Popsugar Celebrity Amanda Gorman Celebrities and Politicians React to the Texas Shooting Celebrities and Politicians React to Texas Elementary School Shooting: "There Simply Has to Be Change" 25 May 2022 by Eden Arielle Gordon Image Source: Getty / Allison Dinner On May 25, 18 children and one teacher were killed in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, officials confirmed. At least nine more children were reportedly injured. Robb Elementary School teaches pupils who are generally between the ages of 7 and 10. The school teaches 90 percent Hispanic students and 81 percent are considered economically disadvantaged, according to state data. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement that the 18-year-old active shooter, Salvador Ramos, "shot and killed horrifically, incomprehensibly, 14 students and killed a teacher." The shooter is also suspected of killing his grandmother. "He himself is deceased, and it is believed that responding officers killed him," Abbott added. The tragedy marks the 27th shooting at a school since the start of 2022, meaning there has been a mass shooting roughly once every 5.3 days this year. It comes only a little over a week after 10 people were killed in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. One day after, one person died and five people were injured in a shooting in a church in California. Politicians, public figures, and celebrities have already begun to speak out about the most recent of this string of senseless, entirely preventable tragedies. Read their statements ahead. 1 Matthew McConaughey View this post on Instagram A post shared by Matthew McConaughey (@officiallymcconaughey) 1 / 9 2 Taylor Swift Filled with rage and grief, and so broken by the murders in Uvalde. By Buffalo, Laguna Woods and so many others. By the ways in which we, as a nation, have become conditioned to unfathomable and unbearable heartbreak. Steve’s words ring so true and cut so deep. https://t.co/Rb5uwSTxty— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) May 25, 2022 2 / 9 3 LeBron James There simply has to be change! HAS TO BE!! 😔😔😔😔🥺🥺🥺🥺.. Praying to the heavens above to all with kids these days in schools. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾— LeBron James (@KingJames) May 24, 2022 3 / 9 My thoughts and prayers goes out to the families of love ones loss & injured at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX! Like when is enough enough man!!! These are kids and we keep putting them in harms way at school. Like seriously "AT SCHOOL" where it's suppose to be the safest!— LeBron James (@KingJames) May 24, 2022 4 / 9 4 Gabrielle Union Babies. We can't get numb to this. These are our babies, our families. How many of our babies need to be murdered for folks to be moved to action? What is the magic number? NONE of our babies are disposable. NONE of our neighbors, loved ones, hell strangers, are disposable! Sick— Gabrielle Union (@itsgabrielleu) May 24, 2022 5 / 9 5 Sen. Chris Murphy Sen. Chris Murphy delivers remarks on Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting: “What are we doing? What are we doing?…This only happens in this country and nowhere else. Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking that they might be shot that day." https://t.co/Zh3OvUaIwm pic.twitter.com/TjJVoaFbRN— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) May 24, 2022 6 / 9 6 Adam McKay The refusal to pass even basic new gun safety laws in the face of shooting after shooting isn’t “beltway politics” it’s political terrorism.— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) May 24, 2022 7 / 9 7 Amanda Gorman Schools scared to death.The truth is, one education under desks,Stooped low from bullets;That plunge when we askWhere our childrenShall live& how& if— Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman) May 24, 2022 8 / 9 8 Quinta Brunson every time this happens I watch the conversation move toward the why. Mental health, race, class, domestic dispute etc. I kind of can’t stand that because all it does is protect the only constant in each case: a gun.— quinta brunson (@quintabrunson) May 24, 2022 9 / 9 Amanda GormanUS NewsTrending TopicsLeBron JamesCelebrity Twitter