Uvalde School Shooter Did Not Act Alone

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At around 11:32 am on May 24, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who lived in Uvalde, Texas, opened fire in Robb Elementary School just two days before students were due to start their summer vacation. After arguing with his grandmother, with whom he had been living, he shot her with an AR-15 assault rifle that he legally purchased, drove to Robb Elementary School, and carried out a gruesome shooting that killed 21 people — 19 children, and two teachers. The news describes Ramos as a “lone gunman,” but that’s far from the truth. Men like Ramos are propped up by politicians who have spent the decades since the Columbine High School massacre failing to protect other children. he United States has an issue that has been ignored by Republicans for far too long, and the issue is gun control. Gun control is something that has repeatedly been refused in the United States but has been proven to work in other nations all around the world. It could have prevented the deaths of those 21 people at Robb Elementary School, and the many other lives lost in mass shootings. Unfortunately, the USA’s political system operates under a bipartisan system under which we have been conditioned to loathe each other which such intensity that either side will blindly disagree with whatever the opposition believes while the people of the United States die in the crossfire, literally. According to various polls conducted by legitimate and reliable research organizations, a whopping 90% of people in the country want universal background checks on gun purchases — the bare minimum of gun control that our country lacks. Yet, the push for gun control has become a shout into a void in Congress. Politicians were voted into office to reflect the values of the citizens who elected them but in America none of this matters. Instead, opposition has become a bigger priority than unity. Spare me the bulls--- about mental illness. We don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world yet we have the most killings by far than any other country in the world. You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness because we don't – we're not an outlier on mental illness. The issue isn’t political. What is political about the deaths of children? It’s not mental health, it’s not violent video games, and it’s not that there aren’t enough guns. The answer isn’t arming teachers, training kids, bullet-proof backpacks, or pleading to God to root out evil. Gun control laws do work. Scotland passed gun control laws in 1996 after a school shooting in Dunblane. There hasn’t been a school shooting in Scotland since. Republicans would rather stand by, unaffected, while hundreds of millions of Americans beg for their children’s lives.