Here we go again! Another horrible horrible tragedy in Uvalde, Texas at Robb Elementary School where 19 fourth grade students and two teachers lost their lives on Tuesday as the school year was ending.
Salvador Ramos, 18, who went in an unlocked back door of the school, used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle to do this evil act. Seventeen people were also wounded.
He had legally purchased two rifles of this type just days after his birthday.
Before he entered the school, he had shot his grandmother, who survived, and wrecked a vehicle on the way there.
He managed to get past a SRO officer and enter the classroom where he did the shooting. According to news reports, he had 1,657 rounds of ammunition with him.
These people that go to schools, churches and other public places are loaded with ammunition and the best of guns. Really, one person in security is no match for this type of person once they are inside the place they intend to shoot up.The person doing the shooting already knows they will die when other law enforcement shows up. But that doesn’t phase them.
One child told how she placed her fingers in the blood of her classmate laying next to her and rubbed it on herself to make the gunman think she was dead.
What can we do to stop these awful crimes?
In my opinion, there needs to be a law that makes it illegal for this type of assault rifle to be sold to the general public. Nobody needs such a weapon except military personnel.
Background checks could possibly help. I’m sure some type of laws will be introduced into legislatures, but will probably get nowhere.
Guns are great if used as they should be. But when you start talking about gun laws that will possibly prevent tragedies like happened the other day, people instantly believe their freedoms are being threatened. So therefore, we continue in the same vein without doing anything.
