A memorial for the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary College taking pictures was constructed outdoors the Texas Governor’s Mansion on the anniversary of the bloodbath (Image: AP)
One yr after the mass taking pictures in Uvalde, Texas, Individuals throughout the nation honored the victims and survivors of the bloodbath.
A complete of 19 college students and two lecturers have been killed when a gunman armed with an AR-15 model rifle entered a classroom in Robb Elementary College on Could 24, 2022.
The taking pictures grew to become the deadliest faculty taking pictures in Texas state historical past, and the third deadliest in US historical past.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered all flags within the state to fly at half-mast in remembrance for the victims, survivors, and their households.
A girl cries on the Uvalde memorial in Austin, Texas (Image: AP)
A toddler holds an indication displaying every sufferer’s title at a memorial in Texas (Image: AP)
‘Our hearts stay with the households and members of the neighborhood, with whom Cecilia and I met within the weeks and months after as they grieved and commenced their journeys of therapeutic,’ Abbott mentioned.
A second of silence throughout the state was noticed at 11.30am.
Outdoors the Governor’s Mansion in Austin, grassroots gun violence activist group Mothers Demand Motion held a protest and memorial honoring the victims.
The 21 victims have been additionally featured in at present’s concern of the Houston Chronicle, which included a profile on every baby and trainer killed within the Robb Elementary College classroom.
Protesters maintain indicators outdoors the Governor’s Mansion in Austin, Texas (Image: AP)
President Joe Biden and First Woman Jill Biden pause on the candles lit for every of the 21 victims of the Uvalde taking pictures (Image: AP)
President Joe Biden and First Woman Jill Biden additionally marked the event with a speech on the White Home, surrounded by 21 white candles symbolizing the 21 victims killed within the taking pictures.
Biden recalled touring the south Texas city within the speedy aftermath of the bloodbath. ”We spent hours with their grieving households who have been damaged, and can by no means ever be the identical.”
‘Standing there in Uvalde, Jill and I couldn’t assist however assume that too many faculties, too many every single day locations have turn out to be killing fields,’ the President mentioned. ‘What number of extra mother and father will dwell their worst nightmare earlier than we stand as much as the gun foyer?’
President Biden known as on congress to move stronger laws to stop future mass shootings (Image: Brendan Smialowski / AFP)
One month after Uvalde, congress handed the Safer Communities Act, a bipartisan invoice that funded states’ implementations of crimson flag legal guidelines, intervention packages, and psychological well being remedy providers.
‘We did one thing afterwards, however not almost sufficient,’ Biden mentioned.
The President known as on congress to move frequent sense gun legal guidelines, together with banning AR-15 model assault rifles and excessive capability magazines.
‘We have now to do that to avoid wasting our kids, for the nation we love,’ Biden mentioned.
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