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30 Reactions From Notable Folks To The Recent Tragedy In Uvalde That Put Things Into Perspective
The gun laws in the US have become a little bit of a joke all around the world, because of how they actually do the opposite of what laws are there for - to ensure everyone’s safety. But we all realize that it is not actually funny when people are losing their lives, especially knowing how many of those deaths could have been prevented.
There are people who take every chance they can to speak up about the gun policies in the US, but their voices are often lost in the flow of information and other events happening in the world and only can be heard clearly when a tragedy shakes society.
The loud discussions about gun laws unfolding right now are unfortunately a result of a mass shooting that took place on May 24 in Uvalde, Texas at an elementary school with 19 kids and 2 teachers killed. Celebrities and famous politicians are using their platforms to spread awareness of this problem in the US and are offering solutions to end it.
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#1
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 2 years ago
It is tragic, heartbreaking, and flat-out disgusting when guns are the leading cause of death for youth and adolescents in the United States. I feel like this country has grown so numb to the endless cycle of shooting that plague the newspapers and news sites. Twenty-seven, I repeat twenty-seven school shooting have happened in the U.S. this year. And there have already been 213 mass shootings since the 2022. Shouldn't that terrify people and send up massive warning bells? This country needs to taken action because sadly thoughts and prayers are not going to bring innocent lives back.
The shooting took place at Robb Elementary school in the small city of Uvalde in Texas, which is located about 80 miles west of San Antonio. As of now, 21 deaths were confirmed.
The police have already found out who the shooter was and it was actually a local high school student, Salvador Ramos. He had just turned 18 and for his birthday, he legally bought two assault rifles and scores of ammo. Three days before the shooting, he posted a photo of his purchase in his Instagram stories.
On Tuesday, Salvador Ramos shot his grandmother, who was taken to the hospital and was in serious condition. Then the shooter crashed his car into a ditch near the school and went into the building through the back door.
He chose a classroom and barricaded himself in one of them that had an adjoining classroom as well. The high schooler started what he came there for and just started shooting at everyone. All of those 19 children and 2 teachers that were killed were in that classroom the shooter was in and the adjoining one. When the police arrived, they managed to open the door and liquidate the shooter.
Salvador Ramos had no problems accessing the guns, and quite powerful ones too. He just went to a federally authorized dealer in the Uvalde area and legally paid for them as if he was buying candy.
The right to have a gun is mentioned in the infamous Second Amendment to the United States Constitution which states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
#7
TrickQuestion 2 years ago
Technically not true. DJT repealed an Obama era law that made it harder for people with mental illness to get guns. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-trump-made-it-easier-mentally-ill-get-guns-when-n1039301
And Americans like to take advantage of this right. That is why there are 120 guns per 100 Americans, and about 44 percent of US adults have a gun in their house. Gun production jumped 60 percent in the period between January 2020 and January 2021. Also, the FBI announced that in March 2021, they conducted the most background checks concerning guns.
Many people see owning a gun as a manifestation of the freedom their country provides them, however, time and time again it has proven itself to be very harmful.
#9
Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago
And this is what sickens me - the hope that maybe this kind of horrific tragedy would mean enough to force a change for the better. When it happened THE FIRST TIME. But it didn't, and it just keeps happening over and over. And nothing changes.
The gun issue in the US is long-standing. In the years between 1970 and 2020, there have been 2,053 school shootings, and this year alone, 288 of them have been recorded. The US has the most school shootings in the world and they are in the lead with a big difference from the country with the second highest number of shootings, which is Mexico, with 8 so far this year.
What is even more concerning is that this wasn’t the first big school shooting with many fatal victims. In fact, the one in Uvalde is the second biggest elementary school shooting in the US, in the past 10 years, that is.
In 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 26 people when he came to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The incident raised the question of gun control then, but in all those years, nothing has changed and it was just a matter of time until a new tragedy occurred.
#12
Artemis302 2 years ago
We hire our lawmakers with our votes. Did you / will you vote this year? Where does your chosen senator and representative stand on gun control? Find out! Fire a legislator who is not working for YOUR interests, and elect their competition. Write letters! Let your legislators know what's important to you. We elect them to make laws, not to create a career in the media spotlight by mouthing pithy, meaningless sound bites. Vote the opposers and the obstructionists out of office.
