Extremism is not limited to a country or region’ says Pakistan PM after Santa Fe school shooting
Mourners knelt before white wooden crosses on Monday outside the Texas high school where 10 people were killed in the fourth deadly US school shooting this year, an image recalling similar gatherings following February's Florida school massacre.
"It is their faith in God that led them through the pathway of the stormy seas, that led them to the road to recovery and had it not been for God, they would still be stuck in a quagmire", he continued.
Sadie Rodriguez said her daughter Shana Fisher had endured "four months of problems from this boy". Teachers Glenda Ann Perkins and Cynthia Tisdale were also killed.
Students organizers read off names of victims in the Santa Fe shooting, then held a moment of silence before the group entered school. Her family wasn't present for Sunday's worship.
"We want to come together as a community and support one another", senior pastor Jerl Watkins said, according to Dallas News.
He said he had not planned anything special to say to the some 150 people who normally attend. Drake said all the church leaders were wearing the shirts Sunday.
That, plus the power of the National Rifle Association and the pervasive belief within gun rights circles that any gun restriction is a slippery slope to confiscation, virtually ensures that nothing major will change at the federal level in the wake of future school shootings.
Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News.
North identifies the "disease" as youngsters growing up in a culture where violence is commonplace. Investigators haven't linked the suspect to Ritalin or other drugs.
A girl becomes emotional as she kneels in front of a cross at a makeshift memorial outside Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, on Monday, May 21, 2018. She said teachers should be armed.
Gun control activists had complained about the picture of Abbot with the shotgun following the shooting and pressed the governor over the weekend to delete if from the webpage.
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On April 4, the Madras High Court had directed the police to provide security for the plant in the wake of the agitation. State Opposition leaders slammed the ruling government over its failure to control the mob and several deaths.
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Relatives said they remained "mostly in the dark about the specifics" of the attack and shared "the public's hunger for answers". But even better than that is four to five guns to one". "Some people are saying you can't prevent guns with guns", Ybarra said.
The last day of school in the Arlington ISD is June 1. She said she and her classmates are "shaken up" but coping.
The Islamic Society for Greater Houston says services for 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student Sabika Sheikh are scheduled for a mosque in suburban Houston.
In April 2007, a senior at the university committed the deadliest school shooting in modern US history, killing 32 people and injuring 17 others in two separate attacks on campus - one in a co-ed dormitory and the other in the Engineering, Science and Mechanics building. The gunman killed his mother before heading to the school.
Her father, Aziz Sheikh, said on Monday he hoped the death of his daughter, who wanted to serve her country as a civil servant or diplomat, would spur gun control in the United States.
Her body is to be returned to her family in Karachi, Pakistan.
At least two of those wounded in Friday's mass shooting at Santa Fe High School were still hospitalized, including school police officer John Barnes, who remained in critical condition, said the University of Texas Medical Branch.
Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says violent video games and eroding moral values might be to blame for the surge of violence in schools.
He tells CNN's "State of the Union": "When you're facing someone who's an active shooter, the best way to take that shooter down is with a gun".
In Santa Fe, some students were more interested in that idea, with 18-year-old Kassidy Monroe saying, "In some cases arming teachers may help".
"That's all I know is the reports that the parents are being given was that he was holding a door shut, in the art area, the art hallway rooms, he was trying to protect some other kids that were in there, some of them lost their life also", Smith said.
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