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School shootings have increased recently; the violence in Texas is among the deadliest

School shootings have been on the rise recently, but the scale of carnage Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, is by far the worst since the 2018 attack at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Los Angeles Times · May 24, 2022

After mass shootings in 2018 and 2019, Texas lawmakers made it easier to get guns

FORT WORTH, Texas — More than a dozen students and a teacher are dead after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school.

Tribune News Service · May 24, 2022

Texas attorney general calls for teachers to be armed after massacre in Uvalde

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton repeated his call to arm teachers after a shooter killed more than a dozen children and one teacher at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

The Independent UK · May 24, 2022

Texas school shooting precedes Senate hearing on pick to run ATF

WASHINGTON — Steven Dettelbach starts the most public part of his effort to become only the second person to successfully run the Senate confirmation gantlet to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in a political high-wire act at a hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Tribune News Service · May 24, 2022

Biden to address nation following Texas school shooting

President Joe Biden was set to address the nation Tuesday night shortly after returning to the White House from a five-day trip to Asia that was bookended by “horrific” mass tragedy

The Independent UK · May 24, 2022

"What are we doing?": Senator Chris Murphy slams colleagues after Texas shooting

A gunman shot and killed 14 kids and one teacher at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.

Axios · May 24, 2022

US school shooting leaves 14 children dead - what we know so far

The shooter - named as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos - is also dead

Liverpool Echo · May 24, 2022

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s old pro-gun tweet resurfaces after deadly school shooting

Within minutes of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announcing 14 students and a teacher had been killed earlier Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, an old Abbott tweet calling for Texans to buy more guns resurfaced on Twitter.

Tribune News Service · May 24, 2022

21 dead in Texas: "They failed our kids"

Texas community suffers worst school shooting since Sandy Hook: GOP offers prayers; activists demand gun reform

Salon · May 24, 2022

Ted Cruz condemned for ‘prayer’ tweet after Texas elementary school shooting massacre

Comes after a mass shooting in Uvalde left at least 19 children dead

The Independent UK · May 24, 2022