#14
Mozzarella 2 years ago
Why do politicians not get it? They are so intent on the wrong things. They focus on stopping marijuana, when alcohol takes over 80 thousands lives a year. Like so many more, they don’t get it. Why can’t they get that they get that they are approving THE MURDER OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. America is the only one that doesn’t prohibit guns and it is ridiculous
Mass school shootings happen in other countries in the world as well, but the frequency that it happens in the US is unmatched. So there is clearly something that the rest of the world is doing right that is not done in one of the most developed countries in the world.
So the politicians in the Senate are once again raising the question of gun control laws, using this shooting as evidence that the current ones are not working. Hopefully, the pressure from not only society but famous people who have influence will help to move towards the right direction.
#15
Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago
Where are kids safe? In almost any other country, where this madness doesn't happen.
#18
Mozzarella 2 years ago
Freedom is nothing compared to the lives that were sacrificed for it. Now that those people have come and gone, you create another unliveable country, exactly why America got their freedom in the first place
#22
Joe Reaves 2 years ago
What's even worse is she missed out the one at the church in between last week's supermarket shooting and this week's school shooting. It didn't have as high a body count but only because the congregations rushed the guy and the preacher hit him over the head with a chair. One of the people rushing him died but it gave the others the chance to take him down. Otherwise there would have been a double figure death toll there too.
#24
Mozzarella 2 years ago
Sorry is a word. Sorry will never be enough for the crimes and horrors humankind have committed. We will have to pay for every single thing that we have done to the earth and each other
#26
Mozzarella 2 years ago
They don’t need hearts. They need change. Riot. Tell the bitches that were supposed to “represent” you that we are not gonna stop and watch as countless others get killed. Take a stand. They will not get away with this
#28
Tamra Stiffler 2 years ago
The shooter didn't use "evil" to kill those kids, he used a GUN. We don't need "thoughts and prayers", if those worked we'd live in a land of golden streets and unicorns farting rainbows! We need an honest government. We need politicians that can't be bought. We need citizens to pull their heads out of their asses and stop voting for nutjobs. We need to get rid of the goddamn guns.
#29
Mozzarella 2 years ago
In times like this, when people OF POWER, people who ARE ROLE MODELS TO THE WORLD, can’t do s**t, it’s up to us to help each other. They can’t get it. And they never will. HELP EACH OTHER. Even if no-one else will
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Mike Crow 2 years ago
Let us take a moment that the ones who claim to be pro life are also pro guns.
NsG 2 years ago
It's already been established that they stop being pro-life once the baby exits the birth canal. That there's such an overlap in the Venn diagram of pro-life/pro-gun is as unsurprising as the fact that there's been another mass shooting at all at this point.
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Nathaniel 2 years ago (edited)
Seriously, how is the gun business making money more important than children's lives?
Mike Crow 2 years ago
The USA is a backward and cowardly nation who do not want to answer that question.
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Deborah B 2 years ago
America, where they get legislation against abortion to protect unborn babies, but not legislation against guns to protect children from being murdered in school. I guess the gun lobbyists are richer than the reproductive rights lobbyists.
Melissa Rodriguez 2 years ago
It's simple really, just shoot the fetus out. /s
Load More Replies... Mike Crow 2 years ago
Let us take a moment that the ones who claim to be pro life are also pro guns.
NsG 2 years ago
It's already been established that they stop being pro-life once the baby exits the birth canal. That there's such an overlap in the Venn diagram of pro-life/pro-gun is as unsurprising as the fact that there's been another mass shooting at all at this point.
Load More Replies... Nathaniel 2 years ago (edited)
Seriously, how is the gun business making money more important than children's lives?
Mike Crow 2 years ago
The USA is a backward and cowardly nation who do not want to answer that question.
Load More Replies... Deborah B 2 years ago
America, where they get legislation against abortion to protect unborn babies, but not legislation against guns to protect children from being murdered in school. I guess the gun lobbyists are richer than the reproductive rights lobbyists.
Melissa Rodriguez 2 years ago
It's simple really, just shoot the fetus out. /s
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