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Families of Uvalde victims turn from grief to action

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In the weeks since the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, families of the victims have begun to turn their grief into calls for change.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

What do you say? What do you do? After the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that question is hard for many people and hardest for families of the victims. NPR's Adrian Florido has been listening to them.

ADRIAN FLORIDO, BYLINE²: A week after burying his daughter, Amerie, who was killed at Robb Elementary, Alfred Garza came to Uvalde City Hall. He wanted to know whether town officials would consider canceling summer school because even as Garza grieves Amerie, he has a stepson who's supposed to be in class this summer.

ALFRED GARZA: He didn't feel good about going today. So his education is important, but his mental and physical health is more important to us. So we didn't send him to school today.

FLORIDO: Summer school is still on, a reminder³ for parents in Uvalde that life has to go on. But Garza asks, how, when this town and this town's schools no longer feel safe? Garza has a strong belief in God. And he's been relying on faith to get through the pain of losing Amerie. But he says he's not going to rely on faith alone to keep his stepson or other children in this community safe.

GARZA: It doesn't take a genius to figure out that what we're doing right now is not working and we need to change some things.

FLORIDO: Garza is working up his own plans to start fighting for change. He says he's also spoken with some of the other victims' families about what they might do next together.

GARZA: In due time, we're going to band together and fight this fight together, right? But everybody's time is going to come when they're ready. You know what I mean? I'm ready. My time is now. I'm ready to go, you know?

FLORIDO: Other parents of the shootings' victims are acting⁵ on their grief and anger, too. On Wednesday, Kimberly and Felix Rubio, whose 10-year-old daughter, Lexi, was killed at Robb, testified before the House Committee on Oversight⁶ and Reform.

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KIMBERLY RUBIO: We don't want you to think of Lexi as just a number. She was intelligent, compassionate⁷ and athletic⁸.

FLORIDO: Lexi was quiet, her mother said, and she was shy. But when she believed in something, she spoke⁴ with conviction in a firm voice.

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RUBIO: So today, we stand for Lexi. And as her voice, we demand action. We seek a ban on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines. We understand that for some reason, to some people, to people with money, to people who fund political campaigns, that guns are more important than children. So at this moment, we ask for progress.

FLORIDO: Corina Camacho is asking for accountability. Her son survived the shooting at Robb. He played dead as the gunman killed his classmates around him. He still has bullet fragments in his leg and is doing OK physically⁹. But emotionally, Camacho says, her son has shut down.

CORINA CAMACHO: He's OK with people he knows. But with new people, he won't really want to be there.

FLORIDO: Camacho has focused her anger on law enforcement for waiting too long to enter the classroom and kill the 18-year-old gunman.

CAMACHO: I'm still, like, really mad. Like, they should have gone in there. And those kids could have survived. Some of them can at least survive. They're going to have to pay for what they did. Like, they shouldn't have waited.

FLORIDO: Camacho hired an attorney, Stephanie Sherman, who's trying to figure out who to sue. She's looking for a way around the legal protections that often shield police departments and gun-makers.

STEPHANIE SHERMAN: That's going to require a lot of legal creativity and finding the pathway to justice. And I've got lots of ideas on how I'm going to do that.

FLORIDO: She's also considering suing Uvalde's school district. But she's waiting on evidence from the ongoing¹⁰ official investigations¹¹. Two blocks from Robb Elementary, Lydia Salazar is sitting in her sister's backyard. Their grandnephew, Jose Flores, was killed in the shooting. Salazar says she's been thinking a lot about the need for gun control.

LYDIA SALAZAR: Because it broke my heart when I saw my niece. It broke my heart when I saw my niece falling apart for her son. Bottom line is they need to stop the weapons for these kids.

FLORIDO: Salazar's sister, Angela Cordova (ph), says she has been feeling lost. Her own son was at the school that day and escaped. And now he doesn't want to return to school. Cordova is struggling to make sense of what's happened to her family and how it'll move forward, how any of the victims' families are supposed to move forward.

ANGELA CORDOVA: I have a lot of hate and I have a lot of anger because these kids should be living their life, running around all summer, getting into the swimming pool, going to the zoo, going to water parks - going through this because of some kid that decided¹² in his head - you know what? - I'm going to go shoot up a school.

FLORIDO: She wants to know, who's going to stand up and stop this from happening again?

Adrian Florido, NPR News, Uvalde, Texas.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 reminder   

n.提醒物，纪念品；暗示，提示

参考例句：

• I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
• It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知，她才付应该交的房租。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

6 oversight   

n.勘漏，失察，疏忽

参考例句：

• I consider this a gross oversight on your part.我把这件事看作是你的一大疏忽。
• Your essay was not marked through an oversight on my part.由于我的疏忽你的文章没有打分。

7 compassionate   

adj.有同情心的，表示同情的

参考例句：

• She is a compassionate person.她是一个有同情心的人。
• The compassionate judge gave the young offender a light sentence.慈悲的法官从轻判处了那个年轻罪犯。

8 athletic   

adj.擅长运动的，强健的；活跃的，体格健壮的

参考例句：

• This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
• He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。

9 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

10 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

11 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

12 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。