The vigil was held to honor the victims killed in Tuesday’s shooting at Robb Elementary School. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, attends a prayer vigil in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. What research says about armed law enforcement in schools The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom that focuses on gun issues, found that in Santa Fe and in three other prominent shootings in 2018 - Kentucky’s Marshall County High School in January Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February Maryland’s Great Mills High School in March - “attackers stormed campuses despite the presence of armed guards.” In each case, guards failed to stop the shooter from killing.

Multiple explosive devices were also found at or near the school, officials said. A total of 10 people were killed and 13 were wounded. The officers, one of whom was shot during the attack, “hemmed the gunman into one classroom and saved lives by drawing his attention and fire,” the sheriff said.Ībout 30 minutes after the shooting started, the 17-year-old suspect surrendered to law enforcement. In that case, the shooter was confronted by two police officers who were stationed at the school, according to a local sheriff. In 2018, in Texas, Cruz responded to another school shooting, this one at Santa Fe High School, in Santa Fe, Texas. Law enforcement officers ultimately shot and killed Ramos, McCraw said, but not before at least 21 people were killed and 17 additional people were injured. “He walked in unobstructed initially,” said Victor Escalon, regional director for the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Other media accounts offer some different details about the number of officers and the level of confrontation.Īnd then on May 26, Texas law enforcement officials said Ramos was able to enter the school unobstructed and that a school resource officer was not on scene. “The subject was able to make it into the school.” “There was a brave consolidated independent school district resource officer that approached (Ramos), engaged him and, at that time, gunfire was not exchanged,” McCraw said. On May 25, Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety Steven McCraw said that before 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered the school and shot and killed at least 19 children and two teachers, he was confronted by a district school resource officer, a common title for armed police officers who work on school grounds. Officials have offered various and conflicting reports at what happened at Robb Elementary School. Let’s start with what happened in Uvalde, Texas. Whether it’s anecdotal evidence or broad-based research, there is little to support Cruz’s claim. Is it true that we know from “past experiences that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus”? “Inevitably when there’s a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it, you see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens. Ted Cruz proposes armed cops in elementary schools to deter school shootings /sJ8B6cf9Xd “We know from past experiences that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus,” Cruz said in Washington on May 24, just hours after the shooting, before many details were known. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has blamed others for politicizing the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, to advance discussions about gun access.

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