School shooter in Texas barricaded himself with his victims before executing them

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Salvador Raimondo Ramos, the young man identified as the… Uvalde Elementary School ShooterAccording to Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Lieutenant Chris Olivarez, he barricaded himself with his victims in a central auditorium before they were executed.

Ramos barricaded himself around his victims and shot them dead, killing two teachers and 19 children, said Olivarez, for whom this course of action “simply shows the gunman’s total evil,” CNN reports.

Olivarez explained that the officers charged with arresting Ramos walked almost all of the school before they could find him, forced the lock on the auditorium and shot him. The 18-year-old was wearing a bulletproof vest “used by tactical teams, such as SWAT,” and was carrying an assault weapon.

“There are many unanswered questions,” said Olivarez, who has reported that Texas authorities are already working with the FBI to determine whether the school was a specific target of Ramos.

“There are many unanswered questions”

“What we know about the shooter is that he lived here in Uvalde, attended one of the local high schools, lived with his grandparents, was unemployed, no friends, no girlfriend we can identify at the moment, no criminal record, no ties.” .” also with gangs,” he said.

Olivarez has said that Ramos’ first victim, his own grandmother whom he shot before breaking into the school, is still alive and that they are trying to find his grandfather and other close relatives.

As for the number of injured, Uvalde Memorial Hospital has reported that the 15 people they received on Tuesday after the shooting, seven have already been discharged, while the rest, the more serious ones, have been transferred to other medical centers in San Antonio.

Eleven of the fifteen injured were children, while three of the four adults who came in have already been sent home. San Antonio University Hospital has reported that of the four injured people referred to hospital, a 66-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl are in serious condition, while two other little girls, ages 10 and 9, are in good shape. state.

In a speech to the nation immediately after arriving from a tour of Asia, the US president said, Joe Biden wondered when his country will stand up to the gun lobby” “As a nation, we need to ask ourselves when the hell are we going to stand up to gun lobbyists,” Biden lamented, visibly shaken.

The flags they will wave half-mast at the White House and all federal buildings through Saturday, May 28.

It is aboutthe second deadliest school shooting in the past decade, after the one that happened in 2012 at the Sandy Hook school in Newton, Connecticut, where 26 people died. The third deadliest is that of 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed.

Coincidentally, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is a… staunch defender of firearms and in 2021 he signed a series of state laws that made Texas a “sanctuary” for these kinds of weapons.

Barriers to gun control

The ex-president Barack Obama During his tenure, he has already placed special emphasis on the need to limit access to weapons, especially for potentially dangerous people, with symbolic speeches such as the one he gave with tears in his eyes after the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre.

The big “lobby” for gun ownership is the National Rifle Association (NRA), but it’s not alone. Politically, he has mostly support within the Republican Party and has regained some of the ground lost during Donald Trump’s time in the White House.

Those opposed to potential restrictions resort to the Constitution’s Second Amendment: “Since a well-ordered militia is necessary for the security of a free state, the people’s right to have and bear arms should not be violated.” .” In order to suppress or change it, it is necessary to meet a number of difficult-to-reach conditions.

Thus, any amendment to the text passed in 1788 would require the support of two-thirds of the members of both houses of Congress, as well as three-quarters of the nation’s states (38). There is a second option, hitherto unknown in United States history: that two-thirds of the states convene a constitutional convention.

The Democratic Congressman from Connecticut Chris Murphy He has taken the floor in the Senate to “literally beg” his Republican colleagues to take up once and for all the problem that exists in the United States regarding guns and has asked them to support laws “that make this less likely.” to make”.

Later, before the press, he dismissed the Republicans’ argument to blame “mentally ill” people for these kinds of massacres and argued that what is happening in the United States cannot be explained in this light.

“Spare me that bullshit about mental illness. We don’t have more mental illness than any other country in the world. You can’t explain this through this lens because we’re not an outlier. We have access to weapons and the ability of criminals and very sick people to getting them. That’s what makes America different,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxtonhas proposed that teachers be trained to “defend” schools and their students in these types of situations through a program run by the police.

“There should be a program in Texas that can train teachers, school districts, to help defend the school as well,” Paxton said in a telephone interview on Fox.