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Robb Elementary School shooting
Part of mass shootings in the United States
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First responders at the school after the shooting
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Location of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas
LocationRobb Elementary School,
715 Old Carrizo Road
Uvalde, Texas, U.S.
Coordinates29°11′58″N 99°47′18″W / 29.19944°N 99.78833°W / 29.19944; -99.78833
DateMay 24, 2022 (2022-05-24)
c. 11:30 a.m. – c. 12:50 p.m. (UTC−05:00)
Attack type
School shooting, mass shooting, massacre, mass murder
WeaponsDaniel Defense (DDM4 V7) AR-15 style rifle[1][2]
Deaths22 (including the perpetrator)
Injured18 (including the perpetrator's grandmother at home)[3]
PerpetratorSalvador Rolando Ramos
MotiveUnknown

On May 24, 2022, 18-year-old Salvador Rolando Ramos fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers, and wounded seventeen other people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Earlier that day, Ramos had shot his grandmother in the forehead, severely wounding her. After firing shots outside the school for approximately five minutes,[4] he entered Robb Elementary School, armed with an AR-15 style rifle, through an open side entrance door,[5] without encountering armed resistance.[6] Ramos locked himself inside a classroom, in which he killed all of the shooting's victims, and remained there for about one hour before being killed by a United States Border Patrol BORTAC tactical team.[7] It is the third-deadliest American school shooting, after the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012,[8] and the deadliest ever in Texas history.[9][10][11]

Law enforcement officials were criticized for their actions in response to the shooting. After initially praising first responders to the shooting, Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for an investigation of the lack of action by incident commanders. Police officers waited 78 minutes on site before breaching the classroom to engage Ramos. Police also cordoned off the school grounds, resulting in violent conflicts between police and civilians who were attempting to enter the school to rescue children.[12][13][14] Afterwards, local and state officials gave inaccurate reports of the timeline of police actions and overstated actions police took to stop Ramos.[15] The Texas Department of Public Safety acknowledged a series of errors, including the decision to delay an assault on Ramos's position.[16][17]

Following the shooting, which took place only ten days after another high-profile mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York,[18] wider discussions ensued about American gun culture and violence, gridlock in politics,[19] and law enforcement's failure to halt the attack. Some have advocated for a renewal of the federal assault weapon ban. Others criticized politicians for their perceived role in continuing to enable mass shootings.[20] Republicans have responded by resisting the implementation of gun control measures,[21][22] instead calling for increasing security measures in schools, such as armed teachers;[23][24] they also accused their opponents of politicizing the shooting.[25][26][27]

Background

Robb Elementary School in 2015

Uvalde, Texas, is a Hispanic-majority city of about 16,000 people in the South Texas region; it is located about 60 miles (97 km) from the United States–Mexico border and about 85 miles (137 km) from San Antonio.[28] In 2022, about 90% of Robb Elementary School's 600 students in second through fourth grade were Hispanic, and about 81% of the student population came from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.[29][30][31] On the day of the shooting, there had been an awards ceremony at the school, after which parents would usually sign their children out of class; however, there was not a sign-out sheet that day.[32]

The city of Uvalde spent 40% of its municipal budget on its police department in the 2019–20 fiscal year.[33][34] Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD), the school district governing Robb Elementary School, had multiple security measures in place at the time of the shooting, including four officers working within the school district and a security staff that patrolled door entrances and parking lots at secondary campuses. Since 2020, UCISD's Chief of Police is Pedro "Pete" Arredondo.[35][36] The school also uses Social Sentinel, a service that monitors Uvalde-affiliated social media accounts to identify threats made against students or staff in UCISD.[37] UCISD had also hosted an active shooter scenario training exercise in March 2022, which covered a range of topics, such as solo responses to active shooters, first aid and evacuation, and scenarios enacted through roleplaying. The exercise also covered the ability to compare and contrast an active shooter situation versus a barricaded subject or hostage crisis where an armed person isolates themselves with limited to no ability to harm others.[38]

