Survivors of Uvalde school shooting honored

Nearly a year after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary, two survivors received an award for their heroic calls to 911. ABC News contributor Maria Elena Salinas explains.
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[@nadiabarahona4879]

Do not give them awards, give them change.

[@silentmajority8365]

School security

[@sqseq1237]

@@silentmajority8365 Give the girls awards and the schools changes, including security.

[@Glimmmerra]

@@silentmajority8365 Change society's supremely selfish attitude towards guns and the laws allowing the US to have the massive proliferation of guns and the highest rate of child deaths by guns, not to mention mass killings globally. Well regulated means well regulated. School security doesn't make up for a sick society owned by the NRA and corrupt politicians with children's blood on their hands.

[@GrandChessboard]

@@silentmajority8365 The school had "security", but they ran from the shooter...

[@silentmajority8365]

@@GrandChessboard Entrances should be secure Harder to get on a plane than a school DUH

[@Lavender_Cordle]

Free medical care for life including mental health care should be given to the families of everyone at this school. These babies will never be the same.

[@mehere8038]

Should give every child who lives through a shooting a war veteran's pension & medical benefits, war widow's pension to their parents. They lived through a warzone, they've earnt it! & maybe if that was in place there would be financial insensitive for the government to stop sending 8 year olds to war!

[@359Joey]

Pretty sure they were all already on medicaid..

[@mehere8038]

​@@359Joey There is a HUGE difference between medicaid & veteran's benefits isn't there!!!!!!! China & Mexico have better universal health care than medicaid provides! One of the kids in the story has bullet fragments through her whole body & is being told to just wait & hope they fall out instead of getting surgery to remove them ffs! No wonder life expectancy in Texas is lower than in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, China & Sri Lanka!

[@janetslater129]

As someone who has PTSD, it's no joke, and I really hope that these students continue to get the help that they need.

[@simoliz03]

[@Asiaisastar]

@@simoliz03 this emoji is so cute

[@mnmdisney]

The levels of PTSD all the school age children in the U.S is going to impact our society in a way that has never been seen, way to go adults for leaving them to be targets.

[@mehere8038]

It's not just that. Look up "learned helplessness", where you train young children or animals that they are powerless & must just submit to whatever authorities do to you. That absolutely destroys democracies & freedoms & leads into total authoritarian control - and that is what all children in the US are being trained in, as they train in how to hide from the inevitable shooters that they will experience in their childhood. It's destroying the very fabric of your society!

[@myralyra5978]

Yeah if we all make it long enough to see these kids become adults at this rate most of us won’t

[@diaryofafreebitch]

THIS! The real effects of trauma happen after, some days it’s all you can think about and you don’t have the energy to even shower.

[@Alexis_005]

I know what you mean, at my daughter’s school 4th graders were playing outside when they heard loud bangs, they immediately ran inside the school scared and crying. Only to find out that it was fireworks someone lit in the adjacent area. That’s how scared kids are these days

[@mehere8038]

@@Alexis_005 you know, if someone rescued a dog that behaved like that, animal services would investigate the previous owner for animal abuse (at least in my country) yet authorities are not willing to even acknowledge, let alone help & support your kids to escape that abuse? Children deserve better! NOT ok! We have had that situation created at one school in Australia btw, after a copycat attempt of the Texas shooting. Councillors have been brought in, school gates locked temporarily, to make the kids feel safe, while the government reforms the entire state's gun laws to make sure they feel properly safe permanently! Politicians here weren't able to watch high school children crying on tv & talking about how scared they were as they ran & hid in classrooms & cupboards, it upset the politicians - and all adults way too much for anyone to be willing to allow any chance of it happening again! That's how it should be! Children are our future! They have a right to be protected! That's the sole responsibility of any species - to protect it's future generation/s!

[@je8784]

Still breaks my heart seeing 20 cops afraid of one kid. Eating donuts while children were being slaughtered. Too cowardly to protect them. Shame on Texas.

