Shooting in Texas, the anger of the parents: the agents did not enter immediately

The United States is still in shock from the massacre at the elementary school in

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Nineteen children and two adults, including a teacher, were killed in cold blood

 in class by an 18-year-old boy, 

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While investigators are trying to understand why it took 40 to 60 minutes before the police intervention, witnesses tell the Associated Press that the officers were urged by a "frustrated crowd" to enter the elementary school where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos was carrying out a massacre.

Javier Cazares, whose 8-year-old daughter Jacklyn was killed in the attack, said he rushed to school when he learned of the shooting and police were still outside the building when he arrived.

Shocked, he proposed to enter himself.

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ANSA agency

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The eighteen-year-old perpetrator of the Texas elementary school massacre "shot anyone and anything in front of him. As soon as he entered the building he started shooting children, teachers and anyone in his way", witnesses report (ANSA)

A massacre that extends the blood streak in the United States where there have been more than 200 mass shootings since the beginning of the year.

The children and the two teachers killed in the shooting were all in the same class, a fourth (usually attended by 

): CNN reports.

The killer was an 18-year-old with no criminal record, with no known mental problems.

He used an AR-15 rifle and "the only sign" that a massacre was on the horizon was on Facebook, where he wrote "30 minutes before I reached school: I'm about to shoot my grandmother. Later he wrote: I shot to my grandmother. Then 15 minutes before the massacre she added: I'm about to shoot in an elementary school ".

This was stated by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, noting that the killer shot his grandmother in the face and then fled.

He then went to elementary school, where he entered through the back door. 

US President Joe Biden announced that in the next few days he and the first lady will fly to Texas to meet the families of the victims of the Uvalde school shooting.

Speaking of yet another "massacre", the president defines himself as "tired and angry" and addresses the Americans directly: "Why do we want to live with this carnage? Why do we continue to allow this to happen? For heaven's sake where is ours? spine?".

Hence the appeal to common sense rules on weapons so that tragedies like this can be avoided.

"Don't tell me we can't have an impact on these carnage," he adds.

echoes him 

: "When it's too much is too much, now we need to act."

Heavy words also come from 

, president during the Sandy Hook massacre of 2012. "Michelle and I are alongside the families of Uvalde. But we are also angry": ten years have passed since Newtown and "our country is paralyzed not by fear, but by a lobby of arms and a political party that has shown no willingness to act to prevent these tragedies. The time to act, for any kind of action, has run out, "Obama says bluntly.

The powerful NRA pro-gun lobby has cleared itself of any responsibility in the appalling Texas massacre, denouncing "the act of an isolated and disturbed criminal".

US President Joe Biden, "disgusted and tired" by these repeated shootings, said Tuesday night: "When, for God's sake, are we going to face the gun lobby?" 

ANSA agency

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WHO IS THE KILLER 

- Little is known about Ramos: he was a student of a high school in the area and shortly before the massacre he contacted a stranger on Instagram telling her that he had a secret that he wanted to share: "I'm about ...".

To the girl, however, she did not confess what the crazy gesture she had in mind was and that she completed a few hours later.

On his Instagram account, the killer posted a selfie and photos of weapons, including one with two rifles next to each other.

It is not clear whether these are the weapons used for the massacre.

What is known is that the boy bought two rifles for his 18th birthday.

ANSA agency

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The massacre took place two days before the end of the school year in an area with a prevalence of Hispanics, and preceded by a few days the annual convention of the National Rifle Association, the powerful arms lobby.

The appointment is in fact for Friday in Houston, Texas, which is now mourning the killed children, and there will be speeches by Donald Trump and state governor Greg Abbott.

Right now Abbott is being criticized for having recently softened gun laws.

A tweet of his from 2015 has also reappeared in which he invited Texans to run and buy weapons.

"It's embarrassing. Texas is only second behind California in new gun purchases. Hurry up," he tweeted.

The massacre has already rekindled the debate on weapons in the midst of the primary election campaign ahead of the mid-term elections.

However, it is not taken for granted that the momentum will translate into action, given that the massacres that have taken place over the years have not managed to overcome the impasse in Congress.