Students, teachers want tougher gun control after Uvalde school shooting
Annette and her mother Courtney Harris protest across the street from the 2022 NRA Convention in Houston, Texas on May 27, 2022.Student and teacher advocates demanded immediate action from lawmakers to stop the country’s gun violence epidemic that included this week’s deadly school shooting in Uvalde.
The collective message of educators, parents, activists and community leaders — expressed through hope, anger and sadness — was that the death of 19 students and two teachers at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary should be the final straw in shaking the country into action. While much of the discussion at the forum focused on using the Uvalde shooting as a catalyst for change, several Texas-based speakers railed against recommendations from some state leaders, most notably Attorney General Ken Paxton, to arm teachers as the last line of defense.“I should not have to go to my child’s teacher next year and say ‘Hey, how good of a shot are you?’” said Christina Quintero, a parent and member of Houston’s Community Voices for Public Education.
“Newtown is Uvalde,” Clements said. “It’s Chicago, It’s Philly. It’s Houston. Schools are unsafe working conditions, for students and teachers. And teachers are walking in every day, these days, crying, having to field questions from students. We come in, and they lock eyes with us because they don’t know what to say. And we don’t know what to say.”
David Hogg, a Parkland shooting survivor who co-founded gun control advocacy group March Of Our Lives after the 2018 attack, said he genuinely feels that the response to Uvalde’s shooting “can be different.”
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