#WTF yankistan?!

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Texas governor Greg Abbott shares more details about the shooting, including that the shooter posted three times before the attack

Gunman posted to Facebook three times before attack

Beto O’Rourke confronts Abbott: ‘You are doing nothing’

‘Just a loving little boy’: the victims of the Texas school shooting

World reacts with horror and incomprehension to Texas shooting

Why can’t America do anything to stop mass shootings?

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Students across the country walked out of their classrooms to demand action from lawmakers to protect them from the rising wave of gun violence. The group Students Demand Action organized the walkouts after the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

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"Is this the moment to reform gun laws?" British reporter Mark Stone from Sky News asked the U.S. senator

...  Over the span of his career, Cruz's campaigns have received the most donations of any senators from gun lobbyists, at $442,000, according to OpenSecrets, a nonprofit dedicated to tracking money surrounding America's elections.

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100% FACT.

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The US supreme court voted in favour of … people getting shot | Hamilton Nolan | The Guardian

Yeah.  Massive fuckery.  Wait’ll ya see the next story I post.

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Let’s get rid of facebook and assault rifles.  These evil assholes constantly use it to flaunt their artillery and bigotry, and NOTHING is done about it.  It could be used as a tool to locate these nanowits, but it’s not.  I can’t recall ever seeing a single story re: “facebook posts lead cops to heavily armed bigot before he commits mass murder.”

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The Tarrant County Sheriff's Office called it "insensitive" and "a profound momentary" lack of judgment

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Thank you, Brother.  All blessings.

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Omaha Benson students organize walkout to protest gun violence

OMAHA, Nebraska — Students at Omaha Benson High School organized a walkout Thursday afternoon.

The walkout was in protest of this week's mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. It wasn't how these students planned to spend their last few days of school this year, but they don't feel as though they have a choice.

"School shouldn't be a hunting ground, it's the place where we're supposed to learn and become successful. When we fear for our lives we can't do that," sophomore Bunny Galindo told KETV NewsWatch 7.  ...

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Found this in the comments on 21 dead in mass-shooting at Texas elementary school | Boing Boing

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Tennessee school board bans Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust novel, Maus | Holocaust | The Guardian

...  “I’ve met so many young people who … have learned things from my book,” Spiegelman said. “I also understand that Tennessee is obviously demented. There’s something going on very, very haywire there.”  ...

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Because doing anything logical to protect schools is beyond them: they much prefer the $$$ they get from the gun lobby to any child.

The state of Texas is sending public school students home with DNA kits designed to help their parents identify their children “in case of an emergency.”

In 2021, the Texas state legislature passed Senate Bill No. 2158, a law requiring the Texas Education Agency to “provide identification kits to school districts and open-enrollment charter schools for distribution to the parent or legal custodian of certain students.”

The law passed after eight students and two teachers were shot and killed inside Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, and almost a year before 19 fourth-graders and two teachers were gunned down inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

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Over a year after George Floyd's death, lawmakers abandon the police reform bill named after him - BoingBoing

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Javier Cazares, the father of fourth grader Jacklyn Cazares, who died in the attack, said he and other bystanders considered charging into the school themselves to get their kids

...  Upset that authorities did not appear to be moving into the building, Cazares said he and other bystanders wanted to charge into the school themselves.

“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to do,” he said to The Associated Press and later confirmed with NBC News.“More could have been done,” Cazares added. “They were unprepared.”

Video footage from outside the school Tuesday appears to show distressed parents and locals reacting to news of the shooting.

One woman is heard yelling: “Get in! Get in! What is the f——— deal?”

“They’re all in there, the cops aren’t doing s--- except standing outside,” a man is heard saying. “You know they’re little kids, right? Little kids, they don’t know how to defend themselves.”  ...