Uvalde’s residents, most of them Mexican American, have watched television news broadcasters describe their suffering in French and Japanese and politicians resurrect familiar arguments about gun control. “This shouldn’t happen in Uvalde.”AdvertisementLong before Tuesday, reality interfered with some visions of Uvalde as a pastoral idyll. “I don’t know, man.”Biden’s first stop Sunday was the memorial outside Robb Elementary School, located in a quiet grid of streets overhung with pecan trees and roamed by quarrelsome chickens. AdvertisementChavez, who suffers from diabetes and hypertension, sat in a chair on her front porch as her neighbors began to run toward Robb Elementary. Terrazas, a 70-year-old auto inspector, has spent her entire life in Uvalde and was accustomed to doing favors for people.

Source: Washington Post May 30, 2022 04:24 UTC