[@carlie.13.TS.]

Not shame on Texas, shame on the world. There’s just really evil people out there.

[@tammyleath4964]

They don’t need awards but they need to be protected. We as adults have a duty to the children to make them feel safe.

[@adden2242]

they dont need awards?? they're heroes!!

[@dhoneofficial]

@@adden2242 the awards are fine and nice, but they’re safety is important and that’s what the user was trying to say! And these two girls know that as well!

[@valkstorm981]

Honestly imagine being given an award for surviving a tragic event every time they look at that award it’s gonna remind them and give them ptsd

[@jaretzyvargas1306]

it’s so hard hearing that Miah had to put blood on herself to stay alive and fake being dead 🥺. And hearing Khloie 911 call saying she was with a lot of victims. these poor girls did not deserve what happened to them and to their friends 🥺

[@mehere8038]

What broke my heart was her 911 call where the operator is telling her she needs to get the other children to be quiet & she's saying that she's trying & you can hear the other little children whimpering, but dying as quietly as they can in the background - lying there, shot, in excruciating pain, but doing as they have been trained, in dying as quietly as possible, so as to protect their little children friends who may yet survive. What kind of world, or country, teaches it's little children to die quietly like that? That's just heartbreaking imo! The covering herself in her friends blood to survive isn't much better though is it. Just SO wrong the way society has let down these little children!

[@kawaibakaneko]

@@mehere8038 They acted like it's like a warzone, this country is a dystopian nightmare

[@361Ratch]

As an almost 30 year old woman who was diagnosed with major depression at 10 yo. It makes my heart so happy to know these children are so strong. As well as the family. I can’t imagine having to live my life having a child or loved one taken away like that.

[@PalashaGabarra]

As someone who is currently wearing a grey shirt, no one cares about your depression. I don't know why you even felt the need to start off by announcing your likely bullshit mental condition when it wasn't relevant.

[@alessandroortiz379]

Using another students blood to fake death is smart yet haunting

[@lattelo5973]

These poor babies 😢 I pray that they continue to heal 🙏🏽

[@ashrithreddy5967]

Prayers still to the families that lost their children after a year since the Uvalde shooting, so sad and they are still grieving!

[@RiggsBF]

The USA needs to reform it's gun laws. There are many ways to do this such as: 1. Raising the minimum age for semi-autos to 21 or higher 2. High school Diploma required for semi-autos 3. Doctor's approval needed to buy a gun 4. Guns require registration 5. Enforce the Red Flag Laws 6. Background check on all sales including private sales 7. A 2 week waiting period to buy a gun and an additional week waiting period to buy ammunition 8. Limit the amount of guns and ammo that can be purchased at a time 9. Safety course training required Notice I didn't say anything about bans. Personally I think the USA should have the same gun laws as Sweden or the Czech Republic

[@PonyBoy1776]

Thank you for the irrelevant opinion

[@powerstar817]

​@@PonyBoy1776 your attitude is the reason, kids die. Brainless people are abundant in United States.

[@boblove6865]

​​@@PonyBoy1776t's only irrelevant to ammosexuals. This is the last generation that is going to put up with your "well regulated militia" killing children. Fuck you

[@careercriticalthinker]

You really enjoy people laughing at you, don't you?

[@RiggsBF]

@@PonyBoy1776 How is my irrelevant?

[@lauralee83]

Awww.. they have slumber parties 😢. A great way to connect and talk with each other , and help each other with their trauma. So heartbreaking but gives me hope for these families .

[@mariearmstrong9185]

Their Police Department and all departments there FAILED every single chil and adult in that school.

[@gordsruby5963]

Yes... maybe you can teach law enforcement officers how a real youtube citizen does it, maybe you can offer recliner chair, angry/sad face emoji training from your keyboard. Maybe you can open your own academy, you can call it the full time stay at home, recliner chair citizen training academy.

