Taylor Swift on the Uvalde school shooting: “Filled with rage and grief, and so broken”

nme.com:

Taylor Swift has said that she is “filled with rage and grief” following a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas which left 19 young children and two adults dead.An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School, which teaches children aged seven to 10, yesterday (May 24).

Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that the suspect was later shot dead by responding law enforcement officials.In an address given at The White House last night, US President Joe Biden said he was “sick and tired” of responding to mass shootings and called for tougher gun control measures.“How many scores of little children who witnessed what happened – see their friends die, as if they’re in a battlefield, for God’s sake,” he said. “They’ll live with it the rest of their lives.”I’m addressing the nation on the horrific elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

https://t.co/8WI1nWHu6R— President Biden (@POTUS) May 25, 2022Swift is among the high-profile names who have expressed their sorrow and anger over the Uvalde shooting, tweeting overnight: “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.”Swift shared a clip of Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr passionately speaking at an NBA press conference about the Uvalde shooting and gun control in the US, adding: “Steve’s words ring so true and cut so deep.”Filled with rage and grief, and so broken by the murders in Uvalde.