The planet “froze” from the deadly armed attack on a school in Texas that cost the lives of 19 people, most of them children aged 7 to 10.
The perpetrator of the attack was 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who fell dead after an exchange of gunfire. Before firing on the school, he shot and seriously injured his grandmother. His motives are still unknown.
Just 3 days ago, the broker had “uploaded” on Instagram to an account called “salv8dor” the photo of two AR15 rifles.
Several of his classmates confirmed that the account belonged to Ramos, according to CNN.
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Children 5 to 7 years old
The massacre took place at Rob Elementary School, attended by children aged 5 to 7 living in Uwalde. More than 500 children, almost 90% of Latin American descent, went there in the 2020-2021 school year, according to public data from the southern US state.
Videos uploaded to social networking sites show children rushing away from the building, in small groups, to the typical yellow school buses in front of the school.
At least two people, a 10-year-old girl and a 66-year-old woman, were being treated “in critical condition” at University Health in San Antonio, the hospital said.
President Biden is “constantly informed” of the events, said his spokeswoman Karin Jean-Pierre. He will speak out about the deadly attack, addressing the American people at 20:15 (local time; 03:15 Greek time), after his return from Asia.
He ordered U.S. flags to be flown at half-mast in the White House, in all public buildings and public places until Saturday, May 28, as a “sign of respect for the victims” of the attack, according to a press release issued by his services.
Ms Jean-Pierre added that Mr Biden was “praying for the families of the victims”.
The attack plunges the United States again into the torment of repeated school attacks in recent years, with shocking images of children being physically and mentally injured, often forced to lock themselves in classrooms before being driven away by law enforcement and insane parents desperately seeking to learn. the fate of their shoots …
Sterile dialogue
The tragedy is especially reminiscent of that in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, when a 20-year-old with mental health problems killed 26 people, including twenty children aged 6 to 7, before committing suicide.
Chris Murphy, the Democratic senator of this state, “begged” his colleagues to take action yesterday, assuring that these tragedies are not “inevitable”. “It’s only happening in this country – in no other. “In no other country do children who go to school think they can be shot,” he said, adding that members of Congress “are not powerless,” and that in the United States, “guns are flowing like water.” slaughter follows one another.
Vice President Kamala Harris, stressing that “our hearts continue to crack” every time something like this happens, stressed that as a nation Americans must find the courage to take action so that there is “never again” a massacre at school.
In 2018, after the massacre at Parkland High School in Florida (17 dead, most of them teenage students), there were massive demonstrations, especially of young people, demanding that politicians take action.
But the debate on the issue has remained virtually barren: there is no real chance that Congress – where the arms lobby is heavily influential – will vote for an ambitious gun reform, an issue that has always divided Americans.
According to the Small Arms Survey research institute, in 2017 there were 393 million firearms in the country, more than the population.
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