Opinion: The pathetic lessons of the Uvalde school shooting
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: The pathetic lessons of the Uvalde school shooting

LA Times  

The Justice Department’s report on what went wrong in Uvalde, Texas, nearly two years ago when an 18-year-old gunman armed with a high-powered rifle slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in their classrooms is utterly depressing, and utterly damning. But it will, one must fervently hope, help other law enforcement agencies avoid the kind of deadly mistakes that were made at Robb Elementary School two days before the start of that year’s summer vacation. “The extent of misinformation, misguided and misleading narratives, leaks and lack of communication about what happened,” Garland said, “is unprecedented and has had an extensive, negative impact on the mental health and recovery of the family members and other victims, as well as the entire community of Uvalde.” Garland could not help but address the larger issue we face, the easy availability of guns, which has made mass shootings a near daily occurrence in the United States. “We hope to honor the victims and the survivors by working together to try to prevent anything like it from happening again, here or anywhere.” It really is pathetic that we have to put our energy toward developing better responses to mass shootings instead of getting weapons of war off our streets in the first place.

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