Texas continues to bet on guns one year after the Uvalde school massacre

He May 24, 2022Miah Cerrillo, 11, survived shooting Robb’s school maybe, in Texas. She was saved thanks to the fact that she knew how to play dead and that it occurred to her to splash herself with the blood of another boy from her class, who was lying next to her. Faced with the threat of a shooter armed with two AR-15 rifles designed to destroy enemy soldiers on the battlefield, Miah was not rescued by an adult or the police, who, armed as a security service, took more than an hour to stop the massacre. Miah saved Miah because those who had to protect her had already failed.

A year later Salvador Ramos18 years old, he ended his life 19 minors and two teachers Little had changed in Texas at that elementary school. So far this year, there have been six incidents involving firearms in schools and institutes, with three deaths and four injuries. Since 2015, there have been 82 mass shootings in Texas with 54 deaths. and 77 injured, all under the current governor, Republican Greg Abbott. In Uvalde in November 2022, Abbott received more than 60% of the vote. Less than six months have passed since the school massacre.

On May 7, Abbott told Fox that the shootings were independent of how strict the state’s gun control laws were. He said the same thing in a speech to the National Rifle Association three days before the Uvalde massacre. As governor, Abbott passed a law allowing open carry weapons in 2015 and a law allowing possession without a license in 2021.

According to independent media ProPublica and local newspapers Texas Tribune, An analysis of hundreds of bills submitted to the Texas Congress shows that things could have been different. Of the excluded measures, at least two dozen could have prevented “the acquisition of weapons, including assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, used in the seven mass shootings” that have occurred in this state.

In June 2022. Court Supreme of the USA, with a conservative majority, denied lawmakers the ability to restrict gun ownership in public. In his report, written in large part by Justice Clarence Thomas, he says that any regulation must have an “analogous” precedent that was in effect when the Second Amendment was ratified. In other words, the Supreme Court understands that Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms derives from the fact that in 1791 there was no law preventing it.

Two weeks after the massacre, Miah told a CNN reporter that she felt like she had spent hours on the floor of her classroom. From there he could hear the police outside the building. Saving her life, Miah couldn’t understand why those people didn’t come to save her.