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US students are 'never going to be the same again': Uvalde politician

Wednesday, 07 September 2022 1:25 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 07 September 2022 1:25 AM ]

Mementos are kept at the final resting place of Jailah Silguero, 10, who was killed during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. August 31, 2022.

As students in Uvalde, Texas returned to schools on Tuesday (September 6), more than three months after a gunman killed 21 people at Robb Elementary School on May 24, Texas state senator Roland Gutierrez, who serves Uvalde, said the emotional wounds haven't healed.

"There's still kids that go to trauma therapy every day," said Gutierrez outside Dalton Elementary School on Tuesday."There were kids in Robb that were in adjacent classrooms that were stuck in those classrooms. They're never going to be the same again."

Since Robb Elementary will reportedly be demolished in the future, elementary students in Uvalde went to three separate schools in the district. Pre-K through 2nd grade students are attending Dalton, located about two-and-a-half miles from Robb.

While 8-foot security fencing was recently built at Dalton and other Uvalde schools, Gutierrez said that isn't the case for all the district's schools. The state senator also wants further investigations into law enforcement present at Robb on May 24.

"We had enough ammunition, enough training, enough people there on scene for the Texas Rangers and Department of Public Safety to go in and do this job appropriately," Gutierrez said."And that never happened. And so where we are today is we've got a frustrated community that's asking for accountability, certainly asking for added safety measures."

Joining Gutierrez on Tuesday was Nancy Thompson, the founder of Mothers Against Greg Abbott, a political group taking aim at Texas' incumbent governor who's running for reelection this November. Thompson said gun safety policies in the state should extend beyond raising the legal age to purchase an AR-type rifle.

"We just want to see some common sense gun laws like minimizing the capacity of the magazines that are sold," Thompson said. "So they don't have capacities that are as large as they currently are.

(Source: Reuters)

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