Eva Mireles went to the job she loved yesterday: she was a fourth-grade teacher at Rob Elementary School in the small town of Uwalde, USA Texas.
He never returned home.
He is among the victims of the massacre he committed Heavily armed 18 year old high school student, as well as 19 young students and another member of the teaching staff. There was another statistic of the mass shooting epidemic in US schools.
Specializing in the education of bilingual children and children with special needs, Eva Mireles taught children 9 to 10 years old, explained her cousin Christina Aricenti Mireles via Facebook. “My heart has become a thousand pieces,” he said.
She was married, had a daughter who graduated from college and “three fluffy friends”, according to her CV on the school’s website. Ruben Ruiz’s husband is a police officer, a member of the service tasked with investigating the massacre.
Her aunt Lidia Martines Delgado mourned her via Facebook. “I’m furious that these rifles continue. These children were innocent. No one should be able to buy rifles so easily. This is the city where I grew up, a small community of 20,000 people. “I never imagined that such a thing would happen, especially to my loved ones,” said Martinez Delgado.
“All we can do is pray for our country, our state, our schools, and everyone’s families.”
There were two days left until the end of the school year when the massacre took place.
The city of Ovalde, some 130 miles west of San Antonio, has about 16,000 permanent residents, nearly 80 percent of whom are of Latin American descent, according to the most recent U.S. Census.
Children under 10 years
THE slaughterthe worst of its kind since then at Sandy Hook Elementary School (2012), is forcing many in the US to relive the torment of school attacks, which have been repeated in recent years, with shocking images of physically and mentally injured children being locked in classes before they are removed by law enforcement forces, parents in a state of insanity who beg desperately to find out the fate of their shoots …
Speaking shortly after returning from a tour of Asia, US President Joe Biden yesterday called for “action” to tackle the scourge of gun attacks, urging members of Congress to defy the lobby. of gun ownership.
“How many more dozens of young children, who saw what happened, will be forced to watch their friends die as if they were on a battlefield,” while at school, “for God’s sake?” asked the head of state.
“When, for God’s sake, will we stand tall in the arms lobby?” the 78-year-old Democratic head of state wondered. “I’m heartbroken and tired,” he added.
He stressed that he considers it “simply wrong” for any 18-year-old to be able to buy assault rifles. “Mass shootings like this rarely happen anywhere in the world – why? They have mental health problems elsewhere, other countries in the world have broken families, lost people. “But this kind of mass shooting does not happen anywhere as often as it does in America.”
“Why are we willing to go through with this massacre?”
He further added that “neither he nor the other Americans will forget those who hinder or delay the passage of legislation on” common sense “weapons. Not all gun crimes will be prevented if stricter laws are passed, but the situation could improve, he added.
“It’s time for action,” Biden said. “We can do much more,” “transform this pain into action.”
“Stumbles,” said Vice President Kamala Harris, who also called for “action” on the scourge of weapons. Saying that “our hearts continue to crack” every time something like this happens, he stressed that as a nation, Americans must find the courage to take action so that there is “never” another massacre at school.
The massacre took place 10 days after the one in Buffalo, New York, where a young racist attacked a supermarket and killed 10 people, mostly African Americans.
Sterile dialogue
Yesterday’s tragedy bears similarities to that in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, where a 20-year-old with mental health problems killed 26 people, including 20 children aged 6 to 7, before committing suicide.
Chris Murphy, the Democratic senator of this state, “begged” yesterday, addressing his colleagues in the semicircle to take action, assuring that such tragedies are not “inevitable”. Such massacres occur “only 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,” hence the massacre. succeeds the other.
In 2018, after the attack of a student who was expelled from Parkland High School in Florida (17 dead, most of them teenagers and teenagers), massive demonstrations were organized, especially of young people, who had demanded that politicians legislate. But the dialogue on the issue remained barren.
Despite President Biden’s intervention, there is no real possibility that Congress – in which the arms lobby has had a strong influence for decades – will vote in favor of any ambitious gun reform, an issue that has long 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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