Evidence shows that 19 dead children and 2 dead teachers were also failed by law enforcement officers who waited 1 hour 14 minutes 8 seconds to break the classroom where the archer caused the genocide. It seems that. It was revealed at a tragic inquiry in the Texas State Parliament on Tuesday.
Yuvarde's parents are not the first mourning relatives disappointed by the governing body. It was after a high school was shot in Parkland, Florida in 2018, just as it was after the Sandyhook Elementary School was slaughtered in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. Inevitably, it leads to changes to prevent such slaughter. But as soon as the initial shock to the genocide began to diminish, the gun lobby was mobilized to put pressure on Republican senators, and the momentum diminished in Congress.
On the other hand, in Texas, there is only increasing criticism from the spotted and incomplete reaction to the fear of Robb Elementary School.
After a legislative hearing in the state on Tuesday, Colonel Steve McLaugh, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, called the local response to the May 24 massacre a "serious failure." is. New accusations that state officials have taken responsibility and are selectively leaking to make Uvalde officials look bad.
Mayor of Yuvarde, Don McLaughlin, said Tuesday that he was dissatisfied with the lack of answers from his parents, arguing: Or misrepresent his information to keep his own soldiers and Rangers away from his response.
Senator Roland Gutierrez, representing Uvalde County, has filed a proceeding against the Department of Public Safety for failing to prepare official documents related to the shooting in a reasonable amount of time.
Allegations of these obvious turf wars, cover-ups, changes in the official story, and refusal to provide timely answers about what happened on that horrific day a month ago are it. Since then, it is consistent with the lack of transparency shown by the authorities. During shooting and response. It exacerbates the already unimaginable challenges of parents mourning their children.
At a special city council meeting, Areola stood up and begged for respect for the views of her bereaved family.
"He failed us," she said of Aledondo. "Don't let us fail by making the same mistakes he made," she said. "Go ahead and be right. Please free this man from our lives."
"Everything that comes out, everything we find, it's getting harder and harder day by day," she said. "And we have to speak for all these kids, all the families. We have to do things right. And we go down to the bottom of everything that happened. We need to find out the truth. "
Gun control moves
There is never comfort to such pain.
But for the parents and relatives of the children of the previous slaughter, who failed by the political system and turned grief into activism, their fight is not hopeless, at least in the next few days.
The US Senate is at the forefront of passing the most important firearm safety legislation of almost a generation. It would far fall short of the petition for measures such as the assault rifle ban requested by some Uvalde relatives when they testified to the House Commission earlier this month. But in the narrowly divided Senate, where Republicans have long resisted all sorts of changes in firearms law, that may be what the current political system can withstand.
And the proposed law "does something" that is widely heard following the shooting of Yuvalde and the previous massacre in a supermarket that killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York. Helps to answer the cry.
The bill provides millions of dollars for mental health, school safety, crisis intervention programs, and state incentives to include juvenile records in the national immediate crime background check system. It contains. When someone aged 18-21 goes to buy a firearm, it makes a significant change to the process. It closes the "boyfriend loophole" and thus prevents those convicted of domestic violence against romantic or intimate partners from purchasing weapons. This is a gun control advocate, and some Senate Democrats have tried it for years.
It's impossible to look back, but it could have made a difference if the law had been enforced before the mass slaughter in Yuvarde and Buffalo. Both shooters of these shooters were 18 years old and legally purchased powerful rifles. It's even harder to say whether the bill will have a meaningful impact on the number of mass fires across the United States
But the Democratic Party of Connecticut helped package negotiations with Republican Senator John Cornyn. Senator Chris Murphy, Texas, told CNN's Jake Tapper Thursday that the measure could significantly reduce firearm deaths.
"I would argue that it would save thousands of lives," said Murphy, who has been campaigning to review gun law since the massacre at Sandyhook Elementary School.
Minnesota Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar agreed with Murphy and praised his parents' courage like his Sandy Hook. He sought a ban on offensive weapons.
"Even if certain rules don't save your baby's life, start with something that saves your baby, it's the love and generous spiritual act you hear from your family. Lost your loved one. It's about people who haven't. "
Moment of real change
Perhaps most importantly, the bill passed-10 Republicans all Democrats to overcome filibuster If you stand firmly to join the chamber-when the initial sadness and anger disappear, the genocide ends the tired and frustrating pattern in which nothing was done to curb gun crime. Already, 14 Republicans have voted to advance the bill on Tuesday night. This is a precursor to Thursday's vote to overcome the filibuster that sets the final passage.
History shows that the only way that changes in the most emotional problems occur in deeply divided countries is gradual steps. This is true on the left side of the push to legalize same-sex marriage and on the right side of the growing success of the anti-abortion movement. Both campaigns took years, and even decades, to display the results.
Nicole Hockley, who lost his son Dylan in the Sandy Hook massacre, told CNN Thursday night that the days of fierce negotiations that led to the gun deal were not easy. She argued that it was the beginning, not the end, and that the unmanageable politics of gun control could change.
"More things are always possible. This is a step forward. Some people who were afraid to touch this issue find that they can vote for it. I find it interesting. He is a voter and maintains a political career. "
Still, the opposition to further gun safety measures is important. One of the reasons Senate leader Chuck Schumer is keen to vote for the bill as soon as possible is when the Republicans return home during the July 4 Independence Day holiday and face a backlash. This is to keep you calm. Konin, a major Republican negotiator in the Senate package, was booed last week at a convention in his home state. Former President Donald Trump has loudly warned that the movement of the gun package in the chamber is the beginning of a slippery slope towards the overthrow of Article 2 of the Constitutional Amendment-backing up to any of the current facts. Position effort that has not been done.
If enacted within a few days with sufficient Republican support, the new law will end the lifelong suffering of Yuvalde's parents, Sandy Hook, or other bereaved families of gun crime victims. I won't let you. But at least it shows that the government does not have to be completely unresponsive and incompetent when something goes wrong.
Perhaps Texas and local governments, which are disappointing the people of Uvalde, will now begin to receive the message.