WATCH: Disgraceful O'Rourke Attempts to Politicize Uvalde Tragedy

Beto is the epitome of lip service you twats. By the way ignoring facts where there are already strict gun control laws and high murder counts proves this is ALL political for you as well. Makes you no better than those you rant about. At least this time the media can't stir this into a racial frenzy because it was a mentally disturbed cross dressing Hispanic who committed this horrible crime. All of the signs were there, but they were all ignored by his parents, teachers and peers. But go ahead and blame that gun....

You can't fix 23 deaths buddy. Proving yet again this is political. Blame the guy in charge or the gun, but not the ppl around him or the ppl who raised him. Very bad look

Uvalde school district had detailed security plan in place at time of elementary school massacre
From CNN’s Peter Nickeas

The Uvalde school district where 19 children and two teachers were killed by a gunman this week had a safety plan that included its own police force, social media monitoring and a threat reporting system to “provide a safe and secure environment” for students. 

The two-page document on the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District website lists 21 different measures that it says it has undertaken for the safety of the school community, ranging from an app for reporting bullying to physical security measures, like fencing and a buzz-in door system. It’s not clear to what degree the plan was developed with active shooters in mind.

Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Chris Olivarez on Thursday said the gunman, identified as Salvador Ramos, gained access to the school through an unlocked door.

Records show the district spent about $200,000 on security and monitoring services in 2017-18 and that figure rose to more than $450,000 in the 2019-20 school year.

The district employed four police officers, including a chief, detective, and two officers. The school district also had additional security staff “who patrol door entrances, parking lots and perimeters of the campuses.”

The plan included a “threat reporting system” for “students, parents, staff, and community members” to share information that is deemed “troubling,” which could include information about weapons, threats, fights, drugs, self- harm, suicide or disclosures made that are concerning.” The policy states reports could be made through the district site or to a district staff member.

The district also employed a company called Social Sentinel to monitor social media “with a connection to Uvalde as a measure to identify any possible threats that might be made against students and or staff within the school district.” 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the gunman wrote about his intentions on Facebook, including “I’m going to shoot an elementary school.” A spokesperson for Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said the gunman’s private one-to-one messages were discovered after the shooting.

Ramos allegedly sent similarly chilling text messages to a girl he met online describing how he had just shot his grandmother and was going to shoot up an elementary school. 

The security plan also refers to lockdown drills. “Students receive training on the Standard Response Protocol for lockout, lockdown, evacuate, shelter, and hold. In addition, drills are held for each of these emergency actions on a regular basis," the plan said.

Two other schools, Uvalde High School and Anthon Elementary, have security vestibules, though it is not clear if Robb had one. The plan lists security cameras at the high school and middle schools, though it’s not clear how many are at the grade school where the shooting happened. “Key staff” were also equipped with radios, but it’s not clear if those were for use within the building or meant to communicate across the district.

The document is undated, but has “19-20” in the file name, possibly a reference to the 2019-2020 school year. 

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has not responded to multiple CNN requests for comment.

This tired argument has run its course. This IS a political issue because politicians have the power to make changes. The ignorance and mental gymnastics you utilize to turn this around and make Beto the enemy is quite astounding. Somewhere deep down I think you must that your bias is getting in the way of your logical decision making. Beto genuinely wants to stop future tragedies and here you are using the same old talking points. The real disgrace is the atrocious writing and extreme bias of whoever writes these sh** articles.