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Meanwhile, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said the Border Patrol agents had trouble breaching the classroom door and had to get a staff member to open the room with a key.

UVALDE, TX—In the hours following a violent rampage in Texas in which a lone attacker killed at least 21 individuals and injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Idaho resident Kathy Miller, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

Vilmos Tehenészfiú wrote:It just happened. Ovo kao kad devojka objašnjava momku kako ga je prevarila.

Sen. Chris Murphy delivers remarks on Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting: “What are we doing? What are we doing?…This only happens in this country and nowhere else. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day." https://t.co/Zh3OvUaIwm pic.twitter.com/TjJVoaFbRN

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 24, 2022

China urges US to take American people’s human rights seriously following Texas school shooting

Donald Trump has said the recent US school shooting is a reason to arm law-abiding citizens, not disarm them.

The former US president was a guest speaker at the National Rifle Association (NRA), which held its annual convention in Houston on Friday.

The event was held three days after 19 children and two adults were shot dead at a school in Uvalde and put in stark relief America’s deep divisions on gun control.

As demonstrations swelled in Houston, attenders inside the convention – including Trump – continued to deny that guns were the problem and put the emphasis on school safety and mental health.

He told the conference: “The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law-abiding citizens. The existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens.”

Trump accused the Democrats of trying to exploit the tragedy and demonise gun owners.

He said: “Every time a disturbed or demented person commits a hideous crime there is always a grotesque effort by some in our society to advance their own extreme political agenda.”

Trump called for the overhauling of school security and the nation’s approach to mental health, telling the group every school building should have a single point of entry, strong exterior fencing, metal detectors and hardened classroom doors, and every school should have a police officer or armed guard on duty at all times.

He also called yet again for trained teachers to be able to carry concealed weapons in the classroom.

He and other speakers overlooked the security upgrades that were already in place at the elementary school and did not stop the gunman, who entered the building through a backdoor that had been propped open.

According to a district safety plan, Uvalde schools have a wide range of safety measures in place. The district had four police officers and four support counsellors, according to the plan, which appears to be dated from the 2019-20 school year. It also had software to monitor social media for threats and software to screen school visitors.

The meeting was the first for the troubled organisation since 2019, after a two-year hiatus because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The organisation has been trying to regroup after a period of serious legal and financial turmoil that included a failed bankruptcy effort, a class-action lawsuit and a fraud investigation by New York’s attorney general.

Someone had a fantastic analogy today.
When my kid hits someone w a stick, I don't blame the stick, but I still take it away.

— Kristina (@FreemontSt) May 26, 2022

Why stop at access to guns? Why not have grenades, Semtex & dynamite for sale in Walmart? We can just discipline those who misuse it, right?

— Emlyn's Shoes (@emlynsshoes) May 26, 2022

Erős Pista wrote:Donald Trump has said the recent US school shooting is a reason to arm law-abiding citizens, not disarm them.

THERE WON’T BE ANY GUNS ALLOWED AT THE NRA ANNUAL MEETING IN TEXAS BECAUSE THEY’RE AFRAID THEY’LL GET SHOT. https://t.co/MsizIJmg0c

— Text ACT to 644-33 (@shannonrwatts) May 25, 2022

This guy here.A Fellow vet said it perfectly. I couldn’t have stated it better. #guncontrol pic.twitter.com/dg3o8RoOgo

— LifeIndiscreet (@LifeIndiscreet) May 28, 2022

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.