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Justice Department to probe law enforcement response
Still, in the most concrete sign of a federal government response to the Uvalde
massacre last Tuesday, the Justice Department said it would review the law
enforcement response during the killings at Robb Elementary School. CNN has
reported that 19 law enforcement officers stood outside the classroom where the
children died for 50 minutes waiting for room keys and tactical equipment. The
revelations raised the agonizing possibilities that these departures from active
shooter protocols could have cost lives.

On the legislative front, Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin, an Illinois
Democrat, said on CNN's "State of the Union" that he sensed a "different
feeling" among GOP colleagues given the horror of the atrocity against young
children in Texas. But he cautioned any eventual agreement will be limited.

And on the same show, Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas underscored the
limited opening for compromise in the GOP position. He rejected proposals such
as universal background checks for gun purchases, red flag laws to keep guns
away from people seen as a threat and prohibitions on people under the age of 21
buying powerful semi-automatic rifles. Like many Republicans, he called for
enforcing school security. The level of weaponry, training and security needed
would cost many millions of dollars in an often underfunded public education
system and require kids to spend their formative years effectively under heavy
guard. Crenshaw's arguments were symptomatic of the position that any gun
control measures would be effectively un-American -- an outlook that weighs
heavily against any effective action in Congress.

The cost of this absolutist philosophical stance, which leads to the widespread
availability of deadly weapons and regular mass killings, was painfully revealed
in a heart-rending interview conducted by CNN's Dana Bash with Adrian Alonzo,
who spent all day Tuesday trying to find his niece, Ellie Garcia, only to
discover she was among those who perished.

"By far the worst day of my life. And I'll never forget that day. I can replay
those hours so vividly in my mind and it's just etched in my mind," Alonzo said.
Ellie would have turned 10 next Saturday.

Trump pivots from mourning to politics
While the President's power may be limited, he did his emotional duty and more
Sunday, spending three hours with bereaved families on Sunday afternoon. At one
point, with the first lady by his side, he poignantly embraced Mandy Gutierrez,
the principal of Robb Elementary School, next to a growing pile of flowers at an
impromptu memorial.

Ex-President Donald Trump made no such journey, choosing instead to cement his
standing with GOP base voters at a time when his total control over his own
movement is being questioned ahead of a possible 2024 White House campaign.

Trump appeared at the National Rifle Association-Institute for Legislative
Action's annual leadership forum in Houston on Friday, less than 300 miles away
from Uvalde, and read out the names of each of the children and teachers
massacred.
"Each precious young soul that was taken is an incomprehensible loss," Trump
said, but quickly pivoted to politics, lashing out at Biden and other Democrats
for raising the issue of gun safety overhauls after massacres in Texas and
earlier this month in Buffalo, New York, both of which were conducted by
18-year-olds with legally bought semi-automatic weapons.

He argued that it was not fair for law-abiding gun owners to be deprived of such
weapons because of the actions of "sick and demonic" attackers. He proposed more
guns in schools to keep kids safe and for the turning of school buildings into
fortresses.

And Trump spelled out the argument that even small reforms are a ruse to
confiscate Americans' guns, points often used by the NRA and other
conservatives.

"Once they get the first step, they'll take the second step, the third, the
fourth, and then you'll have a whole different look at the Second Amendment,"
Trump said.

The notion that even horrific carnage like that which unfolded last week in
Texas must never diminish the magnitude of the freedom of Americans to own
high-powered weapons of war resonates in red, more rural states usually
represented by Republicans, where Trump remains highly popular. It also helps
explains why even those GOP senators who might be willing to take modest steps
to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of killers find it such a tough vote and
why it's hard to meet the 60-vote threshold needed to pass major legislation --
a function of Senate rules that even some moderate Democrats are not willing to
entertain changing.

One Republican who is shifting his position is Rep. Adam Kinzinger. The Illinois
congressman said he was now open to a ban on AR-15 rifles following a flurry of
mass shootings.

"Look, I have opposed a ban, you know, fairly recently. I think I'm open to a
ban now. It's going to depend on what it looks like because there's a lot of
nuances on what constitutes, you know, certain things," Kinzinger told CNN's
Bash on "State of the Union" when asked if he still opposed "a ban on the kind
of assault weapons that were used in the shooting."

Kinzinger, however, is hardly a representative sample of the GOP since he has
freed himself from party orthodoxy by breaking with Trump -- including over his
election fraud lies. He has decided not to run for reelection in the fall and is
therefore no longer beholden to GOP activists who would consider his comment as
heresy.

But the argument that any gun restrictions would unacceptably infringe the
rights of law-abiding gun owners is inherently a political one. While the
Constitution says that the right to bear arms shall not be infringed, it does
not state that Americans have the right to have any weapon of their choice,
especially those that fire at a rate of lethality that the founders could never
have imagined. And the campaign against tightening gun laws prioritizes the
rights of gun owners over those of innocent victims, like those in Texas who
last week had the right to life destroyed in an instant.