[@GrandChessboard]

@@gordsruby5963 LOL, you sound like one of those coward cops. Sa and pathetic to defend them.

[@mehere8038]

@@gordsruby5963 We use cafe chairs instead of recliner chairs in Australia to take down criminals with guns - actually we use the coffee bottle too, works great as a weapon to disarm them, chairs were used in a different incident, to throw at the gunman & then barrackade him under until police with the guns could arrive. Coffee jar was used due to the armed man trying to carjack the man that had just bought the jar of coffee. Old woman involved in an attempted handbag snatching at gun point used her handbag to swing at the gunman & knock him out too. We just use whatever's available, we don't need guns, we're not cowards like the police in that Texas school shooting! So yeh, maybe they could learn a thing or 2 from youtubers! Really though, they should just all be fired & left to live their lives in shame for how they failed those defenceless kids & arrested their parents, who were willing to act in the same way typical Aussies do in response to guns. If the kids parents had the balls to go in to save their kids unarmed, why were the police unable to go in & save them when armed to the teeth? What kind of cowards stop those trying to save their lives, while failing to do the job they signed up for & are happily taking the pay cheque for pretending to do everyday huh?

[@themoonatnight1868]

@@gordsruby5963 we’ll apparently the department had just completed a active shooter drill in the months prior. So they were well aware of how protocol is supposed to go and what to do….and they did NONE of it! They failed to do anything right then passed the blame on each other.

[@gordsruby5963]

@@themoonatnight1868 Correct schools do practice active shooter drills with staff and their students, but as for situations like a mentally ill teenaged gunman who has barricaded himself in a small classroom with innocent children, cops are never prepared to deal with the gore they are about to witness. This should have been prevented before the 911 call and before the bloodshed.

[@caseymallory1774]

🙏🙏🙏 for all of the families

[@PhoenixPrime]

The true reward these children deserve is a future without gun violence. A better future.

[@chrxi]

i cant imagine how happy they were about getting their awards, ready to go home and show their parents awards, so happy. 2 seconds later they hear gunshots, screams, blood, policeman. no child should ever be going through trauma at such a young age. some not being able to see their family, their home, their pets, everything one last time.

[@dorab2402]

As an educator and a mother my heart is absolutely broken for what these children, educators and families have gone through. We go through training to prepare for situations like this and my heart absolutely breaks to think that my students may have to go through a situation like this. To think about the fact that as educators, we are completely helpless, and have to rely on throwing objects and barricading to counter a gunman, is beyond terrifying. To think that I would be in a situation, where I would give my life to protect my students, and at the same time, leave an infant daughter motherless keeps me up at night. I know there is a lot of controversy surrounding gun control, and while it seems that there will never be a solution as long as people continue to fight; we should then focus on making schools as impenetrable as prisons. It is sad to think that innocent children are more vulnerable to gun violence and intruders, than people who are incarcerated.

[@evelinagleisner930]

This is so sad and such a tragedy 😞 glad some survived and rest in peace to everyone who sadly lost their life’s ❤

[@havencrist6362]

God bless these families and children

[@taurus_7]

*Sometimes, true friendship can come from such devastating tragedies* - Unknown -

[@Urelliex]

I cant even imagine being in a situation like that...

[@vivianasong7271]

God bless you all.

[@Zander_943]

I feel so bad for these children’s parents 😢😢😢😢

[@a.r.h9919]

America is one of the few countries that instead of hyper fixating to create harsher regulations of weapons gives medals to children as if they were veterans of war by literally going to school

[@mehere8038]

but notice how they don't give them the financial benefits that war veterans get, despite having earnt it! Poor kid's got a body full of shrapnel & all of them have severe PTSD, but they don't get basic benefits that go with being a soldier in combat (or even the basic medical that goes with living in any developed world country!)

[@PalashaGabarra]

America is one of few countries that is free. Suck it.

