislation?

 

[Dylan]

Same old same old. Second amendment. Blah blah blah. Thoughts and prayers. Blah blah blah. Shove your fecking thoughts and prayers up your hole. A fat lot of good that's going to do to a parent of a murdered child. An AVOIDABLE murder of a child.

The 2nd amendment refers to an era when the US was a wild place which law enforcement agencies could not cover. People needed to defend themselves, their families and their property back then. 250 years that's a long time ago!!!

We'll be having the same conversation again and again and again and again and again. This year alone.

 

[Gemma]

Tragic, such a waste of lives but there is 0% chance the US adopts any sort of gun control laws.

 

[Boot Cleaner]

Even if there was any adoption/amendment it would probably outrage many centrists to the point the Republicans would coast through the next election and just remove that Executive Order.