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A gunman killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school. Eighteen of those victims were children, and Black Twitter is already bracing itself for, and calling out, the pending “thoughts & prayers” jig from politicians who will give all the lip service, and not deliver any feasible gun legislation.
The massacre occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde County, Texas.
Reports the New York Times:
A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, killing 14 children and a teacher, in the deadliest shooting at an elementary school since the devastating attack at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012.
Police officers are believed to have killed the gunman, Gov. Greg Abbott said at a news conference. Mr. Abbott later said that the gunman had been a student at a nearby high school.
The assailant was identified by state police as Salvador Ramos, 18. The suspect abandoned his vehicle and entered Robb Elementary School with a handgun and possibly a rifle, Mr. Abbott said.
Senator Chris Murphy knows the deal, that his GOP colleagues will likely continue to obstruct any sort of meaningful legislation. But he’s literally begging for their help anyway.
“Why are you here?!"
A furious Sen. Chris Murphy demands answers from senators following Texas school shooting.
“Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate…if your answer, is as the slaughter increases, as our kids run for their lives—we do nothing?” pic.twitter.com/9fkJ13vWGd
— ABC News (@ABC) May 24, 2022
Don’t hold your breath.
As actress Quinta Brunson has already noted, you can bank on the excuse to keep rolling in—with those “pro life” folking never actually blaming the guns.
every time this happens I watch the conversation move toward the why. Mental health, race, class, domestic dispute etc. I kind of can’t stand that because all it does is protect the only constant in each case: a gun.
— quinta brunson (@quintabrunson) May 24, 2022
Black Twitter, and People With Sense Twitter, has its eye squarely on the jig, and is calling it out as loudly as possible. See below.
This story is developing.
Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez says he was just told by the Texas Rangers that 18 children and 3 adults have been killed in the #Uvalde elementary school shooting pic.twitter.com/Lm4UKm6EFW
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 24, 2022
There is no such thing as being “pro-life” while supporting laws that let children be shot in their schools, elders in grocery stores, worshippers in their houses of faith, survivors by abusers, or anyone in a crowded place.
It is an idolatry of violence. And it must end.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 24, 2022
you can't be serious right now https://t.co/ClATMc5HMa pic.twitter.com/Eyse03npbf
— CHRIS FOXX (@FoxxFiles) May 24, 2022
Today is the 144th day of 2022.
The Uvalde shooting is the 212th mass shooting of 2022.
Gun violence is a public health crisis.
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) May 24, 2022
1.
Elementary school bro, these kids were supposed to enjoy their summer vacation that was coming up.
— Ahmed
/Skylar Diggins I need you lol (@big_business_) May 24, 2022
2.
It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity—it’s inhumanity.
— Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman) May 24, 2022
4.
Sandy Hook really could have been the end of it all. But here we are.
— Patience. (@patiencezalanga) May 24, 2022
5.
Just to be clear fuck you @tedcruz you fucking baby killer.
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) May 24, 2022
6.
Breaks my heart hearing this news, no parent should ever have to lose there child. Praying for the families of those kids and the teacher
… this is devastating
— Jayson Tatum (@jaytatum0) May 24, 2022
7.
There is no logical (or legal) reason, even with hunting, for a private citizen to own a semi-automatic rifle. Full stop.
— Naima Cochrane (@naima) May 24, 2022
8.
Columbine survivor here. My oldest son just finished his first year of college. This is America. There is no end in sight for the steady cadence of mass gun violence we seem unwilling to ever address. A reality my peers could not have imagined on our worst day in April 1999.
— Craig Nason (@nasoncraig) May 24, 2022
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14 children. And a week after Buffalo. It’s just unbearable.
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) May 24, 2022