Events

Shooting

On May 24, 2022, Salvador Rolando Ramos and his 66-year-old grandmother had an argument over a phone bill at their home in Uvalde, during which he shot her in the forehead before taking her Ford pickup truck.[39][40][41] She survived and sought help from neighbors while police officers were called in.[42] She was then airlifted to a hospital in San Antonio in critical condition.[43][44] Using his Facebook account, Ramos sent three private messages to a 15-year-old girl from Germany whom he had met online prior to the shooting:[45] the first to say that he was going to shoot his grandmother; a second to say that he had shot his grandmother; and a third, about 15 minutes before the shooting, to say that he was going to open fire at an elementary school.[46][47][48] A spokesperson for Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said the posts were "private one-to-one text messages" discovered after the shooting took place.[47]

Ramos crashed his grandmother's truck through a barricade and into a concrete ditch outside Robb Elementary School at 11:28 a.m. CDT (UTC–5).[42][49] According to police and security camera footage, he was wearing a plate carrier—a type of tactical vest—without armor inserts,[50][51] a backpack, and all-black clothing, while carrying an AR-15 style rifle and standard capacity magazines;[42] he was also initially reported to have a handgun,[52] and he used only one of the two rifles he legally bought.[53] A witness said he first fired at two people at a nearby funeral home, both of whom fled uninjured.[54] Police reported receiving 9-1-1 calls about a vehicle having crashed near the school.[49][55][56] After hearing of the 9-1-1 call, a school resource officer drove to the school's campus and pursued a teacher who they erroneously believed to be the gunman, driving past Ramos in the process.[57] Ramos then dropped a black ammunition bag and ventured further into the school.[58] Ramos walked into the school at 11:33 a.m. through an exit door on the school's west side that had previously been propped open by a teacher at 11:27 a.m., who had been running to another classroom to get a phone.[59] UCISD's police chief estimated that the shooting began at 11:32; according to a Facebook post by the school, the school was locked down at 11:43 in response to gunshots heard in the vicinity.[60]

After entering the building, Ramos walked down two short hallways and then entered a classroom that was internally connected to another classroom.[46] A survivor of the shooting said that, as teacher Irma Garcia attempted to lock the door to the classroom, Ramos shot the door's window, then backed Garcia into the classroom and said "Goodnight" as he shot and killed her. Another survivor said that Ramos said "You're all gonna die" after entering the classroom.[61] Ramos proceeded to barricade himself inside the classroom and open fire on the rest of the students and another teacher in the room.[62][63] All of the victims, including the students and two teachers, were located in the fourth grade classroom where he locked the door.[64]

The majority of the shooting occurred inside the building within the first few minutes; Ramos was in the building for 40 to 60 minutes while armed police remained outside the classroom and building.[15] Multiple students played dead while the shooting took place.[39] According to a student who hid in the adjoining classroom, Ramos came in and slightly crouched down, saying "It's time to die", before opening fire.[65] Afterwards, a responding officer called out, "Yell if you need help!" A girl in the adjoining classroom responded, "Help"; Ramos heard the girl, entered the classroom, and shot her.[66] The student said that the officer then barged into the classroom, and Ramos fired at the officer, causing more officers to start shooting at Ramos.[66] Ramos fired a total of 116 rounds.[67] Officers arrived four minutes after Ramos entered the school and attempted to make entry, but they retreated after he fired at them.[68] Officers were not successful in establishing negotiations with Ramos.[69]

Additional emergency response and Ramos's death

Police lines set up outside of Robb Elementary School

The United States Marshals Service drove nearly 70 miles (110 km) to the school and arrived at 12:10 p.m. where they helped officers initially confront the shooter, render first aid, and secure the perimeter.[70] At 12:17, UCISD sent out a message on Twitter that there was an active shooter at the elementary school.[71] The school district's police chief, Pedro "Pete" Arredondo, erroneously determined that the situation had "transitioned from an active shooter to a barricaded subject" according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). With Ramos thought to be contained, officials believed they had bought enough time to bring in tactical units.[72]

After the police cordoned the outside of the school, parents pleaded with officers to enter the building. When they did not, parents offered to enter the building themselves.[73][74] Officers held back and tackled parents who tried to enter the school, further warning that they would use tasers if the parents did not comply with directions; video clips were uploaded to social media, including one that depicted a parent being pinned to the ground.[75] A parent was pepper-sprayed while trying to get to their child, and a father was tackled. Police reportedly used a taser on a parent who approached a bus to get their child.[14] A mother of two students at the school was placed in handcuffs by officers for attempting to enter the school.[76] When released from the handcuffs, she jumped the fence and retrieved her children, exiting before police entered.[76] Some police officers were reported to have entered the school early to retrieve their own children while other parents were being blocked from entering outside.[77][78]

