On the shooting in Uvalde, Texas: Yes, this is a political issue, it should be because politicians can help fix it. Ban the sale of assault weapons and large magazines or whatever you call these weapons of war. Give school administrators the ability to intervene when the red flags are raised. . That speaks to how one gunman can kill masses of people. in a matter of minutes ...and whole classrooms and their teachers. It is also why arming teachers and police resource officers and law enforcement officers are outgunned and have to use war tactics to bring them down. We have banned the sale of combat weapons before. We can do it again. I am a gun owner, but .. I could be that grandmother in Buffalo, and the grandmother of yesterday's shooter. I am the mother of a teacher of an upper elementary teacher who herself is the mother of a survivor of a local school shooting, and both mother and daughter have spent a matter of years recovering from the mental health damage. Her daughter sheltered in a cloakroom closet for hours until her room was cleared..as the gunman took his life in the next classroom. He, a fellow student she knew well, did not have weapons of war, only a legally bought shotgun, but "only two died", not 10 nor 20.. The shooter had already been flagged as a potential threat by his school authorities, but they did nothing to prevent it. (The school district was successfully sued) I am the grandmother of a grandson, a 4th grader, who cowered under his desk for hours in a school near Sandy Hook. I live in two communities, one is urban and of which gave the name of infamy to Columbine and Aurora movie carnage. The other, rural community where shotguns are a matter of necessity, but hunting and protection from wildlife are not done by weapons of war. Each mass shooting becomes the blueprint for the next mass killer, and they learn how to become more deadly. Stop this insanity now.
https://www.coloradopolitics.com/elections/2022/heartbroken-colorado-officials-candidates-react-to-massacre-at-texas-elementary-school/article_03281f4c-dbcc-11ec-a4f1-b33a5486a4ff.html
Joe Biden on Uvalde, Texas school shooting: full speech (statesman.com)
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