

“Nearly 10 years after Sandy Hook, Connecticut knows this feeling all too well. Ned Lamont said earlier in the day, ordering the flags in the state to fly at half staff. One life taken by gun violence is too many, but 15 innocent lives, including 14 children, is an utter tragedy,” Gov. “The news of another mass shooting, this time from Texas, is devastating. Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo identified the shooter as Salvador Ramos.Īccording to Abbott, the shooter entered the building with a handgun and possibly a rifle, before opening fire. Greg Abbott said the 18-year-old shooter was dead, apparently shot by responding officers.

While details were still limited immediately after Tuesday’s shooting, Texas Gov. “It’s time to turn this pain into action,” he continued, calling for Americans to stand up to gun lobbyists. “Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Where in God’s name is our backbone?” “These kinds of mass shootings rarely happen anywhere else in the world,” Biden said.
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“The list goes on, and the list grows when it includes mass shootings at places like movie theaters, houses of worship, as we saw just 10 days ago at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y.” Since then, there have been over 900 incidents of gunfire reported on school ground,” he said.

“It’s been 3,448 days, 10 years, since I stood up at a … grade school in Connecticut where another gunman massacred 26 people, 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Addressing the nation Tuesday night, President Joe Biden said he is “sick and tired” of the violence.