According to a Texas DPS lieutenant, first responding officers had insufficient manpower and were unable to enter the classroom, and they instead evacuated children and teachers by breaking windows around the school.[46][58] Ramos stayed in the classroom for around one hour, hiding behind a steel door that officers were unable to open until they obtained a master key from the janitor.[79][80]

A Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) agent rushed to the scene after receiving a text message from his wife, a teacher there. Prior to this, the officer had been off-duty and was about to get a haircut before receiving the news. The officer immediately set out with a shotgun his barber had lent him and arrived on scene approximately an hour after the first responders arrived.[81] Additional BORTAC agents arrived, but they did not have a battering ram or other breaching tools, so a U.S. Marshal on scene provided agents with a ballistic shield. After the door was unlocked, a BORTAC agent entered the room holding the shield, followed by two other BORTAC agents, a Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue agent (BORSTAR), and at least one sheriff's deputy. Ramos reportedly opened fire at the group from a closet in the room before officials returned fire and killed him.[82] As UCISD officers exchanged fire with Ramos, BORTAC agents joined them in response to a request for assistance; one sustained an injury.[83] According to Governor Greg Abbott, the injured Border Patrol agent fatally shot Ramos.[84]

Timeline of events

The timeline underwent numerous changes.[85] Below is the timeline according to the DPS director.[86]

Time[87][80][88]
 Event
11:27 a.m. Video shows an exterior door of the school being propped open by a teacher.
11:28 a.m. Ramos crashes his grandmother's car into the ditch and exits the vehicle armed.
11:30 a.m. First 9-1-1 call placed to Uvalde Police. A 9-1-1 call was placed by a teacher, and the US Marshals Service reported to receive a call for assistance from a Uvalde police officer.
11:31 a.m. Ramos, who is outside of the school, begins shooting into classrooms. At the same time, a patrol officer arrives.
11:33 a.m. Ramos enters the school, through a propped open door, and begins shooting in interconnected classrooms 111 and 112.
11:35 a.m. Seven police officers enter the school. Three officers approach the closed door to the classroom Ramos is in, and two officers are grazed with bullets.
11:42 a.m. A teacher reportedly texted someone that there was an active shooter on school campus.
11:43 a.m. The school announces on Facebook a lockdown of the school "due to gunshots in the area", stating that "students and staff are safe in the building."
11:44 a.m. Officers request more resources, equipment, body armor, negotiators and begin evacuating students.
12:03 p.m. Nineteen law enforcement officers gather in the hallway to the classrooms but do not enter the classroom Ramos was in because the incident commander, Pete Arredondo, was treating the situation as one with a "barricaded subject" instead of an "active shooter".[89] Arredondo believed that no more lives were at risk at the time, and wanted more equipment and officers before conducting a tactical breach.[90]
12:03 p.m. A female student calls from classroom 112, identifies herself and the classroom number, after a minute and 23 seconds she ends the call.
12:10 p.m. First group of deputy US Marshals arrive at the school to assist.
12:13 p.m. The student in classroom 112 calls 9-1-1 reporting multiple dead in the classroom.
12:15 p.m. Some members of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit arrive at the school with shields.
12:16 p.m.

The same student from classroom 112 calls 9-1-1 again, reporting that eight to nine students are still alive in the classroom.

12:17 p.m. Robb Elementary announces by its Facebook page there is an active shooter at the school and authorities are on scene.
12:19 p.m.

Another student from classroom 111 calls 9-1-1 but hangs up when another student tells her to end the call.

12:21 p.m.

Three shots are heard in a 9-1-1 call.

12:36 p.m.

The same student from classroom 112 calls 9-1-1 again, reporting that Ramos has shot a door. She is instructed to stay on the line and be very quiet.

12:43 p.m. Student in classroom 112 asked 9-1-1 to please send the police now.
12: 46 p.m. Student in classroom 112 states she can hear the police next door.
12:47 p.m. Student in classroom 112 asked for 9-1-1 to please send the police now, again.
12:50 p.m. Federal law enforcement uses the janitor's master key to unlock the door Ramos has locked, and they enter the classroom. Ramos, who is in a closet, kicks open the door and starts shooting. They open fire and kill him.

