Maine
Maine lawmakers react to fatal Texas elementary school shooting
Nineteen youngsters and two adults have been killed on Tuesday after an 18-year-old gunman opened fireplace at a Texas elementary college, officers stated.
The taking pictures at Robb Elementary Faculty in Uvalde, Texas, was the deadliest taking pictures at a U.S. grade college since a gunman killed 20 youngsters and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.
It additionally got here simply 10 days after a gunman in physique armor killed 10 Black buyers and staff at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, in what authorities say was a racist assault.
Maine lawmakers launched statements as extra particulars of the taking pictures got here to gentle.
“The folks of Maine share within the super grief felt by the folks of Texas on this tragic day,” Gov. Janet Mills stated on Twitter. “Like folks throughout Maine, my coronary heart is damaged by the horrific information out of Texas. My prayers are with the households and family members of the harmless younger youngsters and the trainer senselessly taken from us and people injured.”
“No college, mum or dad, or group ought to expertise this sort of horrific grief or stay in concern of a gun bloodbath. I’m heartbroken for these misplaced and sickened that no place is secure from gun violence in America,” Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat, tweeted.
“The horrific, mindless taking pictures at Robb Elementary Faculty shatters hearts throughout the nation, as all of us grieve for the victims and their households,” Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, stated on Twitter.
“This violence doesn’t must proceed. We will, and should, do extra to guard our communities.”
“The brutal assault on college youngsters and lecturers in Uvalde, Texas, is a horrific crime,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, stated in a press release launched Tuesday evening.
“Though we’re nonetheless ready for extra particulars, it’s onerous to imagine that somebody who would do that was not severely mentally in poor health. Congress ought to take a look at enacting a yellow flag legislation based mostly on the one we’ve in Maine, which has due course of rights and in addition includes a medical skilled within the resolution.”
Democratic Rep. Jared Golden had not but launched a press release Tuesday evening.