Texas: Uvalde begins burying those killed in school shooting

A week after the shooting at a school in Uvalde that shocked USAthe small Texan city buries the first victims of the massacre on Tuesday, one of the worst in recent years.

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The funerals of the 19 children and the two teachers who died on May 24, shot by Salvador Ramos, 18, will last until mid-June.

One of the first ceremonies, at 2:00 p.m. local time (7:00 p.m. GMT), will be for Amerie Jo Garza, a girl with a big smile who had just celebrated her tenth anniversary when she was murdered.

This “curious little diva who ‘hated dresses’ and had a big heart” dreamed of becoming an art teacher, her family wrote in an obituary.

The day before, relatives and anonymous people came to pay homage to him before his coffin, located in a funeral home located just in front of the school where the massacre occurred.

The funeral of another victim, Maite Rodriguez, 10, will take place at 7:00 p.m. local time (0:00 GMT). The girl, who wanted to be a marine biologist, was “kind, charismatic, loving,” her mother, Ana Rodriguez, wrote on Facebook Thursday. “And above all, she was my best friend.”

“This horrible and meaningless nightmare, from which I can’t wake up, absolutely destroyed my life and my heart,” he added.

– “Do something” –

Beyond sorrow, the inhabitants of Uvaldelike many Americans, have expressed these days their anger and misunderstanding at the delay in the police intervention, which led the authorities to apologize.

Nineteen officers stood in the hallway of Robb Elementary School without intervening for almost three quarters of an hour, while Salvador Ramos was locked in a classroom with students. The police eventually came in and killed the young gunman.

This drama, like those that preceded it, sparked a wave of calls to more strictly regulate access to weapons, in a country with more weapons than people and regularly suffering deadly shootings.

President Joe Biden got to hear them firsthand when he went to the school in Uvalde on Sunday, as the crowd shouted as he passed, “Do something!”

The president “must pass laws so that we can protect children from the AR-15″, the semi-automatic weapon used at the Robb school, claimed for example Robert Robles, 73 years old.

Ricardo García, 47, who worked at the hospital in Uvalde On the day of the drama, she said that she cannot “get the crying of the mothers who were told the fatal news out of her head.”

“We have to stop selling weapons, period,” he invoked.

– “Keep pressing” –

On Monday, Biden vowed to “keep pushing” for stricter firearms regulation.

“It doesn’t make sense to be able to buy something that shoots up to 300 bullets,” he added.

“I think things have become so serious that it makes the whole world more rational on the subject,” said the Democratic president, after a weekend marked by a series of shootings that left several dead and dozens injured, tragedies that have become recurrent in the United States.

But moving from words to actions will be difficult. The narrow majority of Democrats in Congress does not allow him to adopt this type of legislation alone.

Any bill on this matter needs a qualified majority in the Senate, and for this the approval of the Republicans, or at least part of them, traditionally less inclined to legislate on the subject, is necessary.

Source: Elcomercio

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