Crime Gunman at a Texas elementary school kills 19 students and two adults before being fatally shot, officials say - yeehaw

(CNN)A suspect is in custody after a shooting incident at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, left at least two dead and injured 14 people, including students, authorities said.

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) posted about an "active shooter" at Robb Elementary at 12:17 p.m. local time and said law enforcement was on site.

The suspect was taken into custody as of 1:06 p.m. local time, according to the Uvalde Police Department.
Two have died after the shooting at Robb Elementary School, a spokesperson from Uvalde Memorial Hospital told CNN.

The hospital received 13 children at their facility who were being treated for varying injuries, he said. Two children were transported to San Antonio and another is pending transfer, Tom Nordwick said.

Additionally, two patients were dead on arrival, he said. Nordwick was not sure of the ages of the two deceased. A man in his 40s was also being treated there, he said.

Nordwick did not have conditions on any of the victims.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

 
Now adjust for population

Countries with the Highest Rates of Violent Gun Death (Homicides) per 100k residents in 2019​

  1. El Salvador (36.78)
  2. Venezuela (33.27)
  3. Guatemala (29.06)
  4. Colombia (26.36)
  5. Brazil (21.93)
  6. Bahamas (21.52)
  7. Honduras (20.15)
  8. U.S. Virgin Islands (19.40)
  9. Puerto Rico (18.14)
  10. Mexico (16.41)

Gangs are much less of an issue in the United States, yet it is second only to Brazil on the list in total gun deaths. Many people understandably assume the high number of gun deaths in the U.S. is due to mass shootings, which receive frequent attention from the media. In truth, mass shootings account for only a small percentage of gun deaths in the United States. Rather, nearly two-thirds (63%) of gun deaths in the US in 2019 were suicides.
 
I loved the little sleight of hand you did there. You knew that somebody would bring up the fact that countries with gun control have less shootings, so you try to pre-emptively deflect from this by shifting the focus onto violent crime in general and hoping no one notices. If you're going to argue in bad faith then could you at least be less obvious about it?

If your goal is to specifically reduce shootings, then yes, gun control does work.
Ah gotcha, so its not about violence, its about guns. In your perfect world, a country with one million homicides a year but no guns is preferrable to another with a thousand where everyone has a gun and 90% of shootings are self-defense.
 
Woah it's almost like when you turn mass shooters into celebrities, more people commit mass shootings. Reminder that the blood for this is on the hands of every msm corporation that glorifies shooters, such as: CNN, Fox, MSNBC, ABC, etc
pot calling kettle black
IIRC mass shooters that go after small kids do it out of spite for their own sense of hopelessness for the future, so expect it to be more common.
i would say smaller targets increase the difficulty
14 kids and 1 adult are dead and people are sperging about the perpetrator's race, like it fucking matters

just another sad day....
kids and innocents dead. republicans most affected
 
I remember when Sandy Hook happened, there was some talk that one easy way to prevent something like that from happening was so that people had to be buzzed into the school like an apartment building, ie nutters couldn't just waltz in and mow down children. You would have to have a reason to be let in the school building. I thought that was a perfectly reasonable suggestion but I don't know if it ever happened anywhere, seems like it may have stopped or at least impeded this shooter.
I don’t think it’s everywhere in America but a lot of the more fortunate school districts lock the doors after the last bell and visitors have to be buzzed in through a main entrance.

This is fucking awful, I kept reading this hoping the body count was mostly injuries and it’s going up instead.
Fucking cowardly freak shooting up little kids and taking the cowards way out after he does it.
These poor parents.
 
Ah gotcha, so its not about violence, its about guns. In your perfect world, a country with one million homicides a year but no guns is preferrable to another with a thousand where everyone has a gun and 90% of shootings are self-defense.
That's not even a strawman, that's a whole ass Gävle goat
 
>bu...buuu...da Bri'ish do the stabbin and sheeeeiii. Me make musket from home depot!!!1!!!! Shoooot children with musket!!!!!!!
What a retarded take. Only psychos don't want there to be less gun violence. Guy never said take away all guns he just wants there to be less mass shootings. You have a problem with him wanting less shootings? And how many mass stabbings resulted in the deaths of 14 children in the past decade? How many kids did the last MASS STABBER in the UK get?
Read John Lott Jr. Guns correlate negatively with crime. 99.99% of crime is reduced the more guns an area has. The only one that doesnt for sure is car burglary.
 
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