Pulse Survivor ‘At a Loss’ Over Texa Elementary School Massacre

thegavoice.com:

A survivor of the Pulse nightclub massacre on Wednesday said he is “at a loss” over the massacre at a Texas elementary school that left 21 people dead. “Twenty-one people were murdered,” said Equality Florida Press Secretary Brandon Wolf in a statement he sent to the Washington Blade a day after a gunman killed 21 people inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “Nineteen of them were children — babies.

That means 19 families sent their elementary age kids off to school only to get the worst news: That their babies would be leaving class in body bags.” Wolf was inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016, when a gunman opened fire and killed 49 people.

His two close friends — Christopher “Drew” Leinonen and his fiancé, Juan Guerrero — were among those killed. Wolf in his statement noted “right wing politicians have spent the past year insisting that the greatest threats our children face are the potential they’ll learn that this nation was built on the backs of enslaved Black people or that their teacher uses they/them pronouns.” “They’ve banned books, censored curriculum and bastardized history lessons,” said Wolf. “All the while, they haven’t lifted a finger to protect kids from what is killing them.” Equality Florida echoed Wolf’s sentiments. “I am heartbroken for the shattered families,” added Wolf. “Grief-stricken for these stolen lives.

And enraged at the power-hungry leaders who have chosen time and again to serve up this country’s most vulnerable as sacrifices in exchange for a boost up the ladder of their own ambitions.” Axel Rodríguez’s friend, Xavier Serrano Rosado, died inside the Pulse nightclub.