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Uvalde Shooter

I've read so many false premises I figured I would fill in the knowledge gaps with what I have learned about Salvador Ramos, age 18, murderer of 19 children and 2 teachers. I learned all this from listening to the news.

His mother is a drug addict. She is still alive, and lives in a second house owned by the grandmother, who is trying to evict her for non payment of rent.

His father is completely absent. No one knows where he is.

Abandoned by both parents, he was being raised by his grandmother and still lived with her. He was no longer in school.

He was deeply, deeply troubled, and people who knew him described him as a loner, which is a warning sign in troubled kids. People who tried to befriend him quickly unfriended him because he would say shocking things and was so "out there". He was known to cut himself. He cut up his own FACE and told people it was for fun.

His grandmother is still alive and in serious condition, and if she survives she will be able to provide more information about WHY he started shooting.

The fact that Salvador was age 18 and was no longer in school would have made it almost impossible to commit him for treatment under any existing red flag law for students.
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SW-User
It's a failure in and of society way beyond parental and familial neglect.
And that is a sad thing, what someone's life can be and is the truth of so many.

I'm still not sure why someone has to kill innocent children along the way. To me, that's not excusable.
SW-User
@SW-User there's absolutely no excuse for killing innocent kids and people in general
4meAndyou · F
@SW-User The governor was there this afternoon, trying to give help and support to all the families, and he asked the police and border patrol what they felt was the greatest thing that community was lacking, that might have led to this, and they all said, "Adequate mental health facilities".

Apparently in the town of Uvalde if you need mental health care you have to drive to San Antonio, 40 miles away, and 40 miles back. A sick kid without parental support of ANY kind, only a grandmother, (and who knows whether or not she was kind or nasty or helpful or supportive? I don't.), would not be able to get to San Antonio and back by himself.

That led to a discussion of mental illness vs evil...and how you can call someone who is mentally ill evil...and the answer was....anyone who decides to shoot their grandmother in the face and then goes off intentionally, planning to shoot little innocent school children...is evil.