Rebecca Judd weighs in on gun control in the US after horrific school shooting left 19 children and two teachers dead
Rebecca Judd has weighed in on gun control in the US after the nation was rocked by a mass shooting.
Nineteen children and two teachers are dead after a teenage gunman opened fire at a primary school in Ulvade, Texas, on Tuesday.
The 39-year-old AFL WAG shared a post to Instagram, urging gun control laws to be changed following the tragedy.
Weighing in: Rebecca Judd (pictured) has weighed in on gun control in the US after horrific school shooting left 19 children and two teachers dead
‘Let’s take a moment to honour the sacrifice of our brace school children who lay down their lives to protect our right to bear arms,’ the post read.
‘This,’ Bec simply captioned the image.
The mother-of-four also shared a video of the children’s family members crying at the scene and added a broken heart emoji.
Post: The 39-year-old AFL WAG shared a post to Instagram, urging gun control laws to be changed following the tragedy
Nineteen pupils aged between seven and 11 years old have been shot dead along with two of their teachers by an 18-year-old gunman who has also been killed in the school mass shooting.
Salvador Ramos, 18, shot his grandmother then went to Robb Elementary school to carry out the mass murder before he was shot dead on the campus by a heroic Border Patrol agent.
Many Australians have now called on America to adopt gun control laws like those implemented Down Under.
‘I did not expect to have a conversation with my kids this morning about whether it’s morally worse to kill 35 adults or 14 children but here we are,’ Malaysian-Australian television presenter Adam Liaw tweeted.
‘But at least I could say that after Port Arthur Australia did something about it.’
Tragic: Nineteen pupils aged between seven and 11 years old have been shot dead along with two of their teachers by an 18-year-old gunman who has also been killed in the school mass shooting
Another man said: ‘The Australian government responded [to Port Arthur] with a massive, mandatory gun buy-back, and restricted future gun purchases. And it never happened again. This is preventable.’
‘It’s totally f***ing crazy America still doesn’t have gun control and has a completely lax attitude to guns,’ someone else wrote.
‘Guns are a problem and they’re in denial. Here we are in Australia with no mass shootings since gun control in 1996.’
Prime minister John Howard ushered in gun restrictions following the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania, 26 years ago.
In April 1996, Martin Bryant went on a shooting spree at the historic site – killing 35 people and injuring 23 others, prompting Mr Howard to tighten laws, confiscating more than 650,000 weapons in the world’s largest mandatory gun buy-back scheme.
Horrified parents and students gathered after the shooting at the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center
Salvador Ramos, 18, from Uvalde, Texas, drove to the Robb Elementary School after shooting his grandmother
