At least 21 people have been killed in a gun attack targeting an elementary school in the United States.
According to CNN television, the gunman arrived in his car at Rob Elementary School in Uvalade, 128 kilometers west of San Antonio. The 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, had an AR-15 automatic rifle in his hand as well as a pistol.
He entered with his rifle and pistol and opened fire in the corridor, terrifying children and teachers as they searched for a place to hide.
The killings occurred when gunfire stopped at the school. It was announced that 14 students at Rob Primary School had died. It was later announced that 19 students and two teachers had lost their lives.
The University Hospital of San Antonio said in a statement on Twitter that two people had been hospitalized with gunshot wounds, one a child and the other an adult. It said the condition of the two injured, one aged 10 and the other 66 years.
Although both police officers were injured in the clash, their condition was reported to be stable.
Texas police, who intervened in the attack, killed the attacker, Salvador Ramos. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told a news conference after the attack that the attacker, a local youth named Salvador Ramos, was shot dead when police intervened.
Security forces told CBS News that the attacker was also suspected of killing his grandmother before attacking the school.
Uvalde, where 16,000 people live, is located 120 kilometers from the Mexican border. The Rob Elementary School is located in a residential area of the city, according to the Associated Press News Agency.
The attack was recorded as the deadliest school attack in Texas history. Four years ago, gunmen shot dead 10 people at Santa Fe High School in Houston.
Biden is risky
About four hours after the attack, US President Biden, who was on camera at the White House, began his speech by saying, “When I became president, I hoped it would not happen again.”
Describing the attack as “another genocide” in the United States, Biden said “beautiful, innocent, second-, third-, fourth-graders and many young children who saw the incident saw their friends die as if they were on the battlefield.”
“Losing a child is like tearing apart a piece of their soul,” said President Biden, adding that the feeling was “suffocating.”
“By God, when are we going to stand in the gun lobby?” Joe Biden called on the American people to “stand up against the gun lobby” after today’s incident:
“Tonight I ask our nation to pray for them, to give strength to their parents and siblings in the darkness that they are now experiencing. For God’s sake, when will we do what we all know we have to do? “Why are we willing to live with this murder? Why are we letting this happen? For God’s sake, where is the courage to face our backbone and stand up against lobbyists? It’s time to turn this pain into action.”
Referring to the 2012 attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six adults, Biden said, “Since then, there have been more than 900 shootings in the school area. The list goes on and on.”
“This kind of mass shooting rarely happens anywhere else in the world,” Biden said, referring to the idea that an 18-year-old boy was able to buy a gun from a store.
“I am sick and tired of it. We have to take action. And don’t tell me we will not affect this genocide,” he said, adding that not every tragedy can be prevented, but there can be laws. A positive effect; He emphasized the importance of ‘prudent gun laws’.
Another massacre two weeks ago
Two weeks ago, a gunman shot and killed 10 black customers and employees at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Authorities consider it a heinous crime.
According to the education industry magazine Edwick, there were 26 school shootings in the United States last year.
Gunshots are the leading cause of death
Speaking in the Senate on Tuesday, Democratic Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy called on his colleagues to pass gun control laws.
“These kids weren’t unlucky [saldırı] Only in this country, “Murphy said, would he not go to school in another country, thinking that young children might be shot that day.
An April survey cited shooting as the leading cause of death among American children and young people in 2020.
U.S. citizens own more than 390 million guns.
