Uvalde's victim's sister appeals for tighter gun control in Texas

Long before the sun rises on Thursday, Jazzmin Casares sat in her sister's bed and cried for a nine-year-old child who was killed in a Uvalde school rampage a month ago.

Then a teenager with purple striped hair stood up to the Texas Capitol for four hours by car. So she wept and begged lawmakers to pass stricter gun control, and she wondered why so many security measures failed.

"I don't have to be here right now. I should be watching a movie with her sister at home," she said through snuffs. "I'm asking you to do something or change something here. They failed because the people who were supposed to keep her safe at school didn't.

Her sister Jacklin — a tough and compassionate girl who dreamed of visiting Paris and becoming a veterinarian — was 19 One of the childrenwas shot dead in Rob Elementary School on May 24, before police attacked the classroom and killed the shooters. }  . Two teachers have also died.

The genocide in the United States and the recent series of mass murders have renewed the debate on gun law, school security, and how to stop violence. did. In Texas, lawmakers have responded to several mass shootings in recent years by making guns easier to carry rather than tightening them.

Jazzmin's testimony in front of the Legislative Commission looking at ways to prevent gunshots is that Congress has the most widespread gun violence bill in decadesandThe US Supreme Court ruled that Americans have the right to carry firearms in public

But a 17-year-old boy is in the final Everything that was about to enter the war was important. In high school, something was done to make the school safer. She said she has been doing active shooting drills since before her kindergarten.

"It's horrible, and every time we go into the blockade, we don't know if it's true, and we have to go back to school next year," she said. "Going to school doesn't have to be a decision, but yes. I have a fourth grade, that's it. Am I going to survive it?"

Mr. Casares himself He told lawmakers that victims could be honored by adopting a gun background check and a "harm signal law" that allows guns to be removed from people who are at great risk of harming themselves or others. ..

The Yuvarde shooter was former student Salvador Ramos, who bought an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle that he used to attack a few days after he turned 18.

"There should be absolutely no reason for this murderer to get a firearm," Kazareth said.

"I felt it. I felt it was real," she said.

Texas Republican-controlled legislature has lifted gun control in the last decade, despite the state's mass shootings killing more than 85 people since 2018. did. The

state requires a permit to carry long rifles such as those used in Uvalde, which can be purchased by 18 year olds. Last year, MPs legalized people over the age of 21 to carry their pistols in public without a license, background check, or training.

Jazzmin Casares has been unable to stop shooters, including reviewing school security rules since the shooting and teachers being told to keep the doors locked at all times. I told lawmakers that I checked the list.

"How did some of those classroom doors not lock?" She said the family sat behind her with a picture of Jacklin and "forever in our hearts." He said he was wearing a T-shirt with the words "inside" on it.

She said her family's grief was exacerbated by the knowledge that some of what happened at Rob Elementary could have been prevented.

Her sister loved to sing and dance and was "one of the sweetest souls that no one would ever meet."

Jacklin and her cousin Annabel Rodriguez was a close friend and part of a close quintet of classmates. All five died in the shooting.

Immediately after Jazzmin testified, she lost her parents in a 1991 shooting in Killeen, Texas, and the period of waiting for the gun to be sold was "valueless", eliminating the gunless zone. I told the committee that it should be done.

"Let's be clear. A gun, it's just a tool. It's a tool you can use to kill your family, but you can use it to protect your family," Susanna Happ said. I am saying.

Former Republican Happ said, after

Happ spoke, Jacklin's father, Javier Casares, took her to the hallway with her handshake. I exchanged a short hug.

"Happ, who has a bond, said," In a sense, it's my parents, they died soon, and they died together. I can't imagine losing a child. I can't even get there in my head. "

A few days after the tragedy of Yuvarde, Javier Casares rushed to school, watching carefully the children fleeing from school. A nine-year-old "firefighter"

He and his other parents complained that the police weren't doing any more. "Army veterans Casares said.

Casares said Thursday that he was still struggling to trust the ever-evolving timeline from state police. 155}

During the break, Casares and his family met about 10 police chiefs and police officers in the hallway.

Delayed and mistaken response by law enforcement agenciesis currently at the center of multiple investigations. The Chief of Texas This week's state police have called this a "serious failure" and have learned since Colombine High School shot in Colorado in 1999. He said he ignored everything.

Police had enough police and firepower to stop the shooter after three minutes. He enrolled in school, and Colonel Steve McLaugh, director of the Texas Public Safety Department, said Tuesday. However, police officers armed with rifles waited for more than an hour in the school corridor before entering the classroom and killing the shooters.

He blamed Pete Aledondo, the chief of the Yuvarde School District Police Department, who said McLaugh was the commander in charge, for much of the delay.

The school district put Arredondo on leaveon Wednesday. Hal Harrell, the director of the Uvalde Integrated Independent School District, said the facts of what happened remain unclear.

Arredondo states that he does not believe he is in charge, he assumes that he is dominated by someone else. He rejected repeated requests for comments from the Associated Press.

The mayor of Uvalde opposed blaming Arredondo, saying that the Department of Public Safety repeatedly released false information and scorned the role of his own officers.

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