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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ed Pilkington and Kari Paul

‘When will this end?’: rage over US gun violence after second mass shooting in 10 days

‘This happens nowhere else but here in the United States of America,’ Senator Chris Murphy said.
‘This happens nowhere else but here in the United States of America,’ Senator Chris Murphy said. Photograph: Marco Bello/Reuters

The second US mass shooting in 10 days, which left 18 young children and three adults dead at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, led to an outpouring of disbelief and potent rage at America’s persistent failure to tackle its epidemic of gun violence.

Tuesday’s horrifying attack in Uvalde, a small, largely Hispanic community outside San Antonio, came just 10 days after the events in Buffalo, New York. There 10 grocery shoppers, most of them African American, were gunned down in a supermarket.

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