American children are being asked to summon unbelievable courage every day while their representatives do nothing on gun control.
Irma died in the shooting at the school,and her husband,Joe died two days later from a heart attack. The couple would have been married 25 years on June 28.
Texas is facing painful questions about the proliferation of guns and the permissive state laws that allowed the 18-year-old to legally buy the weapon used in the attack.
In the wake of the latest US mass shooting,some shareholders are on an unlikely crusade to push for change in the notoriously privately-owned and opaque gun industry.
Marisela Roque was in a Walmart at the edge of Uvalde when her phone began buzzing. It was her sister,Araseli Ruiz,with disturbing news.
Some of the gun company’s advertisements invoke popular video games like Call of Duty and feature Star Wars characters and Santa Claus,messages that are likely to appeal to teenagers.
As the shooting at Robb Elementary unfolded,trained police officers fell back and cowered,while a killer with a weapon of mass destruction went about his malevolent business for 80 minutes. This is American gun logic,taken to the extreme.
As he departed mass at a local church to meet privately with family members,a crowd of about 100 people began chanting,calling for action on guns.
After the shooting at an elementary school in Texas last week,I am yet again convinced this decision to move my family away from America – where the number one cause of death for children is now guns – was the right one.
The prominent opponent of gun control laws earlier accused Democrats of seeking to use the school massacre as a pretext to “disarm Americans” at an NRA meeting.
Since police rescued him by breaking out the classroom windows and having him crawl through glass to safety,Daniel has been awakened by nightmares. He refuses to play to his beloved video games and mostly stays quiet.