Victims

Nineteen students and two teachers were killed in the shooting:[91][92]

Students
  • Nevaeh Bravo, 10
  • Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares, 9
  • Makenna Lee Elrod, 10
  • Jose Flores, 10
  • Eliana Garcia, 9
  • Uziyah Garcia, 9
  • Amerie Jo Garza, 10
  • Xavier Javier Lopez, 10
  • Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, 10
  • Tess Marie Mata, 10
  • Maranda Mathis, 11
  • Alithia Ramirez, 10
  • Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10
  • Maite Yuleana Rodriguez, 10
  • Alexandria Aniyah Rubio, 10
  • Layla Salazar, 11
  • Jailah Nicole Silguero, 11
  • Eliahana Cruz Torres, 10
  • Rogelio Torres, 10
Teachers
  • Irma Garcia, 48
  • Eva Mireles, 44

The children were in the second, third, and fourth grades.[93] The teachers, Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles, taught in the same fourth-grade classroom.[94][95]

Seventeen people were reported injured, including two police officers.[3] Abbott said the two officers were struck by bullets but had no serious injuries.[83][96] Uvalde Memorial Hospital's CEO reported that eleven children and three other people were admitted for emergency care following the shooting.[31] Four were released, and two, described only as a male and a female, were dead upon arrival.[97] Several other victims were taken to the University Hospital in San Antonio.[3]

Perpetrator

Salvador Rolando Ramos (May 16, 2004 – May 24, 2022), was born in North Dakota. He was a resident of Uvalde and a former student at Uvalde High School.[98] He had neither a criminal record nor any documented mental health issues.[46] According to his classmates and some of his friends, he had a stutter and a strong lisp, for which he was often bullied; he frequently had fistfights with classmates, occasionally with boxing gloves that he carried around with him, and he had few friends. Ramos was scheduled to finish high school in 2022, but his frequent absences made his graduation unlikely. He eventually dropped out of school.[79][99]

Social media acquaintances of Ramos said he openly abused animals such as cats and would livestream the abuse on Yubo.[100] Other social media acquaintances said that Ramos would also livestream himself on Yubo threatening to kidnap and rape girls who used the app, as well as threatening to commit a school shooting.[101] Ramos' account was reported to Yubo, but no action was taken.[101] Up until a month before the shooting, he worked at a local Wendy's and had been employed there for at least a year. According to the store's night manager, he went out of his way to keep to himself.[102] One of Ramos's coworkers said he was occasionally rude to his female coworkers, to whom he sent inappropriate text messages, and would intimidate coworkers at his job by asking them, "Do you know who I am?"[79]

A year before the shooting, Ramos started posting pictures to his Instagram account of automatic rifles that were on his wish-list. According to a friend of Ramos, he would often drive around at night with another friend, shooting at strangers with a BB gun and egging cars. According to a man who was in a relationship with his mother, Ramos moved out of his mother's house and into his grandparents' house two months before the shooting, after an argument broke out between him and his mother over her turning off the Wi-Fi.[47] People close to Ramos' family described his mother as a drug user and said Ramos and his mother argued frequently.[99] He posted a video of himself on Instagram aggressively arguing with his mother and referring to her as a "bitch".[when?][103] Ramos' mother described her son as "not a monster" but admitted that he could "be aggressive".[104] His grandfather said that his grandson did not have a driver's license and did not know how to drive.[40] According to Ramos' father, Ramos had a girlfriend, who lived in San Antonio.[105] On May 14, Ramos sent a private Instagram message reading "10 more days...",[101] to which a person responded, "Are you going to shoot up a school or something?" Ramos replied, "No, stop asking dumb questions. You'll see."[101]

In September 2021, Ramos asked his older sister to buy him a gun, but she flatly refused.[106] Ramos legally purchased a Smith & Wesson assault-style semi-automatic rifle from a local gun store on May 17, 2022, a day after his 18th birthday, and he purchased another rifle three days later.[107][50] He also sent an Instagram message to an acquaintance he met through Yubo, which showed a receipt for an AR-15 style rifle purchased from Georgia-based online retailer Daniel Defense eight days before the shooting.[1][108][109] He then posted a picture of two rifles on his Instagram account three days before the shooting.[110] On May 18, 2022, he purchased 375 rounds of 5.56 NATO ammunition.[50]

