ITT Sound Off: Uvalde

In The Thick

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio process the tragic mass shooting that occurred in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, when an 18-year-old man opened fire at an elementary school, killing two teachers and 19 children. They get into the systemic issues of gun control, border policing, and how this intersects with immigration.

ITT Staff Picks:

“There are parents today scrolling through photographs of their children, realizing that there will be no more photographs of them to take. We cannot continue to live like this, but I fear we will,” writes Clint Smith in this piece for The Atlantic.
Mike Hixenbaugh spoke with a teacher in Uvalde, Texas. She was at the school on Wednesday and said it was the longest 35 minutes of her life, via NBC.
Bindu Bansinath writes about ways to support the community in Uvalde, in this piece for The Cut.

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0:00.0	Hey family, from Futuro Media and PRX, it's in the thick, I'm Maria Gnojosa.
0:14.6	And I'm Yuri Galorela and I can't believe we're doing another sound off on another
0:19.4	mass shooting, Maria.
0:20.4	Yeah, and that's what we're talking about.
0:22.9	Actually, you know, I wasn't even supposed to be recording the show because I'm supposed
0:26.6	to be off celebrating my daughter's graduation and then, you know, on Tuesday, you just suddenly
0:32.7	start seeing this another mass shooting in Ubalde, Texas.
0:37.4	So you know, we haven't, we're still in shock because of Buffalo.
0:43.1	We're still in shock because of a white supremacist hate-raged attack on innocent people, black
0:50.7	people in Buffalo.
0:53.3	And then, you know, this happens at on Tuesday, right?
0:55.6	An 18-year-old gunman, Salvador Ramos, started shooting inside of Rob Elementary School in
1:00.8	Ubalde, killing 19 children, two teachers.
1:05.1	Before getting to the school, the gunman also shot his grandmother.
1:08.5	She's still alive.
1:10.1	So we do know that he sent private messages on Facebook, basically saying that he was going
1:17.0	to shoot his grandmother and then he was going to go to a school.
1:21.6	So according to the Texas Department of Public Safety, all of the victims were in the same
1:25.5	fourth grade classroom, making the children who were killed around 8 to 10 years old.
1:30.6	And just for context, the most common age for Latinos and Latinas is 11.
1:37.2	Right, right.
1:38.2	We did a conversation with that.
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