Shooting in Texas: In Uvalde, grief and faith in guns

Po shelter from the merciless sun, Jesse Ortiz, 50, took refuge under a tree with his daughter. He contemplates, from the garden in front of his house, the media madness, the flags at half mast, the ballet of the police. Ortiz lives across the street from Robb Elementary in this tidy, middle-class neighborhood of Uvalde, Texas. On Tuesday, he was having lunch with his wife when he heard the gunshots. “A few minutes later, I saw police rushing into the school. It was very sad. I understood what was happening. For the police to go to a school like this… I was praying, ‘God, don’t let any of these kids get hurt.’ But unfortunately, that’s what happened…” An 18-year-old young man killed 21 people, including 19 children. O’s niece…