As questions persist over what could have been done to prevent the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and two teachers were killed on Tuesday, it has emerged that the school district responsible for the institution had more than doubled its security budget in recent years to prevent just such an atrocity happening.
According to its own budget records, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had upped its investment from $200,000 (£158,666) in 2017 to $435,000 (£345,100) in the present academic year to comply with state legislation introduced in 2019 in the wake of another school massacre in Santa Fe in which eight students and two teachers were murdered.
