Business Analyst - May 26

Thursday, May 26, 2022
Gunman posted just before
deadly US school attack
Biden: 'It's time for action'
The people of Uvalde need the
support of every American,
Biden says, declaring: “As a
nation I think we all must be
there for them, every one.
“And we must ask when in God’s name
will we do what needs to be done to, if not
completely stop, fundamentally change the
amount of carnage that goes on in this
country.
“To state the obvious, I’m sick and tired,
I’m just sick and tired of what’s going on
and what continues to go on.”
Before moving on to the subject of
policing, Biden says: "It's time for action."
gun lobby."
Biden to deliver remarks on
'public trust and safety'
President Joe Biden and Vice-President
Kamala harris are due to deliver remarks in
the next few minutes on the topic of "public
trust and safety" at the White house.
he is signing an executive order on
police reform, an event that was scheduled
before the Uvalde massacre.
According to a senior official, Biden will
address the Uvalde shooting at the
beginning of his remarks.
he also spoke on Tuesday about the
tragedy, just after returning from a trip to
Asia.
Biden: Guns laws in Texas
'just wrong'
"Since I spoke last night, the confirmed
death toll has tragically climbed," Biden
begins his remarks.
he says he and his wife, Jill Biden, will
travel to Uvalde in the coming days to meet
families "and get a sense of their pain, and
hopefully bring some little comfort to the
community in shock, grief and trauma".
he adds that all Americans must stand
together to be there for the Uvalde
community in their suffering.
Biden goes on to say that the idea that a
teenager is able to legally purchase weapons
that are "designed and marketed to kill, is
just wrong".
Vice-President harris:
'enough is enough'
Vice-President Kamala harris began her
remarks at the White house by paying
condolences to families who said goodbye to
their loved ones for the last time on Tuesday
morning.
"enough is enough," she says.
"As the president said last night we
must have the courage to stand up to the
Meta comments on gunman's
Facebook posts
As we reported earlier, the Texas
governor said earlier on Wednesday that the
attacker had posted three times to Facebook
before the attack.
Governor Greg Abbott said the killer
wrote that he was planning to shoot his
grandmother, then to say he had done it,
and then again to say he would attack an
elementary school - about 15 minutes before
it unfolded.
Meta, Facebook's parent company, has
released a statement clarifying the
gunman's post was not public.
"The messages Gov Abbott described
were private one-to-one text messages that
were discovered after the terrible tragedy
occurred," the California-based company
said in a statement.
Meta added that it was "closely cooperating"
with investigators.
Teachers broke windows to evacuate
children - Texas official
Olivarez describes the scene when law
enforcement officers arrived at the school Lt
Christopher Olivarez from the Texas
Department of Public Safety describes the
scene police faced when they arrived at
Robb elementary School.
he tells CBS news that teachers
evacuated children through broken
windows while the gunman was barricaded
inside the building.
Don't expect meaningful change to
US gun laws
This tragedy has reignited the debate
over gun control in the US. But realistically,
it is unlikely to result in significant reform.
The argument over guns has simply become
too politically divisive and culturally
entrenched to allow for meaningful change.
It is important to remember that guns
are normal in many parts of America. They
are not seen as exceptional or frightening as
they may look to outsiders. They are a part of
everyday life.
American gun owners - and there are an
estimated 80 million of them - see their
weapons as protection: a way to defend
their own freedoms and property. In a
country where there is a real prospect of an
armed criminal entering your home or
assaulting you on the street it is considered
by many to be a sensible precaution.
Guns are so ubiquitous in America no
one will be able to get them out of the hands
of felons. And so the argument goes: the
good guys should have them too.
School cancelled in rest of district
There were only two days left of the
school year for the Uvalde area, but those
have both been cancelled for pupils.
Staff are to report to their campuses, and
school counsellors will be available at all
campuses to provide counselling support, a
post on the Uvalde Consolidated
Independent School District Facebook page
said.
It said graduation ceremonies -
scheduled for Friday according to the
district's calendar - would be "addressed at a
later time".
"This is a tragic time in our district, we
Tanzania leader: I’ve outperformed male presidents
TAnzAnIA’S President
Samia Suluhu says she has
in some circumstances
handled the country’s top
office better than other male
presidents before her.
The Tanzanian president
said she faced challenges of
mistrust during her first
days in office because she is
a woman – which she had to
overcome.
Ms Samia was speaking
at a forum in the Ghanaian
capital Accra – her first
official trip to West Africa
since she was sworn in as
president following the
death of her predecessor
John Magufuli in March
2021.
“It was very difficult to
make people of Tanzania
trust me. That I can run the
country in the same way
men do - that was the major
challenge,” she said during a
session organised as part of
the annual African
Development Bank (AfDB)
meeting.
“In the course of one
year I have shown women’s
power, I led the country the
same way men did and in
some circumstances better
than they did,” she added.
Ms Samia is Africa's only
current female national
leader - the ethiopian
presidency is a largely
ceremonial role.
The Tanzanian leader
told the AfDB forum that the
country's economic growth
had dropped from 6.4% to
4% amid the Covid
pandemic – but under her
leadership it rose to 5.2%
and was forecast to reach
6.7% by 2025.
The forum in Accra was
also attended by Ghana
President nana Akufo-Addo,
Mozambican President
Filipe nyusi and Comoros'
President Azali Assoumani.
Ms Samia will on
Wednesday be awarded a
trophy after being named
the 2022 winner of the Africa
Road Builders–Babacar
ndiaye Trophy last month.