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House adopts red flag bill to confiscate guns in cases of ‘extreme risk’

WASHINGTON — The House voted Thursday to allow confiscation of guns from individuals deemed an “extreme risk,” the morning after agreeing to ban teens from buying semi-automatic weapons like the one used by the 18-year-old who killed 21 people at a Uvalde elementary school.

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Police fatally shoot person trying to enter Alabama school

Authorities say a person who was trying to get into an Alabama elementary school where a summer program was being held was shot to death by police

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Blaming 'evil' for mass violence isn’t as simple as it seems – a philosopher unpacks the paradox in using the word

The word “evil” circulates widely in the wake of terrible public violence. The May 24, 2022, massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, is a case in point.

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Casualty axes school shooting episode after Texas massacre at elementary

Casualty's school shooting episode has been rescheduled for now by BBC bosses in light of the Texas tragedy at an elementary school, which resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers

Daily Mirror

Editorial: One nation, under the gun: In Washington, a reminder of the stark stakes of firearm madness

The Supreme Court issued only one opinion Wednesday morning. Fortunately for New York, which is bracing for the activist “conservative” majority to shred the state’s protective gun permitting law, it had nothing to do with firearms. Meanwhile, a 10-minute walk away in the Capitol, Republican political allies of those justices…

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The creator of the FBI mass shooting protocol is 'shocked' by Uvalde police response

After Sandy Hook, Katherine Schweit created a program to navigate similar crises. She says the way law enforcement handled the shooting in Uvalde went against everything they trained for.

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Wednesday’s funeral in Uvalde remembers 10-year-old Annabell Rodriguez

Community members in Uvalde, Texas, said goodbye Wednesday to another student killed at Robb Elementary School last month.

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Uvalde survivor tells Congress she covered herself in blood to save her life

An 11-year-old girl who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, recounted in video testimony to Congress on Wednesday how she covered herself with a dead classmate’s blood to avoid being shot and “just stayed quiet.”

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‘I don’t want it to happen again,’ Uvalde student says as gun laws debated in Congress

WASHINGTON — Miah Cerrillo gave lawmakers a horrifying first-hand account of last month's school massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde as she described covering herself in her friend’s blood to play dead while the shooter gunned down her classmates.

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Texas House committee to investigate Uvalde Robb Elementary shooting in hearing

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas House committee on Thursday will hold an investigative hearing to learn more about the mass shooting at an Uvalde elementary school where two teachers and 19 students were killed.

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Matthew McConaughey isn’t the only celebrity speaking out after Uvalde

Actor Matthew McConaughey took to the stage in the White House briefing room Tuesday to implore politicians to enact stricter gun laws after 19 children and two teachers were killed in his hometown of Uvalde during a mass shooting at an elementary school on May 24.

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Did the assault weapons ban of 1994 bring down mass shootings? Here's what the data tells us

A spate of high-profile mass shootings in the U.S. has sparked calls for Congress to look at imposing a ban on so-called assault weapons – covering the types of guns used in both the recent Buffalo grocery attack and that on an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

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Justice Dept. names 9 to aid in review of Uvalde shooting

The Justice Department has named a team of nine people, including an FBI official and former police chiefs, to aid in a review of the law enforcement response to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting

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4th grade Uvalde survivor: 'I don't want it to happen again'

An 11-year-old girl who survived the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas has told members of Congress how she covered herself in her dead classmate’s blood and played dead to avoid being shot

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‘I don’t want it to happen again,’ Uvalde student says as gun laws debated

WASHINGTON — Miah Cerrillo gave lawmakers a horrifying firsthand account of the school massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde as she described covering herself in her friend’s blood to play dead while the shooter gunned down her classmates.

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Uvalde student, other witnesses testify as Congress weighs changes to gun laws

WASHINGTON — Miah Cerrillo gave lawmakers a horrifying first-hand account of the school massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, as she described covering herself in her friend’s blood to play dead while the shooter gunned down her classmates.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Teenagers shouldn’t be able to buy assault weapons

A gunman entered a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, last month and fatally shot 10 people. Just 10 days later, a gunman entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 students and two teachers.

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Actor McConaughey Calls for Gun Legislation at White House

Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey made an appearance at the White House Tuesday to call on Congress to "reach a higher ground” and pass gun control legislation in honor of the children and teachers killed in last month’s shooting rampage at an elementary school in his hometown of Uvalde, Texas.…

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Teacher of 11 Uvalde students who were killed calls police ‘cowards’ for failure to stop school shooting

A teacher who was shot twice during the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, raged against the police from his hospital bed for allowing the gunman to continue his rampage.

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School police chief a no-show at Uvalde City Council meeting

The school district police chief criticized for waiting too long before ordering law enforcement to confront and kill the gunman during a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school did not appear at a Uvalde City Council meeting, despite being newly elected to the panel

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Tuesday’s funeral in Uvalde remembers Xavier James Lopez

Another funeral for a Robb Elementary School student was held Tuesday morning in Uvalde.

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Matthew McConaughey calls for gun responsibility laws in op-ed

In the nearly two weeks since the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a semi-surprising voice has risen to call for something, anything, to be done to curb gun violence, specifically that which targets children — Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey.

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Editorial: A real hope for changing the extremists

The recent mass shootings have terrified the nation. It’s not just the ferocity of the attacks. It’s the randomness of the victims, whether elementary school children or elderly women shopping at the neighborhood supermarket. People doing normal things, the things all of us do, find themselves attacked by a heavily…

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Martin Schram: Can gun owners lead our leaders to safeguard America?

Thursday night at the White House, speaking to America with grim emotion, President Joe Biden used a single statistic to sum up two decades of national pain and revulsion we have all endured. His one statistic also seemed to sum up the horror of our last two weeks of mass-killings…

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Sunday’s funeral in Uvalde remembers Alithia Ramirez, 10

A 10-year-old girl who dreamed of being an artist before she was killed at Robb Elementary School was remembered at a funeral service Sunday.

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