Texas, massacre in an elementary school: 19 children and two teachers killed

Ten years after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre , in which 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 27 people including 20 children, America is again in shock over an elementary school massacre .

In Uvalde, Texas , nineteen children and two teachers (Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles)   they were killed in cold blood in class by an 18-year-old boy, Salvador Ramos .

THE RECONSTRUCTION - After shooting his grandmother and having a car accident near Robb Elementary School, Ramos got out of the car with a rifle and flak jacket and tried to enter the school by overcoming the blockade of some agents : once in the building opened fire in some classrooms. The boy was then stopped by the police who killed him on the spot.

A student of a high school in the area, Ramos had bought two rifles just for his 18 years . Shortly before the massacre, he had contacted a stranger on Instagram telling her that she had a secret that she wanted to share: "I'm about to ...", without adding anything else. On his Instagram account he had posted a selfie and photos of weapons, including one with two rifles next to each other .

The massacre took place two days before the end of the school year in an area with a prevalence of Hispanics. On Friday right in Texas, in Houston, the annual convention of the National Rifle Association, the powerful arms lobby, will be held. The interventions of Donald Trump and the Governor of the State Greg Abbott are expected, criticized in these hours for having recently softened the laws on weapons. "It 's embarrassing. Texas is only second behind California for purchases of new weapons. Move", he wrote in a tweet bounced in these hours.

REACTIONS - Joe Biden , who has just returned from Asia, addresses the Americans and Congress: "We can and must do more. It is time to turn pain into action" and face the arms lobby. Speaking of yet another "massacre", the American president defines himself as "tired and angry": "Why do we want to live with this carnage? Why do we continue to allow this to happen? For heaven's sake where is our backbone? Don't come to me? to say that we cannot have an impact on these carnage. "

Vice President Kamala Harris echoes him: "When it's too much is too much, now we need to act." Barack Obama , president during the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012: "Michelle and I are alongside the families of Uvalde. But we are also angry. Our country is paralyzed not by fear, but by an arms lobby and a political party who have shown no willingness to act to prevent these tragedies. The time for action has run out, for any kind of action ".

(Unioneonline / D)