[@Renae5147]

A piece of glass isn’t going to bring their friends back. It isn’t gonna heal the internal wounds . The only way healing can truly begin is if change happens, otherwise these kids are going to live in fear the rest of there lives. No 10 year old should have the thousand yard stare.

[@mehere8038]

@@Renae5147 Don't feed the troll/gaslighter. Just click the 3 little dots next to the comment, select "report" & "misinformation" & walk away. Trolls need to go back under their bridge where no-one can see or hear them!

[@mehere8038]

@@Renae5147 & I agree. We had a copycat in Australia on the anniversary, no-one hit, cause gun controls did their job in that regard, but the kids were still clearly distraught at being shot at at their school, so state's leader has said clearly he is going to tighten gun laws so it can't happen again. That's what needs to happen in the US too! EVERYTIME a shooting happens, tighten the gun laws! That way it's on gun owners to police their own & stop the attacks, or face tougher restrictions on their own gun ownership. That's actually a large part of why shootings are so rare in Australia, PLENTY of guns here, but anyone living in a city, wanting a gun for sports shooting, is required to regularly attend gun clubs, where their peers can monitor them & report if they see someone that's a threat to their gun rights. It works!

[@careercriticalthinker]

@mehere8038 The proof is literally there that these events are staged, faked, and produced by DHS. You aren't in any danger of being underestimated, Karen. I've researched these gungrab shitshows for the past 16 years. The media are funded by gun control lobbyist who hire the media to air these events a gun control propaganda. The media are always on site at the locations BEFORE the event. You are ignorant as a box of rocks if you believe these events are real. I have saved plenty of video, literary, and audio evidence to back up my research. The proof is right in front of you if you perform your research correctly. What's YOUR excuse?? A properly researched investigator such as myself?.....or a paid gun control shill???.......Who do YOU believe will have the right answers??.........................................I'll wait. And to be honest, you had your own staged event in New Zealand at Christ Church a few years ago. And my sources over in New Zealand busted THAT event as a confirmed hoax, too.

[@PalashaGabarra]

​@@mehere8038 No. I don't have to justify my right to own a firearm. If people are so worried about getting caught in a mass shooting, they can get one themselves and defend themselves.

[@mehere8038]

@@PalashaGabarra we defend ourselves just fine if someone pulls out a gun in Australia. Not at a school obviously, priority there was the safety of the children & let the police deal with the gunman, but whether it's in a cafe or carjacking or handbag theft from an old lady, the intended victim and/or those that witness it always jump in & grab or otherwise disable the gunman, either barehanded or using what's available, such as a jar of coffee to hit him on the head, handbag he was trying to steal the old lady hit that one with, chairs thrown at the cafe one etc etc. Only pathetic cowards need guns to protect themselves! Real men & women don't!

[@ginny1435]

My teacher was talking about this and it almost made me cry cause we had a practice drill

[@alicianelson1252]

The sad thing is calling 911 didn't help at all

[@gordsruby5963]

No... the sad thing I'd citizens did nothing to help the situation. A year later you want to throw your 2 cents in and criticize others from a recliner chair.

[@GrandChessboard]

@@gordsruby5963 LOL, the two cops that were at the school when the shooter arrived should not have run away like cowards. The 400 leo that showed up should not have waited 77 minutes before going in. Citizens of Uvalde actually tried to go in and were stopped by the police. The woman that went in and got kids out should not have been harassed by the police. Sad and pathetic....

[@gordsruby5963]

@@GrandChessboard LOL hahaha 😂 😂 how would you know? It's been a year since the massacre and you're just now stumbling across a youtube video pretending to be angry and playing the victim, lol hahahaha lmao crying out loud!!! Cops waited 77 minutes and you waited 12 months, tomatoes, tomatos.

[@mehere8038]

@@GrandChessboard yup, the parents were heroes & even those not recognised as such attempted to be, but the cowards in uniform were intimidated by their bravery & arrested instead of supporting them!

