Republicans Responsible for Uvalde Massacre of Children

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Greg Abbott, State of Texas, Republicans and cowardly law enforcement caused the Massacre of Uvalde, TX School Children

  • Greg Abbott & State of Texas Republicans failing to raise gun ownership age to 21 contributed to the Massacre of Uvalde, TX School Children
  • Congressional Republicans who has consistently refused to outlaw military grade assault weapons contributed to the Massacre of Uvalde, TX School Children
  • Cowardly law enforcement who were more afraid of being shot by a AR-15 assault weapon, than protect the lives of children contributed to the Massacre of Uvalde, TX School Children

 

‘Cascading failures’ cited in federal Uvalde shooting report

A review team investigating the shooting “identified several critical failures and other breakdowns prior to, during, and after the Robb Elementary School response.”

 

DOJ calls law enforcement response to Uvalde school shooting a ‘failure’

 

Uvalde Report Shows Police Were Afraid Of Confronting AR-15

Lawrence O’Donnell details the many “systemic failures” that a Texas House committee report finds contributed to the mass shooting in Uvalde, but he says the single “decisive factor in this mass murder” that prevented 376 heavily armed officers from confronting the gunman for 77 minutes was his AR-15 weapon.

 

Lawrence On The Cascade Of Failures By Uvalde Police

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why everyone involved in the Texas coverup of the mass murder in Uvalde, from the Governor to the police department and school board, is at fault.

 

Uvalde teacher who survived shooting speaks out on police response

Arnulfo Reyes, whose students were killed in the Uvalde shooting, says he felt abandoned by police. “After everything, I get more angry …You’re supposed to protect and serve.”

 

Texas Republicans Coverup of Mass Shooting in Uvalde, TX

Texas Republicans cover up what happened inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde is falling apart after Texas officials point the blame at each other.

 

Gov. Abbott Is Trying To ‘Bamboozle’ The Public Says Texas State Senator

Democratic Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez and author and historian Kurt Andersen react to Texas Governor Abbott calling on lawmakers to find solutions to end school shootings, but not through gun control.

 

Texas reporter says ‘some basics’ in response to shooting still need to be answered

New questions are being raised in the response to the Uvalde mass shooting following the release of a new timeline from the Texas Tribune

 

Lawrence O’Donnell shares the impassioned remarks given remembering the victims of the Uvalde mass murder by the town’s native son, Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey. In addition to detailing the horrors of the Uvalde massacre, McConaughey called for swift gun safety legislation from Congress.

 

Matthew McConaughey full speech

 

Texas State Senator Gutierrez Discusses Uvalde Shooting

 

NRA’s ‘Good Guy With A Gun’ Theory Failed In Real Time In Uvalde

In addition to the police response being an unfathomable failure, it is also proof that the ‘good guy with a gun’ theory doesn’t work.

 

Uvalde Police’s ‘shocking collective cowardice’ led to 21 deaths at elementary school

 

Texas Officials’ Uvalde Response Is Wait ‘And Do Nothing’

Lawrence O’Donnell discusses what he calls “the most important editorial ever published by a small town Texas newspaper,” which was published by The Uvalde Leader-News looking at the town’s “darkest hour” when police did not respond as the shooter remained inside Robb Elementary School, plus the response by officials from Uvalde all the way to Greg Abbott’s office which seems to be to wait out the outrage.

 

Uvalde ‘Greatest Failure In Modern American Law Enforcement History’ During Active Shooter Situation

Tom Winter, investigative correspondent for the NBC News Investigative Unit, breaks down the timeline of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas provided by the Texas Department of Public Safety Director, saying that to him, this was the “Greatest failure in modern American law force history, as it pertains to an active shooter — period.”

 

‘Enraging’: Hayes On Dystopian Call To ‘Harden The Schools’ After Shootings

Chris Hayes: “Something I am certain of is that the most wrongheaded, dystopian response to a tragedy like Uvalde is to call for ‘hardening schools.’”

 

Texas rampage is among deadliest school shootings in U.S. history

In 2020, there were more than 19,000 gun-related homicides in the U.S., according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s an average of 53 per day. There have been 213 mass shootings so far this year. The death toll in school mass shootings is also startling — since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, 77 students have been killed.

 

Rep. Castro Slams Gun Reform Blocking Policy Makers In Wake Of Uvalde, Texas School Shooting

The Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting and the problem of gun reform blocking policy makers are discussed by Rep. Joaquin Castro. “When these things happen over and over and over again, we just went through Buffalo… It’s hard not to reach the conclusion,” Rep. Castro tells Joy Reid, “that there are policy makers that are okay with this happening, because they’re not doing anything about it.” Plus, The ReidOut takes you to Vice President Kamala Harris speaking out against this atrocity at a live event.

 

Parkland Father To Cruz And Abbott: ‘You Are As Low Of A Human Being As Can Be’

In the wake of the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting, anti-gun violence activist Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter Jaime was murdered in the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in 2018, joins The ReidOut. “I say screw you Ted Cruz and Gov. Abbott,” Guttenberg tells Joy Reid. “You want this fight? I’m done talking to you. I’m done trying to reason with you. You are who you are. You are as low of a human being as can be. We will fire you. And that’s what we need to do.”

 

 

Coward Uvalde Cops Reveal Why They Didn’t Save School Children’s Lives

An official from the Texas Department of Public Safety publicly stated that police officers were hesitant to storm the school building and save the children from the shooter because they were afraid of getting shot. Uvalde police waited for around an hour outside of the school, preventing parents from rushing the building and waiting for back-up instead of doing the job they signed up for, which was saving lives during these situations.

 

How Does A Texas Police Chief Go AWOL?

Exactly one week after the mass murder at Robb Elementary School, not a single officer who responded to the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has been fired despite the delayed response. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains the crisis in governance happening in Texas from Uvalde all the way up to Gov. Greg Abbott.

 

Lawrence: Republicans Don’t Want You To Know The Truth About TX School Massacre

For years, Republicans have argued that the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell explains why the mass murder of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, has again proven that Republican plan will never work.

 

A Political Party That Doesn’t Care If You Get Shot

Despite clear evidence to the contrary, the GOP continues to push the idea that liberal policy is the culprit for gun violence in America. Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter in the mass shooting in Parkland, FL, joins Katie Phang to discuss.

 

Being Murdered In School Is A Uniquely American Way Of Death

May 24, 2022 MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell covers the tragic news of yet another mass shooting in an American school, this time an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and looks back at the history at this uniquely American way of death.

 

Lawrence: GOP Position Is Kids Have To Die Because The Constitution Says So

Texas Democratic candidate for Governor Beto O’Rourke interrupted a press conference in Uvalde, Texas, being chaired by his political rival, Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott, telling Abbott the Uvalde shooting was “totally predictable.” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell covers that and how the Republican solution to school shootings didn’t work in Uvalde, Texas.

 

Preventable But Predictable: Activist Slams Abbott, GOP After 18 Children Killed In TX Shooting

Eighteen children are dead after the deadliest mass shooting of 2022 occurred at a Texas elementary school. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by activist Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter was killed in the Parkland school shooting, to discuss the shooting and the need for gun reform in America. Guttenberg reacted to Mitch McConnell’s response to the shooting, telling Melber that “he probably put out the exact same statement after my daughter was killed.”

 

 

Texas Governor gets BOOED by fed up Texans after shooting

 

Only In America: Child Legally Purchases Firearm

Despite being denied access to lottery tickets, cigarettes, and beer, a 13-year-old child takes advantage of America’s Gun Show Loophole to legally purchase a firearm.