Local Uvalde newspaper stuns with ‘POWERFUL’ cover in response to mass shooting

(Video Credit: MSNBC)

Sometimes there are no words to convey loss and that powerful message was articulated perfectly by the Uvalde Leader-News on Thursday as the media publication reported on the aftermath of the Robb Elementary School massacre, where an 18-year-old psychopath took the lives of 19 students and two teachers.

The front page of the paper was printed in solid black with Tuesday’s date in white swimming in a sea of darkness. It was meant to be a forceful statement to memorialize the children and teachers who perished at the hands of an evil individual who shot and killed them without mercy. The image immediately went viral on social media.

The twice-weekly paper has been in print in Uvalde since 1879. The small town of approximately 16,000 residents is located about 50 miles from the Mexican border.

MSNBC reporter Jose Diaz-Balart showed the front of the paper at the beginning of his show on Thursday, noting, “There is so much pain, among so many.” He marveled at the paper’s message as he reported live from Uvalde, “a town marked by profound grieving and profound disbelief.”

Inside the paper on the first ten pages, normal news was displayed including reporting on graduations, taxes, local elections, weather, and sports. The paper reported that three collegiate rodeo athletes qualified for the National Rodeo Finals in what would have been a normal week if not for the slaughter that had just occurred.

The tragedy was shunned on those pages except for the announcement of a blood drive at the civic center on Saturday where there is an urgent need for donors, especially those with Type O blood. There was also an advertisement for the Robb School Memorial Fund that was established by the First State Bank of Uvalde. An ad for the Uvalde Honey Festival, which had been scheduled for June 10 through 11, was canceled without explanation.

But the last two pages of the 12-page newspaper told a vastly different story and reported on the massacre at length.

Under the headline, “City’s Soul Crushed,” the back page of the paper shows photos of children being pulled out of the school through windows, and a teacher running to safety after the last of her students were evacuated from the building.

Another story shows the shooter’s abandoned pickup truck that had crashed into a ditch and a rifle believed to be the killer’s, sitting on top of a duffle bag on the ground next to the passenger door.

The school district’s graduation ceremonies, which had been scheduled for Friday, have been reportedly postponed according to the newspaper as well.

“My heart is broken,” Hal Harrell, the district’s superintendent, told the paper. “We are a small community and we are going to need your prayers to get through this.”

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  2. Having worked for over 40 years in and around public schools in my state I can say that, at the least, armed security in numbers large enough to police the school is the smallest security response. But armed security is kind of like law enforcement anywhere. They can’t be everywhere at the same time.

    Our state has a no weapon on campus law. So arming and training the adults in the school probably will not happen until that is changed. It is under discussion by state government at this time. Background checks along with fingerprinting are already in place for all school staff and employees. So they would probably require a psychological test before allowing them to armed carry. Much like police testing. The FBI has a study out showing that armed citizens stopped a lot of active shooters incidents in 2021.

    I will add that there have been several instance, probably not all of them, of students getting caught with guns and other weapons on campus. One where a girl was accidentally shot and killed. So some students and probably adults are ignoring that law.

  3. Where were the sheriffs department for an hour again? You know the ones that couldn’t get through the barricade.

  4. Be a good Democrat, ban guns, knives, hammers, screwdrivers, rope, duct tape, rocks, anything that could be a weapon. Require all such items to have serial numbers for identification and permits for there possession or use. Sounds a little crazy? If, the shoe fits, join the club! Extreme solution: Fence school grounds, top with razor wire, security gate with metal detection and cctv monitoring. Armed school safety officers, guaranteed 99% efficiency.

  5. “My heart is broken,”…, better watch out, if Whoopi Goldberg hears that she just might punch you…

  6. Should be every newspaper until the filthy globalists are trampled into the dirt

    1. After reading this, I was going to comment the same thing. Not even winter yet and seems their darkness keeps spreading.

  7. Politicians, celebrity award shows, sporting events, etc., have massive security. Our most vulnerable and honest citizens are apparently not worthy of consideration from our inept and incompetent politicians and judges that tie the hands of law enforcement.

    1. I am a retired teacher from Colorado and I was in my first year when Columbine happened. At one point in time our district and even the Colorado legislature look at the possibility of training and Arming select anonymous teacher to carry and be prepared to take a shooter down. I totally agreed with this and told everyone that I would be happy to be one of those teachers. The backlash that I got from other teachers was relentless. They called me every name in the book and asked me how I could even think about killing a child. I told them that I would rather take this “child” down than risk him/her killing innocent people.

      They also talked about getting and guards and again, people went ballistic. They were saying that it would make kids feel like they were in a prison and students can’t learn in that environment. I countered with the argument that kids would feel safer under guard and that their fear of some shooter would come and shoot them would actually diminish that fear and would help them be able to focus on their lessons. But again, I faced severe backlash. I finally just shut up.

      But then, this was democrat run Colorado where they believe that posting a sign that says, “This is a no gun zone” will keep someone out if they want to come in and kill people because we have all seen how well this had worked in the past.

      1. And yet these same people don’t seem to mind armed security in most federal buildings, many state buildings, county buildings airports, jewelry stores, malls, hospitals, sporting events, political events, etc. But not in our schools no gun zones And people wonder why the schools are targeted. Once again we see where high IQ and common sense are not necessarily related.

  8. After Sandy Hook (10 years ago!) multiple simple solutions were suggested that were IGNORED:

    1. Don’t mandate, but allow teachers who are trained and willing to be armed.
    2. Put an armed Resource officer (Police or ex-military) in each school.
    3. Once school is in session, eliminate all access except through the front entrance which is locked and protected.
    4. Review all mental health protocols for students identified as threats and drop the racist 2014 Obama directives that stopped schools from expelling or criminally charging violent students because of “disparate” impact.

    The reason schools are attacked is because they are easy “soft” targets for any cowardly, mentally ill potential shooter. This tragedy probably could have been prevented if these simple (and not costly) steps would have been in place. Instead, the government wants to politicize every tragedy to push to confiscate guns from law abiding citizens while ignoring the mass murder going on in our cities every day and ignoring simple solutions that could prevent these kinds of horrific shootings. The government sent billions of dollars to schools for COVID and we have no idea how that money was spent. Why weren’t these simple solution enacted? We all know the government is not interested in solution but prefers a “crises” and a horrible tragedy to try and enact their political agenda.

    1. Did you see what patheic tweet Obama put out? He is a disgrace to all living persons. Actually brought up George Floyd and recieving a lot of back lash.

      1. Just proves that one black serial criminal is worth more than all those children and teachers. I guess black is all he knows.

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