Top Texas Republicans Call For More Guns, Fortified Schools, Armed Teachers After Attack

Several of Texas’ prime Republicans shared their ideas and prayers after a gunman opened hearth inside an elementary faculty in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, killing at the very least 19 kids and two academics. But the GOP lawmakers refused to help the opportunity of any gun management measures because the nation reels within the wake of the worst faculty taking pictures because the Sandy Hook bloodbath in 2012.

Instead, the elected officers referred to as for extra armed academics and even fortified colleges meant to maintain unhealthy actors away from kids, saying legal guidelines to restrict entry to firearms don’t work.

“Inevitably when there’s a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it, you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R) advised reporters Tuesday as dad and mom waited for information of their lacking kids, offering DNA swabs to police to assist establish the younger victims. “That doesn’t work. It’s not effective. It doesn’t prevent crime.”

He went on to say that the “most effective” software to maintain children secure in colleges is extra armed legislation enforcement on campuses.

Police mentioned the 18-year-old who attacked the varsity, recognized as Salvador Ramos, was carrying physique armor that made him tougher to cease after he crashed his automobile by means of a barricade close to Robb Elementary School. At least two legislation enforcement officers tried to interact him and have been injured within the taking pictures, The New York Times reported.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who won his GOP primary to retain his position Tuesday, additionally mentioned he would help extra armed residents in colleges to guard kids reasonably than frequent sense gun reform.

“People that are shooting people, that are killing kids, they’re not following murder laws. They’re not going to follow gun laws,” Paxton mentioned throughout an interview with Newsmax. “I’d much rather have law-abiding citizens armed and trained so that they can respond when something like this happens because it’s not going to be the last time.”

“We can’t stop bad people from doing bad things,” Paxton mentioned afterward Fox News. “We can potentially arm and prepare and train teachers and other administrators to respond quickly. That, in my opinion, is the best answer.”

President Joe Biden spoke to the nation within the hours after the assault, lambasting lawmakers for failing to take motion on gun management after an ongoing spate of shootings throughout the nation in latest days.

“As a nation, we have to ask: When in God’s name are we gonna stand up to the gun lobby … do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?” Biden mentioned from the White House. “Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep letting this happen? Where in God’s name is our backbone?”

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) rejected these assertions in an interview with Tucker Carlson — who himself accused the president of “desecrating the memory” of the kids killed within the assault — as an alternative saying colleges ought to be fortified to maintain mass shooters out.

“Obviously we have to do more. We have to harden these targets so no one can get in ever except through one entrance. Maybe that would help. Maybe that would stop someone,” Patrick mentioned Tuesday. “But it’s really bigger than that, Tucker. We’re a coarse society. We’re a society that’s just at each other’s throats all the time. And we’re better than this as a nation.”