Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was heckled by mourners Sunday throughout a go to to Robb Elementary in Uvalde, the place 19 youngsters and two lecturers had been killed on Tuesday.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was heckled by mourners Sunday throughout a go to to the Texas college the place 19 youngsters and two lecturers had been killed.
“Abbott is a son of a b—h,” stated Aracely Villalpando, 59, of Fort Value.
“It’s terrible — he’s not doing something about gun legal guidelines and desires everybody to personal a gun,” she stated. “Lots of people like weapons, and that’s OK, however how are you going to promote a army rifle to the general public?”
Salvador Ramos, 18, entered Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday carrying an AR-15-style assault rifle and killed 19 fourth-graders and two lecturers.
Villalpando stated US gun legal guidelines have to be modified now — and that politicians can not “mess around for months and years.”
Abbott, a Republican, visited the varsity’s makeshift memorial exterior as President Biden and first girl Jill Biden additionally paid their respects there.
The tragedy has been compounded by the truth that police waited 90 minutes after being known as to the scene to enter the varsity — although youngsters had been phoning 911 pleading for assist as pictures rang out.
Uvalde Consolidated Unbiased Faculty District Police Chief Peter Arredondo has come beneath hearth from all sides over his dealing with of the bloody catastrophe.
“I'm very indignant with Pete Arredondo. If police acted quicker, there wouldn't have been so many youngsters taken,” resident Rita Ortiz of Uvalde stated exterior the varsity Sunday.
Ortiz, 53, whose youngsters and grandchildren have all attended Robb Elementary, stated her 6-year-old granddaughter won't attend the varsity as deliberate subsequent 12 months as a result of the household can not belief district police to maintain the scholars protected.
“In the event that they couldn’t save these children, why would I depend on them to guard my granddaughter?” she stated. “I don’t know what we’ll do with [granddaughter] Scarlett, home-school, possibly.”
Diane Martinez, 48, stated essentially the most ”devastating half” is the law enforcement officials ready exterior the classroom as an alternative of going “inside to assist the youngsters.”
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