A Texas public safety official faced a barrage of questions over the timeline of police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
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A survivor of the Pulse nightclub massacre on Wednesday said he is “at a loss” over the massacre at a Texas elementary school that left 21 people dead.
“Twenty-one people were murdered,” said Equality Florida Press Secretary Brandon Wolf in a statement he sent to the Washington Blade a day after a gunman killed 21 people inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “Nineteen of them were children — babies. That means 19 families sent their elementary age kids off to school only to get the worst news: That their babies would be leaving class in body bags.”
Wolf was inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016, when a gunman opened fire and killed 49 people. His two close friends — Christopher “Drew” Leinonen and his fiancé, Juan Guerrero — were among those killed.Wolf in his statement noted “right wing politicians have spent the past year insisting that the greatest threats our children face are the potential they’ll learn that this nation was built on the backs of enslaved Black people or that their teacher uses they/them pronouns.”
“They’ve banned books, censored curriculum and bastardized history lessons,” said Wolf. “All the while, they haven’t lifted a finger to protect kids from what is killing them.”
Equality Florida echoed Wolf’s sentiments.
“I am heartbroken for the shattered families,” added Wolf. “Grief-stricken for these stolen lives. And enraged at the power-hungry leaders who have chosen time and again to serve up this country’s most vulnerable as sacrifices in exchange for a boost up the ladder of their own ambitions.”
Axel Rodríguez’s friend, Xavier Serrano Rosado, died inside the Pulse nightclub.
Rodríguez told the Blade that Tuesday was “such a dad day for us here” in
A Texas public safety official faced a barrage of questions over the timeline of police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
The Washington Post, 31,000 students have been affected by mass violence since 1999, with hundreds of them murdered.And in the latest sickening detail, according to the Associated Press, police officers stood by doing nothing for 40 minutes during the attack, while nearby parents begged them to act and even considered trying to rush into the school by themselves. This comes after it was revealed that the initial story claiming the shooter had body armor on was false.
re killed by a lone gunman while, according to the Associated press, police stood by and let it happen. And talking about it, Kimmel visibly broke down multiple times.And Kimmel didn’t hold back when he pointed the finger at those he deemed responsible for making yet another mass shooting possible: Republicans.“Here we are again on another day of mourning in this country. Where once again, we grieve, for the babies, the little boys and girls whose lives have been ended and whose families have been destroyed,” Kimmel said.“While our leaders on the right, the ‘Americans’ in Congress and at Fox News and these other outlets warn us not to politicize this.
after the assault weapons ban passed in the 1990s mass shooting declined considerably. And when the ban was lifted, mass shootings tripled.“That’s not complicated. If there’s less of something that is built to kill people, fewer people will be killed with that thing.
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Matthew McConaughey is speaking out following the shooting in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas that killed 19 children and three adults. McConaughey took to Instagram Tuesday night to address the tragedy that hit so close to home for the 52-year-old actor.«As all of you are aware, there was another mass shooting today, this time in my hometown of Uvalde, Texas.
horrific massacre of 19 children and 2 adults in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, James Corden spoke extemporaneously on the subject after taping the day’s episode of “The Late Late Show.”While adding that he thinks America is better than this as a country, he also lamented that the U.S. is “one of the most backward places in the world” when it comes to our problem of mass violence.Watch the video further down the page, and read on for a transcript.“Good evening.
19 students and two adults were killed when a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday. Abbott said the shooter is also dead, and is believed to have been killed by responding law enforcement officers. Abbott's comments came after the district reported an active shooter at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, which is approximately an hour and a half west of San Antonio. Abbott said the shooter was an 18-year-old male who resided in Uvalde.
In the initial hours after the horrific Texas school massacre, in which 18 children and one adult was killed, CNN’s Jake Tapper noted that politicians’ expressions of thoughts and prayers “has sadly become a cliche at this point.”
Joe Biden opened his remarks from the White House Tuesday night with a deep sigh, after a shooter killed at least 18 children and two adults at an elementary school in Texas. It was a sigh indicative of a fresh horror and yet, an all-too familiar one. «I had hoped when I became president, I would not have to do this — again,» the president said, with longtime teacher first lady Jill Biden at his side. «Another massacre.
A somber and angry Joe Biden mourned the loss of life in the Texas elementary school massacre while angrily calling out the gun lobby and manufacturers, saying that it was “time to act.”
18 students and two teachers were killed when a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday. Abbott said the shooter is also dead, and is believed to have been killed by responding law enforcement officers. Abbott's comments came after the district reported an active shooter at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, which is approximately an hour and a half west of San Antonio. Abbott said the shooter was an 18-year-old male who resided in Uvalde.
The death toll from the shooting at a Texas elementary school has risen to 18 children and three adults, a state senator said. Senator Roland Gutierrez said he was briefed by state police on the latest fatalities at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, a heavily Latino community about 85 miles west of San Antonio.