‘Incomprehensible... But here were are. Again.’ Atlanta police react to Texas shooting
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Georgia leaders are reacting to a shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead at a Texas elementary school with sadness, shock and outright disgust.
The shooting happened at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde Tuesday morning. Authorities said the 18-year-old suspect shot his grandmother before driving the school, walking inside wearing body armor and barricading himself inside a fourth-grade classroom where he opened fire. The suspect was shot and killed by police.
On Wednesday, school districts across metro Atlanta were beefing up patrols and police presence at schools.
The Atlanta Police Department issued a heartbreaking statement Tuesday, saying, in part,
“It is incomprehensible that we have to write a condolence post about 19 elementary school children and two adults being shot and killed by another lunatic with a gun at a school. But here we are...again.”
It is incomprehensible that we have to write a condolence post about 19 elementary school children and two adults being...
Posted by City of Atlanta Police Department on Wednesday, May 25, 2022
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tweeted about the shooting, calling it “incomprehensible.”
— Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) May 24, 2022
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Here are other Georgia leaders’ reactions:
Rep. Lucy McBath:.
“Again in America, more families will now be forced to live forever with the pain of losing their precious children to unspeakable, senseless gun violence in a place where they should have been safe, happy, and free. At a time when this nation is still reeling from the pain of recent shootings, we are faced with another sickening, preventable tragedy in Texas. We are better than this. We have to be better than this. We cannot be the only nation where we pay for the weapons of war in our streets with the blood of our children sitting in our schools. We have to do something to fix this. We can do something to help fix this. We must do something to keep guns out of the hands of those who should not have them. It’s imperative we act, and act now. I will never rest until we do.”
Stacey Abrams:
“To the families of Uvalde, we weep with you in your grief and ask for God’s solace for your unfathomable pain. May your angels be lifted up to spite the darkness that took them. And may the light of reason and compassion save the lives of others in their namesake.”
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