where they met with the families of the 19 children and two teachers in the school shooting which came ten days after buffalo. as biden left a church service in uvalde, he was met by a crowd of people chanting do something. he responding by telling the crowd, we will. the president sounded a similar note in the commencement speech at the university of delaware, telling graduates that the country can and must do something. let s be clear. evil came to that elementary school in texas, to that grocery store in new york, far too many places where innocents have died. the face of such forces, we have to stand stronger. we must stand stronger, we cannot outlaw, tragedy, i know, but we can make america safer. but let s be honest, optimism is in short supply on whether congress will do anything at all, even as protests raged throughout the weekend outside the nra conference that took place in houston, inside the event donald trump himself and other republican political leaders
challenges that are now surfacing that this killer had in his life. that lead to someone doing what he did. and then there will be all other kinds of issues, but there will be committees formed. there will be meetings held. there will be proposals that will be derived, many of which will lead to laws which will be passed in the state of texas, because let me make one thing perfectly clear. the status quo is unacceptable. this crime is unacceptable. we re not going to be here talking about it and do nothing about it. we will be looking for the best laws that we can get passed to make our communities and schools safer. go ahead. [ inaudible question ] . let s be clear about a couple things. that show that these background checks, if everyone wants to seize upon a particular strategy, and just assume, well, that s the golden strategy right there, look at what happened in the santa fe shooting. a background check had no relevancy whatsoever, because the killer took the gun from
now, it was the wrong decision. there s no excuse for that. i wasn t there. i m telling you from what we know, we believe there should have been an entry as soon as you can. prior to that, he laid out a new timeline of events. if you haven t seen this, you need to watch. 11:27, the store is propped up by a teacher, a minute later, the gunman crashes his car. that teacher runs to get a phone and comes back to the open door. it remains propped open. at 11:30, the teacher calls 911 reporting a crash and a man with a gun. the door remains open. at 11:31, the gunman reaches the school parking lot and begins shooting at the school. two minutes later, he enters the school through the propped open door around began shooting into a classroom. he fires 100 rounds. at 11:35, three uvalde officers intrerld the school. they re followed by four others. more gun fire is heard two minutes later and it continues the next several minutes. by 12:03, as many as 19 officers are now in the hallw
texas rangers viewing this video until i was discovered and asked to leave. a week after, you saw this? after i saw this. i saw a body cam camera and you see sheet rock flying through at the officers as they are huddling to try to take cover. that is a very extreme power of this type of weaponry. make no mistake, as strong and as powerful as that weaponry is, these officers failed in their mission. they failed in their training on what they re supposed to do in an active shooter situation. we were watching and thinking about all the different uniforms we saw, all the different agencies represented. you mentioned more than 300 officers collectively on the scene. we saw just a select few of them. i want to play for you what colonel mcgraw had to say. he is a colonel with the texas department of public safety and they report directly to the
are huddling to try to take cover. that is the very extreme power of this type of weaponry. and make no mistake, as strong and as powerful as that weaponry is, these officers failed in their mission. they failed in their training on what they re supposed to do in an active shooter situation. you know, we were watching and thinking about all the different uniforms we saw, all the different agencies represented. and you mentioned more than 300 officers collectively on the scene. we saw just a select view of them. i want to play for you what colonel mcgraw had to say. he is a colonel with the texas department of public safety, and they report directly to the governor. he is speaking to the legislature and describing what he called, well, the response an abject failure. here he is. there is compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at robb elementary was an abject failure