Aftermath

UCISD asked parents not to pick up their children until all Robb Elementary School students were accounted for. At around 2:00 p.m., parents were notified to pick them up. All district and campus activities were canceled, and the parents of students at other schools were asked to pick up their children due to school bus cancellations.[37] That night, UCISD's superintendent announced in a letter sent to parents that the school year had concluded for the entire district, including the cancelation of a planned graduation ceremony. The school year had previously been scheduled to end that Thursday.[111] Some parents had to wait late into the night for final confirmation of their child's death, awaiting DNA identification.[58] Multiple survivors from the shooting have expressed their fear of returning to school.[112][113]In the wake of the shooting, Donna Independent School District, which serves Donna, Texas, an area four and a half hours from Uvalde, received a "credible threat of violence". In response, the district cancelled school while it investigated the threat.[114]

The South Texas Blood and Tissue Center issued an urgent request for blood donations after the shooting, and it sent 15 units of blood to Uvalde via helicopter to be used in area hospitals.[115] Uvalde Memorial Hospital held an emergency blood drive for the victims.[116] On May 27, the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center reported that more than 2,000 people donated blood after the tragedy.[117]

A memorial set up outside Robb Elementary school for the victims of the shooting

Shortly after the shooting, a memorial was created outside the school for the victims and survivors with balloons, candles, and crosses. A local man spent at least a day on creating 21 crosses, which were inscribed with the names of the victims, to be placed outside the school.[118][119] Additional memorials were erected for the deceased victims throughout Uvalde by both locals and those who drove into the city to honor the victims.[120] Other memorials and tributes were held throughout the country.[121] Free headstones and funeral services were offered to the families of victims by local and state businesses.[122][123] State and locally based food trucks and restaurant owners also traveled to Uvalde to offer food and supplies for families affected by the shooting.[124] The San Antonio Zoo announced they would light up their parking garage in Robb Elementary school's colors for 21 days to honor each of the 21 victims.[125]

Joe Garcia, the husband of Irma Garcia, one of the teachers killed in the shooting, died two days after the shooting from a heart attack while attending a memorial. His family said the heart attack was tied to grief after losing his wife.[126][127][128] UCISD created a fund through the First State Bank, with the money raised going to the families of the victims and survivors with donations accepted in person or by check.[129] On May 27, it was announced that an anonymous donor had donated $175,000 to go towards the funerals of the victims.[130] Fundraising was also seen on the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, which set up a central hub for people looking to donate to help those affected by the shooting, in an effort to stop scammers from taking advantage of the tragedy.[131] As of May 27, about $7.5 million had been raised through the hub, from donors across the U.S. and from over 91 countries.[117] Additional fundraisers for the victims and their families were done through many avenues, such as item sales or proceeds from a BBQ.[132][133]

Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) are assisting local police in the investigation.[43][134] Ramos' guns and magazines were recovered by law enforcement for analysis.[83]

After initially praising first responders, Governor Greg Abbott called for an investigation into the lack of initiative displayed by law enforcement. On May 27, Abbott said, "Bottom line would be why did they not choose the strategy that would have been best to get in there and to eliminate the killer and to rescue the children?"[135]

Law enforcement failures and controversies

Confronting the shooter and students' parents

File:Armed officer outside Robb Elementary School.png
An armed police officer outside Robb Elementary School, May 24, 2022

Before tactical units arrived, police officers inside the school, who numbered at least 19, made "no effort" to breach the room where Ramos was located according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). According to DPS, the decision to wait for tactical units to arrive was based on the false belief that the shooter had been isolated to a classroom where he could do no more harm.[57] This decision was made by Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Chief of Police Pedro "Pete" Arredondo, the Incident Commander of the response at the Robb Elementary School shooting.[36]

Akela Lacy of The Intercept wrote an article titled "Cops Didn't Stop the Uvalde Shooting" with the subtitle: "And they might have made it even worse."[33] The Daily Beast wrote, "The harrowing video from the scene seems to make the police response all the more baffling."[136] Police arrested and handcuffed one mother who drove to the school after hearing about the shooting, which prevented her from trying to save her children.[13][14]

