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Texas House committee debates firearms bills filed in response to Uvalde shooting

The House Select Committee on Community Safety is scheduled to hear testimony on bills that would change how people buy firearms and how authorities report those purchases. One of these bills would raise the minimum age to 21 years old to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles.

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After years of little progress, Texas gun control and safety advocates see some small openings for dialogue at the Capitol

Many bills that would limit access to firearms or ammunition likely won’t become law anytime soon. But people who advocate at the Texas Capitol see emerging signs that there’s appetite for finding some middle ground.

The Texas Tribune

Bodycam reveals police forcibly removing mom of Uvalde victim from son’s school

The Texas department of public safety had opened an investigation into the incident

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‘It feels like it happens every week’: Nashville grapples with gun debate after school shooting massacre

Less than a year after 19 children and two teachers were killed by a teenage gunman in Uvalde, Texas, a 28-year-old shooter killed three children and three adults more than 1,000 miles away in Tennessee. Nashville has been added to the list of tragic school shooting sites, as the famed…

The Independent UK

Three children and three staff shot dead by former student: What we know about Nashville school shooting

The shooting came as the US is recovering from several recent gun violence incidents at schools, including the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas last year

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Three children and three staff shot dead by former student: What we know about Nashville school shooting

The shooting comes as the US is recovering from several recent gun violence incidents at schools, including the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas last year

The Independent UK

Nashville shooting timeline: What we know so far

Police response times to school shootings have come under greater scrutiny in the 10 months since the deadly event in Uvalde, Texas

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Three children and three staff shot dead by former student: What we know about Nashville school shooting

The shooting comes as the US is recovering from several recent gun violence incidents at schools, including the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas last year

The Independent UK

Two dead after panicked police call from migrants 'suffocating' inside shipping container

Police in Uvalde, Texas, were alerted to a distressing call on Friday afternoon after migrants desperately tried to seek help whilst stuck in a train travelling near the US-Mexico border

Daily Mirror

Texas police: Migrants found 'suffocating' in train; 2 dead

Police in South Texas say that two migrants have been found dead and at least 10 have been hospitalized after authorities received a call that they were “suffocating” in a freight train car traveling near the U.S.-Mexico border

The Independent UK

Two dead, several injured after migrants were found “suffocating” inside locked train car

Uvalde officials said U.S. Border Patrol responded to a 911 call alerting them about a group of people who were trapped for hours inside of a shipping container.

The Texas Tribune

TribCast: Police officers’ fear of the AR-15 in Robb Elementary

In this week’s episode, we discuss the weapon used by the school shooter in Uvalde and new details that highlight how fear of the gun contributed to the botched police response.

The Texas Tribune

Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15

Police told investigators they were cowed by the shooter’s military-style rifle

Salon

Police waited an hour in Uvalde because they feared gunman’s AR-15, investigation finds

State officials called police repsonse ‘abject failure’

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“He has a battle rifle”: Police feared Uvalde gunman’s AR-15

In previously unreleased interviews, police who responded to the Robb Elementary shooting told investigators they were cowed by the shooter’s military-style rifle. This drove their decision to wait for a Border Patrol SWAT team to engage him, which took more than an hour.

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde families ask to join suit pushing for DPS to release public records

The lawyers for some of the Uvalde families say there is “a compelling need” for records into the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary to be publicly released.

The Texas Tribune

SXSW EDU panelists say the only solution to school safety is to address gun policy and mental health, not one or the other

Gun policy reform is the best way to address school safety, according to experts on a panel in Austin. They also cautioned against doubling down on surveillance technology.

The Texas Tribune

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan’s new priority bills focus on school safety, requiring districts to adopt active-shooter plans

More than nine months after the Uvalde school shooting, top GOP lawmakers maintain focus on school safety reforms and investments in mental health resources in hopes it will prevent future tragedies.

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Historical amnesia and the end of days

Apocalypse is no longer a dark fantasy — it's the new normal. It's time to reassert human agency and fight back

The Independent UK

Texas congressman's breaks with GOP could lead to censure

Republican U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas is facing a rare potential censure back home over votes that included supporting new gun safety laws after the Uvalde school shooting that was in his district

The Independent UK

Families of Uvalde victims confront Texas' police chief

Family members of victims killed in the Uvalde school shooting have confronted Texas’ police chief in an emotional end to a day of protests at the state Capitol over gun laws

The Texas Tribune

Texas superintendent resigns after student finds his gun in school bathroom

The incident comes as lawmakers debate how to make schools safer after the Uvalde massacre and favor measures like arming more educators.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: How repeat exposure to shootings like Michigan State’s traumatizes young people — and what we can do about it

Yet again this week we are grappling with the news of another mass shooting on school grounds, this time at Michigan State University. Last Monday’s shooting took place on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the attack that killed 17 students and staffers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School…

The Independent UK

El Paso mass shooting: Everything we know about the massacre at Cielo Vista Mall

The Cielo Vista Mall is directly adjacent to the Walmart store where 23 people were killed in a racially-motivated mass shooting back in August 2019

The Texas Tribune

Uvalde’s state lawmakers face an uphill battle raising the age limit for semi-automatic guns. They’re trying anyway.

Many relatives of Uvalde victims back bills that state Rep. Tracy King and Sen. Roland Gutierrez are pushing in the Legislature. But limits on gun access don’t fare well at the Capitol.

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