Column: A Latino-on-Latino mass shooting. What now?
LA TimesEsmeralda Bravo holds a picture of her granddaughter Nevaeh, one of the school shooting victims, during a vigil at the Uvalde County Fairplex. In four, most of the victims were Latino: the 1984 San Ysidro massacre in a McDonald’s, the 2017 Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre, the El Paso massacre three years ago and now Uvalde, a town where nearly three-quarters of residents are Latino and the school district is more than 90% Latino. Yet a Latino had never been the killer in any of those or any of the other 10 worst mass shootings — until Ramos. I’ve seen hundreds of social media posts by Latinos who say that the young victims in Uvalde reminded them of their nieces, nephews and children. When I read that Ramos legally bought guns for his 18th birthday with nearly as much ease as buying a Coke, I thought about the gun cult that captivates too many Latino males.
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