[@alicianelson1252]

@@gordsruby5963 what the fuck where citizens suppose to do

[@chuchoelroto1318]

This still saddens me. Still can't believe how it all went down. May The Lord help them all with the troubles they are having. Although, more is needed, prayers are not enough.

[@Hello-lm1fv]

They should be offered scholarships later and private schooling for free now until college and free online college at home tuition and all that so they can still be educated and feel safe

[@mehere8038]

or better still would be offer them law reforms, so that they could safely return to the classroom! We learnt what we already knew during covid, online learning does not meet the social needs of children!

[@PalashaGabarra]

​@@mehere8038 Children can meet their social needs through sports and other activity. The purpose of school is not to socialize. God you liberals all have such low IQ opinions about everything.

[@Grandmomof30]

This surely was a sad reminder of how a mad man can find a way into a school n take lives just for whatever reason he had a gun even though he was sick. I pray for those children n the adults who lost their lives.

[@dadajurgenhotmaildada4693]

🙏🕊

[@thecloudiris]

There so brave.

[@dadajurgenhotmaildada4693]

🙏❤

[@DaisyHudson]

Stupid question, do they make those kids and teachers go back into the school? Wouldnt that cause ptsd.

[@ginngucci]

💔

[@peterhaitch7507]

not only were the cops cowards but they had the bravery to cuff and tazer the people , civilians , who were willing to go in! Every coward cop in the hallway should resign in shame starting with the acting chief, I was ashamed to be human after seeing those clips , for heavens sake one of those gutless cops had his wife in that classroom omfg!

[@mehere8038]

I didn't hear about the wife thing. WTF is wrong with those cowards - and the cowards in government who have not fired the lot of them! I hope that wife survived to divorce & shame him!

[@peterhaitch7507]

@@mehere8038 100% he did , in the hallway clips you see a big cop pretending to hold him back after she called him informing him that its her classroom and she is scared and surrounded by dead kids!!!

[@peterhaitch7507]

@@mehere8038 kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6SypXqnpMSUerM&pp=ygUnY29wcyB3aWZlIGluIHJvYmIgZWxlbWVudGFyeSBjbGFzc3Jvb20g

[@mehere8038]

@@peterhaitch7507 oh, ok, you're a conspiracy nut. "pretending" to be held back??????

[@PalashaGabarra]

Cowardly or brave, corrupt or honorable, it doesn't matter. You can't depend on cops to save you. They're there as a general deterrence, and to investigate crimes afterwards. Your safety is your responsibility.

[@jksynth]

Where is uvalde texas?

[@kaebee2443]

The bullet fragments going inside instead of coming out. So sad.

[@abbijayne]

People die two deaths. With friends like these girls, the victims will never truly be gone

[@Alexis_005]

A lot more kids could have been saved if the police weren’t cowards.

[@skadi6750]

and if kids and unstable people didnt have access to guns...

[@HCJH]

It is so sad

[@JacobJasinskiAlexander]

Awarding now traumatized chilling for surviving a school shooting is unbelievable and absolutely disgusting.

[@r.a.c.h6172]

😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@nevarcruz4852]

Omg man

[@Notoriouswrestlingfan12314]

These two girls had the most balls and are smarter then those idiots 400 cops who just did nothing

[@user-rx5dq8ds4o]

I know my mom would jump through those fences and get me and my siblings❤

[@2muchzen]

I wouldn’t want an award. I wild want my friends back.

[@jksynth]

More security needed not less

[@Giftedtib]

Good kids

[@imanieaddy7314]

Here’s a question have you ever had school shooting I haven’t not in my school

[@Thebellbell]

My cousin was at the school right this

[@AaronSmith-ed6lf]

🙏🇺🇲

[@emberlightss]

Jacklyn was 9

[@roselynibanez6534]

Amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen amen 😢🕊️❤️

[@twillacatron7596]

i feel bad for the victims.

