Members of Louisiana’s Congressional delegation react to Tuesday’s tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. On Tuesday, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos walked into the Robb Elementary school and killed 19 children and 2 teachers. Louisiana District 2 Congressman Troy Carter says the massacre is “heartbreaking”, and says mass shooters often have mental problems and there are steps we could take to screen them before they get a gun.
“People, who – with a little bit of research – could have been determined if they had some mental illnesses that should have been checked,” says Carter.
Carter says local and federal authorities need to take whatever steps are necessary to assure maximum safety for children at school.
Carter says, “I am a firm believer that we can still protect the Second Amendment rights of individuals, while making sure that we’re doing fair background checks, and having Red Flag laws that give us an opportunity to find people that might have a propensity for violence.”
During an appearance on WBRP 107.3 in Baton Rouge, District 6 Congressman Garret Graves says the Uvalde shootings were “disgusting”, and also feels it’s time to revisit public policy on school safety and screening gun owners. However, he feels it needs to be a well-thought-out and deliberate process.
“The worst thing in the world we can do it go out there and do some knee-jerk reaction, where we pass a law that may make some people feel good about what we did…but it does not actually solve the problem of preventing these senseless killings from happening” says Graves.
Before the attack at Robb school, Ramos posted online he intended to kill his grandmother, then that he had shot her, then that he was go to “shoot up” a school. Graves says the issues for many mass shooters – particularly the very young ones – often start in the home.
He says “the best thing that you can do id to have kids growing up in an unconditionally loving environment by their parents.”
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