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So completely sickening

Just two days before students at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, were set to begin their summer break, an 18-year-old lone gunman rushed his way into the school and opened fire on classrooms of young children, killing 19 students and two adults, officials said. The gunman was killed by law enforcement and is also believed to have shot his grandmother before carrying out the attack, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. In a national address last night, President Joe Biden called on the US to turn its collective pain into political action. Authorities are continuing to search for clues about the gunman's motive. Yesterday's tragic event marks the deadliest school shooting in nearly a decade since 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. It is so sad that it was innocent children who perished. God bless them and may they rest in peace
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LilymoonF
Tragically unavoidable if there were gun laws. 馃槗
SW-User
@Lilymoon My thoughts exactly馃槳
Anon06631-35, M
@Lilymoon what gun laws would've stopped it?
LilymoonF
@Anon066 Amp up or prohibit the sale of firearms?
Anon06631-35, M
@Lilymoon amp up how, prohibit who?
@Lilymoon I think in this case it would have been hard. He was of legal age and had no history of criminality or mental illness so he would have slipped by even the most stringent gun control measures. The only thing that may have stopped it is banning the sale of pretty much all firearms but that will never happen. I definitely believe in stringent gun control but I also believe in identifying people suffering from mental illness and getting them help before they commit these types of atrocities. Some people can't be helped and the first sign of trouble is when they go on a shooting spree in those cases I'm not sure what you can do 馃槥