At a May 26 press conference, when asked whether first responders had erred in waiting for reinforcements, a DPS official said he did not "have enough information to answer that question yet."[69] Uvalde Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez defended his officers in a statement May 26, saying, "It is important for our community to know that our officers responded within minutes."[137] Former Austin and Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo tweeted, "We don't have all of the particulars right now, but when gunfire is ringing out with, police are trained, expected, and required to engage, engage, engage. This is a moral and ethical obligation."[69]

On May 27, the DPS acknowledged a number of law enforcement errors that potentially led to greater bloodshed.[57] At a news conference, Steven C. McCraw, the DPS director, said, "From the benefit of hindsight where I'm sitting now, of course it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision. Period."[36]

Inaccurate initial statements by Texas authorities

Officials gave conflicting explanations of the events of the shooting. DPS officials initially reported that a school resource officer had engaged the shooter outside the building before he entered; they later confirmed there was no school resource officer on campus.[15][14] DPS made the correction that he "walked in unobstructed" through an apparently unlocked door.[81][138] Vice reported that "Texas law enforcement officials are being strangely opaque about what actually happened during the shooting."[139] They further reiterated the "police timeline ... has a lot of holes."[139] At press conferences it called "chaotic and confusing", The Texas Tribune wrote that officials "refused to answer many questions about the tactics" the officers used.[15] On May 26, Representative Joaquin Castro of Texas called for the FBI to investigate the conflicting narratives of law enforcement officials.[140]

On May 27, Abbott stated at a press conference he was "misled" and given "inaccurate" information by law enforcement agencies, stating, "I'm absolutely livid about that."[141] The HuffPost wrote Abbott "stopped short of offering an apology for repeating [the misleading information]".[142] CNN reported that Mayor Don McLaughlin, who sat by Abbott at the press conference, was "left as dumbfounded as the governor by the changing stories of law enforcement."[143]

Responses

Ramos's parents

Ramos's mother stated that she had no explanation for her son's attack on the school but that Ramos "had his reasons for doing what he did and please don't judge him. I only want the innocent children who died to forgive me." His father, also named Salvador Ramos, expressed his apologies for his son's actions and stated, "He should've just killed me, you know, instead of doing something like that."[144]

Reactions from politicians

President Joe Biden delivering a speech about the shooting on May 24, 2022.

Representatives for President Joe Biden, who was returning to the United States from a trip to Asia, announced that he had been briefed on the shooting and would be making public remarks later that evening after arriving back home.[145][146] He ordered flags to be flown at half-staff,[146] and spoke to Texas Governor Greg Abbott from Air Force One.[147]

The shooting was condemned by former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.[148][149][150] Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) described the attack as an "unbelievably tragic and horrible crime", and she expressed support for red flag laws that help restrict potentially violent individuals from accessing firearms.[151] Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), a gun rights supporter who opposes expanding gun control regulations, called the shooting "yet another act of evil and mass murder". He offered his prayers to the families and children affected by the shooting, and said that the country has seen "too many of these shootings."[152] Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) blamed the shooting on wokeness and critical race theory.[153]

The day after the shooting, Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) falsely claimed that its perpetrator was a "transsexual leftist illegal alien" in a tweet, which was taken down two hours after it was posted.[154] The falsehood was based on a rumor started by an anonymous poster on the /pol/ imageboard on 4chan, who posted the Reddit account of a transgender woman and claimed that she was the shooter. The rumor was spread by Alex Jones and Candace Owens, and photos of the woman were widely shared on social media, including in conservative Facebook groups, where the Reddit user was falsely identified as the shooter and harassed.[155][156]

Texas Senator John Cornyn meeting with local Uvalde leaders

During a press conference regarding the shooting held by Abbott in Uvalde on May 25, Abbott blamed the shooting on "a problem with mental health illness" in the local community; he added that Ramos had no known criminal or mental health history.[157] Beto O'Rourke, the Democratic candidate in the 2022 Texas gubernatorial election, confronted Abbott during the press conference by telling him, "You said this was not predictable – this was totally predictable, and you choose not to do anything." Don McLaughlin, the Republican mayor of Uvalde since 2014,[158] told O'Rourke to leave the press conference, calling him a "sick son of a bitch" who was making "a political issue", before O'Rourke was escorted out of the auditorium.[27][159] O'Rourke later criticized Abbott for reducing mental health services and expanding gun access to 18-year-olds.[157][160][161]