So entrenched are these positions that the sense of helplessness in the face of
repeated massacres seems unlikely to dissipate quickly. It's easy to imagine
Biden and the first lady appearing at yet another vigil for victims of mass
carnage soon. For the President, doing "something" might be impossible.

Biden says pain ‘palpable’ in Uvalde as memorial services for shooting victims
to begin



 

The first memorial services for the 19 children and two teachers killed in a
mass shooting at their elementary school in Uvalde began on Monday, a day after
Joe Biden visited the small south Texas city and was urged by residents to take
action on gun safety laws.

Returning to Washington on Monday morning, the US president, wearing a black
suit, talked about the “palpable” pain in Uvalde.

Asked by a reporter on the south lawn outside the White House whether he felt
more motivated to act on guns now, Biden said: “I’ve been pretty motivated all
along. The folks who were victimized, their families…the pain is palpable. I
think a lot of it is unnecessary. I’m going to continue to push.”

Republicans in the US Senate have blocked meaningful federal legislation on gun
control for many years. Biden said he had not had been negotiating with
Republicans in the current round of talks underway on Capitol Hill, but he added
that: “I think things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational
about it.”

US vice-president Kamala Harris called on Saturday for a US assault rifle ban,
as she attended the final funeral for victims killed in a mass shooting in
Buffalo, New York, just over two weeks ago, where an assault rifle was used in a
racist attack at a supermarket in a majority Black neighborhood.

High capacity, semi-automatic military-style assault rifles were used in both
the Buffalo and Uvalde shootings, both purchased legally.

Biden said on Monday that such weapons made no sense in the hands of the general
public.

“There’s only one reason for something that can fire 100 shots…there’s simply no
rational basis for it in terms of self protection, hunting.”

In Uvalde, relatives, school mates and friends of Amerie Jo Garza, who turned 10
on 10 May, just two weeks before she was gunned down, will gather on Monday at
the funeral home directly across the street from Robb elementary school where
the massacre happened last Tuesday.

Terrified children had fled to the Hillcrest Memorial funeral home a few yards
away as the gunman wreaked carnage at the school, also killing two teachers, and
now Amerie Jo and more of the dead are there in caskets, waiting to be laid to
rest in the town devastated by a senseless atrocity.

Amerie Jo Garza will be buried on Tuesday, one week after the shooting, with a
service at the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Uvalde, where the US president
and first lady Jill Biden attended a service during their visit on Sunday,
before meeting with bereaved families, survivors and first responders.



Also on Monday, at another funeral home, there is a wake for Maite Rodriguez,
also 10, with her funeral also scheduled for Tuesday. Her obituary said she
dreamt of becoming a marine biologist, with a picture of a dolphin and the
girl’s smiling face.

Many other funerals will follow in a sickening series over several weeks, as the
21 victims in a place with a population of less than 16,000 are mourned and the
funeral homes struggle to cope.

Even as the city is in shock, parents are demanding safety for their children
from gun violence – shouting out as much to Biden and Texas governor Greg Abbott
on Sunday – but asking more agonizing questions about why armed police waited
for more than an hour outside the classroom where the gunman was killing so
many.

One onlooker during Biden’s visit to Uvalde shouted out: “Our children do not
deserve this”, another called out “do something”, to which he responded “We
will” in his only public comments on Sunday.

Amerie Jo’s family described her as a “sassy little diva”. Her father, Alfred
Garza, criticized inaction on gun safety laws, which allowed an 18-year-old
local man legally to buy assault rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition
that he used to perpetrate the killings last week.

“We should have more restrictions, especially if these kids [the gunmen] are not
in their right state of mind and all they want to do is just hurt people,
especially innocent children going to school,” Garza said.

As well as demands for gun safety, agonized questions continue to pile up over
why local armed police waited for more than an hour outside the classroom where
the teenage gunman was killing so many, seemingly violating state policy.

Garza said his daughter had received a cellphone for her birthday and used it to
dial the 911 emergency number as the shooting unfolded in her classroom. But the
series of calls made by children and adults at the school were in vain.

The US Department of Justice is now going to review the police response. Federal
agents from border patrol entered the classroom and shot dead the gunman,
Salvador Ramos, an estimated 80 minutes after he entered the school and locked
himself inside with his victims.

Parent Javier Cazares had raced to Robb elementary, his daughter’s school, when
he heard there was a shooting, leaving his truck running with the door open as
he ran into the school yard. He is a gun owner but, in his rush in the
emergency, he didn’t have it with him.

He recounted how he spent the next 35 to 45 excruciating minutes scanning the
children fleeing school for his nine-year-old “firecracker” daughter Jacklyn.

All the while, he yearned to run in himself – and grew increasingly agitated,
along with other parents, that the police weren’t doing more to stop the gunman.

“A lot of us were arguing with the police, ‘You all need to go in there. You all
need to do your jobs,”’ said Cazares, an Army veteran. “We were ready to go to
work and rush in.”

Uvalde is a predominantly Latino community that sits among vegetable fields
halfway between San Antonio and the US-Mexico border.

The tragedy represents the deadliest school shooting since Sandy Hook,
Connecticut, in December, 2012, when 26 people were killed at the elementary
school.




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