Kim Kardashian makes plea for gun control after Texas school shooting

Kim Kardashian is talking out after the tragic Texas school shooting that left 19 kids and two academics lifeless. 

The 41-year-old actuality star posted a prolonged message on her social media platforms Wednesday, urging political leaders in America to place ‘politics apart and put kids first.’ 

Kim started by highlighting a weblog publish she had written on gun control 5 years in the past, the place she had requested ‘is it extra necessary to guard the second modification than to guard our personal kids?’ 

Asking herself the identical question following the mindless tragedy that occurred on Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde in Texas, the Kardashians star wrote: ‘I discover myself heartbroken, disgusted and livid about how little has been carried out by legislation makers to enact gun legal guidelines that defend our youngsters.’ 

Kim is one in all many celebrities to react in anger after Salvador Ramos used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle within the massacre at Robb Elementary School this week. 

‘There isn’t any excuse and no justification for what occurred yesterday,’ Kim continued. ‘the present legal guidelines in our nation round gun control should not defending our youngsters.’

She added: ‘We should push legislation makers to enact legal guidelines which can be becoming in at the moment’s world.’ 

The gunman in yesterday’s shooting legally bought two AR-15 rifles from a retailer three miles from his residence final week after turning 18.

He additionally purchased greater than 300 rounds of ammunition to make use of within the assault.

It is a haul that he picked up, someway, for round $5,000 regardless of being made enjoyable of for being poor in school.

Kim continued in her publish: ‘There are after all individuals over 21 who purchase weapons to trigger hurt, and different mass shootings lately have been carried out by individuals over 21, but when we enhance authorized age to buy, coupled with a ban on assault weapons, we will indisputably scale back the variety of mindless tragedies and save kids’s lives.’

She added: ‘We cannot settle for this as regular anymore. It’s not regular for a young person to kill kids. It’s not regular for our children to be working towards lively shooter drills in colleges.’

‘It’s not regular to be shot whereas purchasing for groceries. I’m not numbed by it. I’ll by no means be numbed by it.’

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday stated that there have been no identified indicators that he had psychological issues, and that he didn’t have a legal document. It stays unclear if he could have had a juvenile document.

Before opening hearth at Robb Elementary, the gunman shot his grandmother at their residence.

He wounded her within the face however she survived and fled to a neighbor’s home the place she referred to as police.

At the identical time, the shooter stole his grandmother’s automobile and drove it in the direction of the elementary school.

He has no driving expertise and crashed right into a ditch close to the school.

Police began shooting him as he received to the school. He managed to make it inside and kill the 19 youngsters and two academics who have been in a single classroom earlier than he was shot lifeless himself by a border patrol agent.

Before he shot his grandmother, he posted on Facebook that he deliberate to kill her.

Yesterday, celebrities together with Kim’s siblings Khloe Kardashian and Kylie Jenner reacted in horror to the information.  

Like Kim, Khloe urged individuals in energy to ‘do one thing’ to assist defend younger lives.

‘I cannot comprehend at the moment’s tragedy in our nation. 14 kids lifeless. How is that this taking place. My coronary heart is breaking. I pray, I hope, I encourage, I plead.. please legislation makers, authorities officers, leads of our nation, do one thing to guard our youngsters,’ she wrote.

Meanwhile Kylie stated she was left ‘devastated’ by the tragedy, writing on Instagram: ‘Another school shooting. Devastating. Breaks my coronary heart for these households.’ 

Taylor Swift shared a clip of a vivid assertion made by Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr, questioning political efforts towards gun control within the wake of the newest bloodbath.

‘When are we going to do one thing?’ Kerr stated. I’m drained. I’m so bored with getting up right here and providing condolences to the devastated households on the market. I’m bored with the moments of silence. Enough. 

‘So I ask you, Mitch McConnell and all of you senators who refuse to do something concerning the violence and the school shootings and the supermarkets shootings – I ask you, are you going to place your individual need for energy forward of the lives of our youngsters and our aged and our church-goers?

‘Because that is what it appears like. That’s what we do each week. I’m fed up. I’ve had sufficient. We cannot get numb to this. We cannot sit right here and simply examine it and say let’s have a second of silence.’

