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The latest U.S. mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school creates a new point of political pressure on a U.S. Supreme Court that has signaled it will soon limit state and local governments’ ability to enact gun control measures.

Entertainment events — including the airing of TV shows — have been postponed or canceled out of respect for the victims of Tuesday’s school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where a teenage gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School and killed 19 children and two adults in a single classroom.

As gunman Salvador Ramos took the children at the Robb Elementary School in Ulvadle hostage, one heroic 10-year-old bravely tried to save her classmates as she tried calling 911 for help

Democratic gubernatorial candidate confronts Republican Greg Abbott during press conference, saying: ‘You are doing nothing’

Salvador Ramos told woman ‘I’m about to’ as he hinted at attack just hours earlier

Beto O’Rourke interrupted a press conference Wednesday about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, calling the shooting “totally predictable when you choose not to do anything.”

"Try to take our guns and you'll learn why the Second Amendment was written in the first place"

Texas has some of the loosest gun laws in the United States. Governor Greg Abbott last year signed into law several pieces of legislation to further ease restrictions, including making it easier to carry a handgun in public.

Senate Republicans are floating the idea of more federal grant funding for school safety measures after a mass shooting in Texas.