Biden Considering Dramatic Plan For Shooting-Tainted Uvalde School

A makeshift memorial at Robb Elementary School is filled with flowers, toys, signs, and crosses bearing the names of all 21 victims of the mass shooting that occurred on May 24, in Uvalde, Texas, on May 27, 2022. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

A Texas state senator revealed that President Joe Biden is considering destroying and rebuilding Robb Elementary School—the site of the May 24 mass shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.

After Biden visited Uvalde, where the school is located, state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who represents the town, said Biden suggested that the school be torn down.

“He said, ‘I’m not going away. I’m going to bring you resources. We’re going to look to raze that school, build a new one,’” the official told KSAT-TV. “I can’t tell you how many little children that I’ve talked to that don’t want to go into that building. They’re just traumatized. They’re just destroyed.”

After the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which left 26 dead, officials tore down that building and rebuilt it. There was also consideration to raze and replace Columbine High School in 2019—about 20 years after the mass shooting that left 13 dead—because of what officials said was a “morbid fascination” with the two mass shooters.

Last year, the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, voted to tear down the church after a gunman went on a rampage in 2017, killing at least 26 people, KENS reported.

“This is a community that is going to need therapy. There is one psychiatrist in Uvalde, very few mental health therapists. We’re going to change that. It is a must,” Gutierrez told KSAT over the weekend.

During his May 29 visit, Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited a memorial and met with the parents of victims before returning to Washington. He didn’t make any public remarks.

People gather at a memorial site to pay their respects to the victims killed in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on May 26, 2022. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden pay their respects at a makeshift memorial outside of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 29, 2022. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

A day before that, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, in separate speaking events, suggested that they would back more gun control measures. Harris said that there needs to be an “assault weapons ban,” although she didn’t specify what constitutes an assault weapon, as some Democrats have proposed bills in recent months that would ban nearly all semiautomatic rifles.

On May 24, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School and shot and killed 19 children and two adults. Officials recently said that police waited more than an hour before entering the building to stop the assailant, who was eventually killed by a Customs and Border Protection agent.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed that it would review how law enforcement dealt with the shooting amid public comments from officials suggesting that responding police delayed their response to Ramos’s rampage. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin made the request, according to the department.

“The goal of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders prepare for and respond to active shooter events,” DOJ spokesman Anthony Coley said in a May 29 statement.

The DOJ’s Office of Community Oriented Policing will review the response and will publish a report, the agency stated. It isn’t clear when the report will be released, however, or what it will entail.