In response to Kerr, the Grammy-winning songstress wrote on Twitter, ‘Filled with rage and grief, and so damaged by the murders in Uvalde. By Buffalo, Laguna Woods and so many others. By the methods wherein we, as a nation, have grow to be conditioned to unfathomable and insufferable heartbreak. Steve’s phrases ring so true and reduce so deep.’

Uvalde-born actor Matthew McConaughey stated that Americans ‘can not exhale as soon as once more, make excuses, and settle for these tragic realities as the established order’ following the mass shooting in his hometown.

‘Once once more, we now have tragically confirmed that we’re failing to be accountable for the rights our freedoms grant us,’ the Oscar-winning actor stated in a press release on Instagram. ‘The true name to motion is now for each American to take an extended and deeper look within the mirror, and ask ourselves, “What is it that we truly value? How do we repeat the problem? 

‘What small sacrifices can we individually take today, to pressure a healthier and safer nation, state, and neighborhood tomorrow?”‘

He added that ‘motion should be taken in order that no dad or mum has to expertise what the dad and mom in Uvalde and the others earlier than them have endured. And to those that dropped their family members at the moment not realizing it was goodbye, no phrases can comprehend or heal your loss, but when prayers can present consolation, we are going to preserve them coming.’

Selena Gomez, one other native Texan, requested, ‘If kids aren’t protected at school the place are they protected? Today in my residence state of Texas 18 harmless college students have been killed whereas merely making an attempt to get an training. A trainer killed doing her job; a useful but sadly beneath appreciated job.’

Gomez stated that folks in energy have to make adjustments to keep away from future cases, directing followers to the anti-gun violence group Everytown.

Britney Spears stated in an Instagram publish, ‘My coronary heart is shattered. I’m lost for phrases. My prayers are with the victims of Robb Elementary and their households. Our sympathies and condolences are simply not sufficient.’

Spears added, ‘We should take motion. We want change. Enough is sufficient. We will preserve our prayers coming even when it’s not sufficient to heal the loss.’

Offset stated in a tweet, ‘Prayers for the individuals in Texas man these are youngsters that have been killed smh this world wants God smh.’

Bethenny Frankel, no stranger to activism towards causes she holds expensive, tweeted the phrase, ‘Thoughts, prayers and ACTIONS….’

Singer Halsey famous the tragic frequency of mass shootings, and the way they felt the one strategy to fight it was on the poll field.

‘It is so tough to make statements and have interaction in conversations about lives lost to gun violence and mass shootings as a result of it’s so frequent and so horrific,’ Halsey stated. ‘But sadly it is usually a routine information story for this era and it shouldn’t be. I’ve nothing of worth so as to add to this dialog as a result of it by no means appears to maneuver ahead. And I don’t assume a graphic from a musician goes to do something however add noise to an already loud dialogue.’

The musical artist continued: ‘Just like a lot of you, as a mom I’m scared. As a giant sister I’m scared. As a citizen I’m offended. I can’t consider something to say in addition to be sure to’re registered to vote. I simply need all school age kids to be protected and never develop up within the epicenter of this trauma. It is so futile and revolting that lawmakers defend weapons over our youth. It’s despicable.’

Nick Jonas referred to as the incident ‘completely heartbreaking,’ saying that ‘youngsters shouldn’t have to fret about gun violence’ and ‘particularly shouldn’t have to fret about gun violence at school.’

He continued: ‘I’m sending my ideas and prayers to everybody who lost a cherished one on this horrific tragedy and all the far too frequent tragedies within the current weeks, months, and years. But that being stated, everyone knows that ideas and prayers should not sufficient.’

Kelly Osbourne made clear that she believed the difficulty was straight linked to gun control versus psychological well being reforms, tagging Texas Governor Greg Abbott into her publish.

‘I hope @GregAbbott_TX is pondering of the 19 kids who lost their lives whereas he’s talking on behalf of the #NRA this weekend,’ she stated. ‘Just to be clear I undergo from psychological well being. This is NOT nearly psychological well being. THIS IS ABOUT GUN CONTROL!!!!!!!!’

Jersey Shore star Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi shared an image of Xavier Lopez, one of many younger victims within the incident. She stated, ‘This is completely devastating!! These poor harmless kids & their households. This wants to finish!!!! God bless all of those kids unbelievable.’