Yahoo Movies Amanda Gorman, Blake Lively And More Share Powerful Reactions Following Texas School Shooting
In the last 24 hours 19 children and two adults lost their lives in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas.
The BBC reports that an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School, Uvalde on Tuesday morning before he was shot dead by law enforcement, officials said. The teenager is suspected of shooting his grandmother before carrying out the mass shooting.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott said the shooter, who he named as Salvador Ramos, entered the school, which teaches pupils aged seven to 10, and killed 'horrifically' and 'incomprehensibly'.
In the aftermath of the shootings several prominent figures including Amanda Gorman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Priyanka Chopra, Meena Harris and more have spoken out to share moving and powerful reactions.
Schools scared to death.
The truth is, one education under desks,
Stooped low from bullets;
That plunge when we ask
Where our children
Shall live
& how
& if— Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman) May 24, 2022
14 children. Buffalo was a week ago. Unimaginably sickening.
— Meena Harris (@meena) May 24, 2022
There is no such thing as being “pro-life” while supporting laws that let children be shot in their schools, elders in grocery stores, worshippers in their houses of faith, survivors by abusers, or anyone in a crowded place.
It is an idolatry of violence. And it must end.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 24, 2022
Lord, enough.
Little children and their teacher.
Stunned. Angry. Heartbroken.— Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) May 24, 2022
Today in my home state of Texas 18 innocent students were killed while simply trying to get an education. A teacher killed doing her job; an invaluable yet sadly under appreciated job. If children aren’t safe at school where are they safe?
— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) May 25, 2022
It's heartbreaking and sickening how routine mass shootings have become in America. Fourteen babies and a teacher. My heart goes out to all the families in Uvalde, Texas, whose lives were shattered. The Senate must pass gun safety legislation and protect our children.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) May 24, 2022
I am in awe of organizers who are taking care of their communities and creating frameworks, resources, and solutions to supporting each other in times of mundanity and tragedy. Show them gratitude and support. Seek them out. We have to take care of each other.
— Zara Rahim (@ZaraRahim) May 24, 2022
What do you say when 14 children and a teacher have been murdered at school? Language is inadequate to the task of explaining the callousness of a country that does absolutely nothing to address rampant gun violence. There is no culture of life here. It is a culture of control.
— roxane gay (@rgay) May 24, 2022
May God bless the memory of the victims, and in the words of Scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 25, 2022
It happens, and then life goes on. Then it happens again. And the only thing that changes - the literal only thing - is that it happens sooner and sooner
— Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling) May 25, 2022
Today in my home state of Texas 18 innocent students were killed while simply trying to get an education. A teacher killed doing her job; an invaluable yet sadly under appreciated job. If children aren’t safe at school where are they safe?
— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) May 25, 2022
Thoughts and prayers are not enough.
After years of nothing else, we are becoming a nation of anguished screams.
We simply need legislators willing to stop the scourge of gun violence in America that is murdering our children.— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 24, 2022
My thoughts and prayers goes out to the families of love ones loss & injured at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX! Like when is enough enough man!!! These are kids and we keep putting them in harms way at school. Like seriously "AT SCHOOL" where it's suppose to be the safest!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) May 24, 2022
Prayers for the people in Texas man those are kids that were killed smh this world needs God smh
— OFFSET (@OffsetYRN) May 24, 2022
18. Children. What will it take to prioritize humanity over politics?
— dan levy (@danjlevy) May 25, 2022
It's BEEN enough. We've been at "enough" for centuries.
— Gabrielle Union (@itsgabrielleu) May 24, 2022
The Texas incident is the 27th school shooting in the US this year alone and comes a week after 10 people were killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
‘Why do we keep letting this happen?’ asked US President Joe Biden in his address to the nation following the Texas shooting. ‘Why are we willing to live with this carnage?
Vice President Kamala Harris has called for policy changes in order to prevent such horrific tragedies.
‘I would normally say in a moment like this — we would all say, naturally, that our hearts break. But our hearts keep getting broken,’ Harris said. ‘You know, I think — there are so many elected leaders in this room, you know what I'm talking about: Every time a tragedy like this happens, our hearts break — and our broken hearts are nothing compared to the broken hearts of those families. And yet it keeps happening.’
The crowdfunding website GoFundMe has set up a central donation page to provide family aid to those affected by the shooting. You can donate here.
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