[@ZootZinBootZ]

Why keep guns more dear than children ?? USA is horrific.

[@myralyra5978]

Yes it’s terrible here

[@PalashaGabarra]

Retard.

[@XDoc6969]

Then what happen to lost thier kids?? Same give a That AWARDS??

[@user-uv7lp5kh2y]

I can't believe that swat team never intervene. You know what. The teacher should of jump through window

[@agirlnamedkeith]

This is a joke. When will we get real change?

[@mehere8038]

when you force it

[@dadajurgenhotmaildada4693]

👀😨

[@timmysdad9009]

too bad the cops did nothing

[@myralyra5978]

Prayers are worthless to the kids with their brains on the floor and it’s kick in a face to the parents of the kids who didn’t make it

[@VeggieStraws3]

RIDICULOUS! Giving awards to “survivors”.

[@carolinemorgan5741]

Those survivors called 911 from inside the classroom where someone was trying to kill it. While it won’t heal their wounds even if it gave them a sliver of happiness for once second it’s so worth it. piss off these girls are more heroic than you will ever be

[@kawaibakaneko]

This reward shouldn't exist. The kids risked their lives calling for a bunch of coward, who did nothing beside scratching their asses....

[@tuneein4]

Them officers failed everybody in the school.

[@dadajurgenhotmaildada4693]

👀👌

[@Superchomama]

Any politicians made any sort of change here after one year? I bet if something like this happened to their love ones, they would be more empathetic of how the children and their families are feeling. Is it worth it? The money? The "rights" at the risk of what has happened?

[@PalashaGabarra]

Arm yourself if you're that worried.

[@Superchomama]

@@PalashaGabarra Uvalde police were pretty well armed, better train than the average gun owner, and how well did that go?

[@PalashaGabarra]

@@Superchomama I can't relate to sheltered cowards. You're like a different species. Don't @ me.

[@Superchomama]

@@PalashaGabarra thanks keyboard warrior.

[@cgerardo2011]

Apple iPhone save her

[@vextxres]

This country is going to shit

[@Ariiiilola]

This tragedy, ALL tragedies of this world, will SOON be undone. Jehovah God +Jesus will *SOON bring back our Lost ones after the Earth 🌎🌍 is cleared of Violence +Badness. Plz learn how to stay over +be part of this @JW/Jehovah's Witnesses

[@Hello-lm1fv]

Did any boys survive? I would hope they don’t exclude them from the gatherings just cuz if they’re gender. They are survivors and kids too and desvere to be included

[@mehere8038]

wtf? plenty of videos of surviving boys being interviewed! The awards were to the kids who called 911 - who happened to be girls. If that makes you feel insecure about your gender, that's your problem, not the problem of the hero girls that risked their lives to make those calls!

[@PalashaGabarra]

Did you assume their gender?

[@edgarross9955]

What, no awards for the heroic Uvalde Police? 😂

[@Mcybunny]

So they nothing

[@user-pb4hv3wz1j]

Giving them awards for surviving ? 😂

[@tubularbrit88]

For taking action and calling 911

[@heatherkate93]

Well someone didn’t bother watching the video before commenting 😂

[@ayemyatmon2692]

Hey US let me gives you an advise from non American like myself. Ban guns BAN THE GUNS!!!

[@PalashaGabarra]

No one asked for your opinion, and no thanks. I'll keep my gun.

[@kurupi68]

And why don't they honor those ''heroes'' in blue too??? Those who exposed themselves to save so many lives that day??? Please honor those cowards, I mean, those ''heroes'' too.

[@dae737]

Isabella cisernos vaughn

[@dae737]

Cornelious Audrey vaughn

[@dae737]

Why you'd get to do her daddy and her stepmoms n.a.a.c.p.

[@dae737]

Ubaldie wasn't good enough , morgan

[@dae737]

Mexican only wants one last name

[@brittanyfischer1812]

Fake that he shot her is what saved her life way to go. Way to go Mia