the horror of the Firearms does not breathe USA. In a country where the massacre at the Sandy Hook school in 2012 marked one of the darkest points in that infamy, with 26 deaths, including five and six-year-old children, this Tuesday the tragedy has returned to another elementary school, in this case in Uvaldea small town of 16,000 inhabitants in Texas. there a shooting committed by a local youth has left 14 dead children and a teacher also deceased, as confirmed by the State Governor Greg Abbott.
The perpetrator of the massacre, who has died presumably from police shooting, has been identified by Abbott as a 18-year-old from Uvalde, which is located about 140 kilometers west of San Antonio, near the Mexican border. According to the governor, the suspect parked his car in the Robb Elementary school parking lot and entered the school armed with a pistol and possibly a rifle. “He horrifically, incomprehensibly, shot and killed 14 students and a teacher,” Abbott said.
In another brief press conference, the local police explained that they work on the assumption that the author acted alone. As they have assured, there injured in addition to fatalities and at the time of writing these lines, all the families of the victims and the injured had not yet been notified.
Nor was there at the close of this edition information on the potential motivation of the author of the massacre, who has acted in a school with just under 600 students. The school district to which the center belongs is a 80% Hispanic according to data provided by CNN.
The president of the USA, Joe Biden, who was returning from his trip to Asia, has been informed of the news of the shooting, according to White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. “Their sentences They are with the families impacted by this horrible event & rdquor ;, has also said the press secretary, who has reported that Biden will make statements when landing in Washington.
His prayers are with the families impacted by this awful event, and he will speak this evening when he arrives back at the White House.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) May 24, 2022
212 shootings this year
This shooting, number 212 so far this year in the United States according to data from the Gun Violence Archivecomes ten days after the racist massacre in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, by a white supremacist.
It is also, according to data provided by NPR, the incident number 27 with firearms that occurs within a school grounds in so far this year. According to a database since 2018 maintains the publication ‘Education Week¡, there have been 118 episodes shot since they began their analysis. In those of this year until this Tuesday there had been 40 injured and six dead.
No political solution
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Even without knowing at the moment the motives of the attacker in Uvalde, the shooting places the United States once again in the mirror of its problem with gun violencea question whose political solution with greater control has been tested so far unattainable.
For the republicansespecially, is almost dogma the staunch defense of the second amendment, which protects the right to bear firearms. Precisely the Texan governor, Abbottapproved last year a law that allows such weapons to be carried in public without need to get a license or practice any kind of training. Abbott planned to intervene this Friday in the annual meeting of the National Rifle Association to be held in Houston.