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O'Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor's race

Democrat Beto O'Rourke briefly seized the presidential race spotlight in 2019 when he declared after a mass shooting his hometown of El Paso, Texas, that “Hell yes, we're gonna take your AR-15.”

The Independent UK

Ten-year-old arrested for threatening school shooting in Florida

‘Right now is not the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not funny,’ sheriff says

The Independent UK

Gov. Abbott booed in Uvalde

Abbott, who arrived to meet with Biden, faced jeers and heckling from the crowd

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Biden responds to protesters pressing him to ‘do something’ on Uvalde school visit: ‘We will’

Over the weekend, bipartisan group of senators in Congress discussed ways to reach compromise on gun safety legislation

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

The Independent UK

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is booed as he visits Uvalde school: ‘Shame on you’

‘Our children are under constant attack in this community. We need help’

The Independent UK

Days after the Uvalde shooting, the NRA convention went on as planned

Thousands gathered inside of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston for the NRA convention while swaths of others convened outside in protest, advocating for gun control legislation.

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‘Do something!’: Biden visits Uvalde after mass shooting as onlookers urge him to take action

President and first lady visit seek to comfort community as DoJ launches investigation into police response to school shooting

The Guardian - US

Anonymous donor covers all the funeral expenses for the Uvalde shooting victims

The anonymous donor contributed $175,000 to go towards the funeral costs of the 21 victims

The Independent UK

Inside the minds of Americans who do not think guns are a problem

Republicans in Texas double down on their pro-gun stance after the latest in a string of mass shootings in the state.

Al Jazeera

Critical mistakes made by police at heart of Texas school shooting investigation

Texas Department of Public Safety will further analyse the police’s response to the shooting.

The Independent UK

Making sense of a mass shooting in the middle of Texas gun country

UVALDE, Texas — Randall Methvin is a thoughtful man who talks with a Texas twang, still works as a ranch hand at age 68 and has felt an affinity for firearms since childhood, when his Depression-hardened father would take him out quail and dove hunting.

Los Angeles Times

Texas state senator says ‘we’re all angry’ over Uvalde police response and expects full report

‘How an 18-year-old can access militarized weaponry anywhere is beyond me’

The Independent UK

Challenge for archbishop: Finding words to heal an inconsolable Uvalde

UVALDE, Texas – In this small city of inconsolable souls, Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller called children to the altar as he recited the names of each victim in an elementary school shooting.

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Texas Observer

Hey Hey, NRA, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?

Hundreds of anti-gun violence protestors took over Discovery Green Park.

Evening Standard

Donald Trump says US should have safe schools before sending aid to Ukraine

Donald Trump has said the US should prioritise funding for school security over sending money to Ukraine.

The Independent UK

Police inaction moves to center of Uvalde shooting probe

The actions of a school district police chief and other law enforcement officers moved swiftly to the center of the investigation into this week’s shocking school shooting in Uvalde, Texas

Salon

So where were the "good guys with guns"?

Whatever excuse NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre comes up with now, it can't erase the shocking charade we saw in Uvalde

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Salon

TX slashed mental health money, gun laws

The Lone Star State has declared itself a "Second Amendment sanctuary"

The Independent UK

Texas shooting: Gunman’s mother says he ‘had his reasons for what he did’ and begs victims for forgiveness

‘I have no words to say. I don’t know what he was thinking,’ Adriana Martinez Reyes says after US school massacre

Wales Online

Texas Governor claims he was ‘misled’ about response to school shooting

Meanwhile, protesters rallied at the annual National Rifle Association convention

Tribune News Service

In speech to NRA, Trump calls Texas school shooting 'savage and barbaric,' reads name of each victim

HOUSTON — Former President Donald Trump read the name of each of the Uvalde school shooting victims at the start of a speech Friday at the NRA annual convention in Houston and called the shooting a “savage and barbaric atrocity that shocks the conscience of every single American.”

Los Angeles Times

As police waited, children inside Texas school called 911 begging for help

UVALDE, Texas — Children inside a Texas elementary school frantically called 911, begging for the police to save them, as a tactical decision by a commander kept 19 officers from storming a classroom in what a law enforcement official acknowledged on Friday was a mistake in judgment.

The Independent UK

Six major police mistakes in the Uvalde shooting have Texans ‘livid’

Police failed at key moments during shooting

ABC News

What we do — and don't — know about how Robb Elementary School mass shooting unfolded in Uvalde, Texas

It took police more than 45 minutes to intervene in the school shooting that claimed 21 lives. Now the community is demanding answers.

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