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Texas governor issues disaster declaration in Uvalde to expedite aide to community

FORT WORTH, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster in the southwest Texas city of Uvalde after a gunman entered an elementary school there and killed 19 children and two teachers, according to a news release from the governor’s office.

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Texas school shooting victims' funerals begin as Joe Biden and Jacinda Ardern talk gun control

As the family of Amerie Jo Garza lays the 10-year-old Robb Elementary School student to rest, the focus turns to gun control, with US President Joe Biden meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to discuss her 2019 ban on military-style weapons.

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What happens to the school building in Uvalde, Texas?

Public officials and residents of Uvalde, Texas, will have to grapple with a difficult question as the community continues recovering from last week’s shooting at Robb Elementary School: What should be done with the building where 19 children and two teachers were massacred?

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Biden pledges gun meeting with Congress, eyeing executive actions

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden vowed Tuesday to meet with lawmakers about gun control legislation, while aides said the administration is currently researching additional executive actions he might take in the aftermath of last week’s deadly massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

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Firearm stocks spike after mass shootings as investors dismiss the chance of tightening gun laws

The day after an armed 18-year-old entered the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and shot dead 19 children and two teachers, the share prices of gun and weapons manufacturers jumped.

The Conversation

Grieving Texas town starts to lay to rest mass shooting victims

The grieving Texas town of Uvalde has begun to lay to rest the 21 children and teachers who were killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school a week ago.

Evening Standard

Uvalde grieves, says goodbyes at visitations, funerals for victims of school shooting

Over the next two-and-a-half traumatic weeks, people in the southwestern Texas town will say goodbye to the children and their teachers, one heart-wrenching visitation, funeral and burial after another.

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A Uvalde coroner is haunted by identifying the bodies of children and an old friend

Because Uvalde is so small, a local Justice of the Peace had the horrible task of identifying slain kids after the deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School. He says the images will stick with him.

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Exclusive: One week after his daughter was killed in Uvalde, how a father is channelling his grief

The father of Uvalde victim Annabell Rodriguez, 10, is channeling his grief into anger about assault weapon sales and the disastrous police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School, he tells Sheila Flynn

The Independent UK

The lasting consequences of school shootings on the students who survive them

As the U.S. reels from another school shooting, much of the public discussion has centered on the lives lost: 19 children and two adults. Indeed, the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas is the second deadliest such incident on record, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School…

The Conversation

Uvalde grieves, says goodbyes at visitations, funerals

It should have been the first day of a joyous week for Robb Elementary School students — the start of summer break

The Independent UK

‘Angry’ Murray Likens Texas School Shooting Survivor’s Experience to His Own

Britain's two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray said the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas made him "angry", adding that a survivor's account of the incident was similar to his own experience in the 1996 Dunblane massacre in Scotland. An 18-year-old gunman armed with a semi-automatic rifle stormed an elementary school in…

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Cynthia M. Allen: Yes, we must address guns. But that’s far from the only solution after Uvalde shooting

In the aftermath of a tragedy like the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, when emotions and egos are running high, few of us have much wisdom to offer.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Why our response to school shootings is all wrong

“He shot and killed horrifically, incomprehensibly,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said, describing the actions of the 18-year-old gunman allegedly responsible for killing 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last Tuesday.

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Video showing how to block classroom door with elementary school chair goes viral in wake of Uvalde shooting

‘Sad reality is tactical solutions like this one are a necessity until our lawmakers change gun control laws’

The Independent UK

Salvador Ramos: Everything we know about Texas school mass shooter

Eighteen-year-old Uvalde high school student shot his grandmother before driving to Robb Elementary School where he killed 21 people

Tribune News Service

How Uvalde will lay its fallen children, teachers to rest

From the empty swing set outside Robb Elementary School — where last week 19 children and two teachers were killed in the deadliest school shooting in Texas history — is a clear view of the Hillcrest Memorial Funeral Home.

The Independent UK

'Very angry': Uvalde locals grapple with school chief's role

The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas elementary school _ even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside _ has been placed with the school district’s homegrown police chief

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Uvalde, Texas is in shock after the Robb Elementary School shooting. Nearby town Sutherland Springs is still grieving

As the small Texan town of Uvalde grieves the 19 children and two teachers slain in the Robb Elementary school shooting, visitors have flooded in to pay their respects. Columbine survivors Michele Williams and Lauren Bohn are among those who understand just how long healing will take.

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Wakes begin for Texas shooting victims: a hero 4th-grader and an aspiring marine biologist

The first wakes for the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting were held on Monday, as families began the excruciating task of laying their little loved ones to rest.

The Independent UK

Uvalde: Visitations, funerals and burials, one after another

It should have been the first day of a joyous week for Robb Elementary School students — the start of summer break

Tribune News Service

Lawsuits against police over Texas school shooting would be challenging, legal experts say

The feeling of helplessness that parents of Robb Elementary School students had as they waited outside the Texas school as last week’s massacre unfolded may hit them again as they start to weigh their legal options.

The Independent UK

A Michigan mother and children, a Memorial Day festival and a house party: 79 Americans in mass shootings in 6 days since Uvalde

Since 19 students and two teachers were shot dead in Robb Elementary School, 79 people have been killed or injured in 16 more mass shootings in America, reports Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK

Texas school shooting: Who are Daniel Defense, the makers of Salvador Ramos’ AR-15?

Firearms manufacturer whose AR-15 semi-automatic rifle was reportedly used in Robb Elementary School massacre pledges to co-operate with law enforcement investigations into atrocity

The Independent UK

‘Assault rifles shouldn’t be sold, period’: Grieving father of Uvalde victim makes passionate plea for AR-15 ban to The Independent

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