NEW YORK – The Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, ordered that the Police increase patrols and carry out daily checks in state schools until the end of the year, after the Tuesday shooting in Texas that killed 19 children and two adults.
“I want State Police patrols to visit our schools every day for daily checks from now until the end of the school year,” the governor said during a conference.
Hochul recalled that the tragedy in Uvalde, Texasoccurs a few days after the shooting in a New York supermarket, on May 14, where 10 people died.
“We are still mourning the ten lives that were taken in buffalo. Now our entire country is mourning the tragic loss of babies in another school shooting,” he said, saying such shootings “don’t happen in other countries.”
In those other countries “rarely does it happen what happens in a nation (the US) that seems to revere the rights of gun owners and the ability to own weapons over the right of children to stay alive or to go to school without fear of having to hide or run away,” he said.
The president was visibly upset by the new school massacre that claimed the lives of 19 children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
The Democrat, visibly affected by the deaths of the children, reiterated that “it is time for a national response to this crisis” caused by gun violence.
He recalled that New York has the most restrictive laws in the country regarding firearms “but Washington (Congress) needs to do something” to approve measures that tighten access to weapons.
He assured that he will work with the state legislature to toughen local laws and prevent an 18-year-old from buying a semi-automatic weapon like the AR-15 rifle used in the Buffalo massacre.
Hochul also wants “a big change” that requires all New York law enforcement agencies to report the recovery of any weapon to state agencies so that within 24 hours the data enters the National Crime Information Center and thus can be known. if it was used in a crime, among other measures.
For his part, the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, called on parents to get involved in protecting children in schools during a conference with the Police and the head of Education, David Banks.
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He asked parents or guardians to talk to their children about guns and check their school bags and rooms to make sure they don’t have a gun.
The mayor showed some weapons confiscated this year from students in city schools.
“We are going to mobilize parents, join us in this association (Department of Education, Police and mental health experts) to save our children,” he said.
He stated that it is not about “blaming the parents” for the weapons found on students: “These weapons are being put in the hands of their babies by people who are dangerous to our city.”
“We cannot allow the cycle of violence and death to continue,” he added.
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