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In the Town Square in Uvalde, Texas, 21 crosses stand in rows,
each bearing the name of someone killed by the gunman who
stormed Robb Elementary School on May 24. They’re about two feet
high, with baby blue, heart-shaped plaques glued to the top.
Sharpie pens are attached to each of them on a string, so
members of the community can write messages of condolence and
love.
“I will always love you my beautiful granddaughter” is written
on the memorial for Layla Salazar, a 10-year-old victim of the
shooting. It’s signed “Grandmom.”
If the scene is heartbreaking, to some Latino Texans it also
feels tragically familiar. It’s reminiscent of the homemade
crosses bearing names that people gathered around in El Paso,
Texas, after a gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart on August
10, 2019 in the deadliest attack on Latinos in recent U.S.
history.
After that shooting, people in Uvalde gathered together in
prayer groups for El Paso, says Sue Rankin, a seven-year
resident of Uvalde who participated in a prayer three years ago.
Now, people in nearby communities are praying for Uvalde
instead. “We never thought this would happen here,” Rankin says.
“I see so many people coming together.”
Though so far there have not been any indications that the
shooter’s actions were racially motivated, most of the victims
in the Uvalde shooting were Latinos. Nearly 90% of the students
who attend Robb Elementary School are Latinos, according to
Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District data.
Nationally, more than 4,100 Latinos die each year from gun
violence, are two times more likely to die of gun homicide in
the U.S. than white people, and are four times more likely to be
wounded by a gun than white people, according to Everytown For
Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization that advocates for stricter
gun control measures and researches gun violence. (The impact of
gun violence on Latinos comes second only to the amount of gun
violence inflicted on Black people in America.)
Despite the massacre in El Paso, other mass shootings in the
state in recent years, and the grim statistics, multiple members
of the Uvalde community say their small town always felt like a
safe haven. But Tuesday’s violence is now forcing a reckoning
among some Uvalde residents over the gun laws in Texas, which
are some of the most permissive in the country.
“Canada doesn’t have school shootings, the UK hasn’t had a
shooting since it enacted gun control laws…and there were red
flags going up all over the place for this [shooter],” says
Robert Dennis, who was born and raised in Uvalde and says he has
always supported owning guns. “My ideas about gun ownership are
changing.” Dennis went to the center of town to write “You will
be missed” on each of the 21 memorials Thursday morning.
Uvalde is a quiet community, says resident Sofia Aguilar, with
relatively little gun violence despite the pervasive hunting
culture and popularity of guns in the town. Aguilar says she
supports stricter gun control measures. “I’m very distraught,”
she says. “People are buying guns to hurt other people.” Aguilar
knew one of the victims, 10-year-old Jacklyn Cazares. She wept
when she found Jacklyn’s cross in Town Square.
Uvalde County Commissioner Ronald “Ronnie” Garza, who attended
Robb Elementary as a kid, says he was also shocked that violence
of this nature would take place in Uvalde. “Like any small town,
we’ll have an incident here or there, but this is just tragic,”
Garza says. He is calling on Texas officials to support stricter
gun control measures like background checks and age limits. “The
current system isn’t working,” he says. “Something has to be
done. We can’t accept the status quo.”
https://time.com/6182095/uvalde-shooting-gun-violence/
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