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Texas school shooting: second teacher and first child victims named after 21 killed at Uvalde elementary school – latest updates

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Irma Garcia is the second teacher who died in shooting as four children killed by gunman are also named amid rage over gun violence

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David Hogg, who has become a national figure in the US gun control debate as a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, has posted on social media to say that the reaction to the Robb elementary school will be different, because of the level of youth activism. Hogg says:

We voted out more National Rifle Association (NRA) backed politicians than ever before in American history, and had the highest youth voter turn out in 2018 and 2020 in American history. We have the most pro-gun reform president and Congress in American history and the NRA is the weakest it’s ever been.

Republican state legislatures including Florida across the country have passed gun reform we just need them to do it in Congress – even if it’s small. No single policy will end every shooting but progress and reduction in gun violence is better than nothing.

My prayers and thoughts go out to the families of the students and teachers who lost their lives today, My heart is broken for them all. I ask everyone to lift them up in prayers for God to surround the them with his love and comfort. To our community- I know your hearts are broken. Please, keep these families in your prayers.

Today will no doubt go down as the saddest day in the history of Uvalde. Our hearts are torn and broken. Wednesday evening at 7pm the Ministerial Alliance will hold a community prayer service at the Event Center at the Fairplex. Please come and show our love and support for the victims families, students, school teachers, administrators, law enforcement officers and first responders.