Internationally, the shooting was condemned by various governments and politicians, including by the Government of Mexico,[162] which said it was working with American authorities to identify Mexican victims in the shooting.[163] Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition leader Keir Starmer both paid tribute to the victims in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.[164] The shooting was also denounced by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,[162][165] Chinese diplomat Wang Wenbin,[166] the European Union ambassador to the United States Stavros Lambrinidis,[162] French President Emmanuel Macron,[162][167] German Chancellor Olaf Scholz,[162] Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett,[168] New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern,[162][169] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,[162][170] United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres,[171] and Pope Francis.[172] The human-rights group Amnesty International said, "Among wealthier, developed countries, the U.S.A. is an outlier when it comes to firearm violence. U.S. governments have allowed gun violence to become a human rights crisis."[162]

Gun control discussions

President Biden delivered a speech on the shooting and asked, "When in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?"[173] His lack of a concrete plan attracted controversy from gun control activists.[174] In a speech given on the night of the shooting, Vice President Kamala Harris reacted to the shooting by calling for policy changes to prevent similar shootings.[148] Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the U.S. to pass stricter gun control measures, and he urged Republican members of Congress to resist influence from the National Rifle Association (NRA), a gun-rights lobby that Democrats have long blamed for Republican lawmakers' resistance to supporting gun control.[175]

The NRA-ILA's annual leadership forum on May 27 in Houston drew heavy criticism in light of the recent shooting. Former President Donald Trump, Governors Kristi Noem and Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, and Representative Dan Crenshaw were previously scheduled to give remarks;[176] however, Cornyn and Crenshaw subsequently cancelled their attendances, and Abbott announced that he would instead appear at a news conference in Uvalde and send pre-recorded remarks to the NRA convention.[177] Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of a firearm used in the shooting, decided not to attend.[178] At the event, Trump and other Republicans rejected gun reforms, with Senator Cruz blaming mass shootings on a "cultural sickness" based on video games and fatherless children, and instead advocated for arming teachers and redesigning schools to have only one entrance and exit.[179] Gun safety advocacy groups such as Moms Demand Action and March for Our Lives, as well as local teachers' unions, Black Lives Matter chapters, the Harris County Democratic Party, and Beto O'Rourke protested outside the convention with thousands of attendees.[179]

Top Texas Republican officials, such as Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan of Beaumont, Attorney General Ken Paxton, Representative Tony Gonzales of San Antonio, and Senators Cornyn and Cruz, resisted the possibility of increased gun control measures.[180][181] Abbott said that tougher gun regulations were "not a real solution".[180] Instead of gun control,[21][22] many Senate Republicans called for increasing security presence in schools, limiting entryways into schools, and arming teachers and other school officials.[23][24] Senator Ron Johnson promoted the Luke and Alex Safety Act, which would create a national database of school safety practices, but it was blocked by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who said that the Senate was "going to vote on gun legislation."[182] Senator Cruz commented that some politicians would politicize the shooting to push for stricter gun reforms.[25][26] Users on social media accused Cruz of hypocrisy for accepting money from gun interest groups, and for planning to speak at the NRA's annual meeting being held in Houston with Abbott and Cornyn.[152]

Manuel Oliver, a gun control activist and the father of a Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victim, issued a statement expressing his outrage, and said that the families of the victims do not need the thoughts and prayers of politicians; instead, "they need their kids."[183] Several families of victims in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting spoke out, with several calling for stricter gun control.[184] Activist Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed during the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, also called for politicians to enact stricter gun control, and expressed support for the families of Robb Elementary School victims.[185] Gun manufacturer Daniel Defense was met with social media criticism in the wake of the shooting, including criticism of a since-deleted Twitter post made on May 16 depicting a child holding a Daniel Defense rifle, causing the company to make many of its social media accounts private.[186][187]

In a press conference during the 2022 NBA playoffs, Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr expressed his outrage at the refusal of American politicians to implement laws on gun control,[188] while the Miami Heat urged their fans to contact state senators "demanding their support for common sense gun laws".[189] The social media accounts for New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays began posting facts about gun violence during a game in St. Petersburg, Florida.[190][191]

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