Texas school shooting: Two sets of 10-year-old cousins among victims

Two sets of 10-year-old cousins and two teachers are among those killed at a massacre at a Texas primary school that left 21 dead.

Nineteen children are among those killed by Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old gunman who crashed a vehicle before making his way into Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde.

Officials said he was wearing body armour and had shot his grandmother, who is in a critical condition, before entering the school.

This report from Sky's Greg Milam in Texas, contains interviews with grieving families.

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[smc]

There's something very very wrong when these shootings continue to occur and yet nothing is ever done about it.
How many more have to die before something changes???
Insanity

[rabinupadhaya]

😡😡😡 How many times will the governing body use the word "Evil" or "God" instead of failure and mismanagement...!!!

[ssfatima]

😭😭😭😭 no words. Condolence to all families who suffered.

[danielwhyatt]

This's just ONE OF THE REASONS WHY we done NOT call the US a civilised country.

[titteryenot]

Part of this whole gun debate should take into account that in 1791, when the 2nd Amendment was ratified, the average musket or flintlock pistol could fire about 3 rounds per minute. A standard semi-automatic weapon today can shoot around 50-100 rounds per minute. It’s as if the law hasn’t kept pace with the technological advance of armaments. In the same way that cars were produced that became capable of better performance over time, and driving laws to take account of this were introduced to keep pace with this, surely stricter gun control legislation should’ve long before now been introduced in America, as gun performance improved and evolved. Other countries, *most* other countries, can see this, but for America, it seems like a blind spot as that society is bedazzled by the 2nd Amendment.

[thesilver]

Just another day in America. 27 school shooting so far this year and its only May.

[thelegend-qxjn]

nobody on this earth should be able to own an assault rifle let alone a 18'yr old wake up America change your gun laws these horrific tragedies need to stop my heart goes out to families

[ninny]

Dreadful, I wish a good guy with a gun could get there sooner or someone had one at scene

[gweilospur]

Any reasonably civilised country would have banned gun ownership decades ago as soon as these things started to happen.

[JoelJosephson]

America Is A Gun

England is a cup of tea.
France, a wheel of ripened brie.
Greece, a short, squat olive tree.
America is a gun.

Brazil is football on the sand.
Argentina, Maradona's hand.
Germany, an oompah band.
America is a gun.

Holland is a wooden shoe.
Hungary, a goulash stew.
Australia, a kangaroo.
America is a gun.

Japan is a thermal spring.
Scotland is a highland fling.
Oh, better to be anything
than America as a gun.

Brian Bilston

[mdarf]

Leaders need to take action on matters seriously so as to stop weapons that had being authorised irresponsibly.
These must be stopped immediately to safe unwanted death, always…🤗

[MrJamieFRESH]

27 school shootings in the US ALONE this YEAR WTF

[RUTHLESSambition]

Can't buy cigarettes or alcohol until you are 21 but you can buy a AR when you turn 18🤣🤣🤣 America is the wild wild west all over again but it's all over the counter. North to south and from coast to coast.

[jobloggs]

How can an 18-year-old “”boy”” purchase such weapons ? Absolutely insane laws !

[jsharp]

Blame the shooter not the gun. It's a mental health issue...

[ConstructiveMinds]

How about pinning the problem down.
How many movies made in US has been promoting bullying and idiocy as cool.
Mean girls, etc the list is sooo long.

All sort of bulling should be treated with iron hand. Most teachers turn back.
Gold medal for all. Part of the problem too.

[ashleighmackenzie]

*Can anyone tell me what his connection to the primary school was?? Nowhere is saying if that was where he previously went or if it was just a random school he picked or what*

[jennifersantos]

why did they allow this 18 yrs old to buy these killer weapons! They need a stricter policy on this matter to save more lives!!

[emzkiemoimoi]

😭😭😭😭condolence the their families so sad

[gerryd]

What makes someone do this it abhorrent. Condolences from the UK 🇬🇧