The president of the United States, Joe Bidenwill visit this Sunday the families of the victims of the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, a city in turmoil due to the tactical error, assumed by the police authorities, which was to leave the shooter locked in a classroom while the security forces remained in the corridors. and the children Inside, they asked for help.

It was the worst school shooting in the United States in the last decade. Joe Biden will visit a memorial that has already been put up at the school and then meet with the families of the victims, whom he addressed in his speech on the day of the incident.

An adviser to the US Democratic Party, quoted by Reuters, says that “Biden has to stay focused on the pain and loss of those families and that community, and he has to understand that this whole scenario is compounded by the fact that I still don’t know exactly what happened, what happened”. Karen Finney continues: “The more we find out about what happened, the more it seems that these children were not protected in the best way.”

It was a “bad decision” to leave children in the classroom with Salvador Ramos for 35 minutes, Texas officials admit

On the other hand, Biden is under pressure to do something to stop the episodes of gun violence, in the US, from the beginning in the middle of school. Igor Volsky, director of Guns Down America, told Reuters that “the president now has a great opportunity” to do more about it, recommending, for example, that he appoint a czar take the lead in efforts to pressure the US Congress to pass legislation that would profoundly change existing rules.

Kamala Harris defends the ban on firearms in the US.

US Vice President Kamala Harris called Saturday for assault weapons to be banned in the country after the shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers this week.

Kamala Harris made this appeal in statements to the press, after the funeral of one of the victims of another shooting in the US, which occurred on May 14 in Buffalo (New York state) carried out by a white supremacist in a supermarket in a majority black area. “We know what works to solve this and the solution is to ban assault weapons,” said the US vice president.

One of the stories that has emerged in recent days is that there was a woman who was arrested by US police when she was meeting with other guardians at Robb Elementary School (where an attacker killed 19 children and two teachers last Tuesday), while waiting. to receive news about the whereabouts of her children.

Angeli Rose Gómez, mother of two children -one in the second grade and the other in the third-, described to The Wall Street Journal that she was handcuffed by police when Salvador Ramos, the aggressor, was still inside the school. The arrest came when Angeli tried to scale a fence to rescue her two children.

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