Summary
That’s all for live coverage today. Some links and updates from the day:
- Family members shared more tributes for the 19 students and two adults killed in the massacre.
- Hundreds rallied for gun control outside the NRA’s annual convention in Texas.
- The head of the Texas department of public safety admitted on Friday afternoon that “it was the wrong decision” for armed police to wait for an extended period outside the classroom where the gunman was killing children and teachers, without storming in.
- The maker of the rifle used in the Texas elementary school shooting is facing fresh outrage over an advertisement featuring a young child posted days before the killings.
- The Texas school killings have touched nearly everyone in the small town of Uvalde, from friends and neighbors to shopkeepers and coaches.
- The mother of the 18-year-old gunman who shot dead 19 young children and two teachers and wounded many others in an elementary school in the small town of Uvalde, Texas, this week has said: “Forgive me, forgive my son.”
- Texas governor Greg Abbott, facing mounting questions about why the police’s narrative has changed so dramatically, said he was “misled”.
Charlie Scudder reported for the Guardian from outside the NRA convention today, where politicians spoke alongside those who lost loved ones to gun violence.
Scudder writes that lawmakers promised action on gun control:
US Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, said that Democratic House leadership would consider gun control bills in the coming weeks. “I have no need to challenge your guns. I have no need to challenge the constitution,” she said. “We have heard your voices… I have been in the fight for [too] long.”
Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the county’s primary executive in Houston, called on state legislators to pass similar measures. “We should not make the grandmothers cry,” Hidalgo said. “You did not elect me to offer thoughts and prayers.”
Harris County Judge @LinaHidalgoTX speaks in favor of gun reform at #NRAconvention protest at Discovery Green pic.twitter.com/T7lMzRLxhl
— Ariana Garcia 🇵🇷 (@Ariana_noGrande) May 27, 2022
House Representative Sheila Jackson Lee calls on Donald Trump to cancel his visit and for the NRA to cancel the convention if they care about gun safety, something she's tried to put on the legislative agenda every year.
— steven monacelli (@stevanzetti) May 27, 2022
"Cancel yourself, NRA" she said. pic.twitter.com/Sv13sP64UL
