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Great-grandfather of Uvalde shooting victim challenges police in dramatic video: ‘Where were you people’

Mr Mata began waving a knife around at one point before handing it off to a bystander

The Independent UK

Greg Abbott: Bad Governor, Bad Lawyer

The Uvalde shooting shows how little of his legal training he remembers.

Texas Observer

DIARY: One mother of many, watching the news and worrying

Since last week’s shooting in Uvalde, Texas, one Associated Press writer has, like so many parents, struggled to escape the thought of someone barging into her son’s classroom with a gun

The Independent UK

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‘How much more carnage are we willing to accept?’ Biden pleads for gun control in primetime speech – as it happened

Biden has called for the age requirements to be raised and for the gun lobby to be reeled in

The Guardian - US

Reasons why NRA is so successful at preventing gun reform in the US

National Rifle Association promised to 'reflect on' the Uvalde tragedy at its national conference

Wales Online

5 ways to reduce school shootings

After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, psychology professor Paul Boxer and his colleagues reviewed research to see what could be learned from what they refer to as the “science of violence prevention.” In the wake of the May 24, 2022, massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde,…

The Conversation

Mass shootings in the US: The impossible reform of gun legislation

The US town of Uvalde, Texas began to bury its dead this week after the country's worst school shooting in a decade. Nineteen students and two teachers were shot dead by an 18-year-old gunman. When President Joe Biden went to console grieving families, he was greeted with protesters shouting "Do…

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When the minority rules, children die

Our democracy is hopelessly paralyzed. We see the consequences in Uvalde and Buffalo. So what do we do about it?

Salon

At least 4 killed in Tulsa shooting

The incident is the 20th U.S. mass shooting since the 5/24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas

Salon

Editorial: Florida reacted to school shootings. The US can, too

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators met Tuesday on Zoom to continue exploring a compromise on gun safety legislation, just as more families in Uvalde, Texas, held funerals for some of 19 children and two teachers slaughtered there at an elementary school last week. We’re not naive enough to think…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Gun violence is a solvable public health crisis

As the murdered children of Uvalde are laid to rest this week, our nation needs to muster the courage and political will to treat rising gun violence and mass shootings as an acute public health crisis.

Tribune News Service

Gustavo Arellano: The tragedy of Uvalde and the right’s cynical reading comprehension problem

Racist. Bigot. Idiot. Hater.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Red-flag laws can make a difference

The slaughter at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has stunned a country tragically accustomed to mass shootings. Coming just days after the atrocity at Buffalo, New York, this latest outrage has strengthened calls for tighter gun laws. This time, perhaps, something might actually be done.

Tribune News Service

Robin Abcarian: Good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns? Tell that to the grieving families in Uvalde

Can we finally put to rest the dangerously wrong aphorism that "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"?

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Gunman Kills Four at Tulsa Hospital in New US Mass Shooting

A gunman killed at least four people Wednesday at a hospital building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said -- the latest mass shooting to convulse the United States as Texas families bury their dead after a school massacre nearly 10 days earlier. The suspect, who was armed with a rifle and…

Daily Mirror

Ten-year-old cousins laid side-by-side at joint wake after being shot dead at school

Jailah Silguero and her cousin Jayce Luevanos, both victims of the Texas elementary school shooting, had a joint wake in Uvalde with the funeral home decorated in their favourite themes

Tribune News Service

Gov. Greg Abbott calls for legislative committees — but not a special session — following Uvalde school shooting

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for special legislative committees to examine what legislation and action might be taken to prevent future school shootings.

The Independent UK

New York Times reporter sparks debate by saying friends wish to raise children outside of US after Texas shooting

New York Times reporter sparks a debate after tweeting that ‘everyone she knows’ wishes to raise children outside of the US

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Chicago Sun-Times

Politicians should resist rush to ‘do anything’ in response to school shootings

That impulse is understandable, but it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.

The Independent UK

Texas attack shows role of doors in school security plans

Doors have been at the center of the investigation into the massacre of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas

Tribune News Service

5 years. 5 mass shootings. 87 dead in Texas. What gun laws could have applied in each case?

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has experienced multiple mass shootings in recent years.

Tribune News Service

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants random school safety checks after Texas shooting

DALLAS — Gov. Greg Abbott wants state officials to randomly inspect schools to test safety protocols after a gunman burst into an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers.

Sports Illustrated

Kerr Calls to ‘Pressure’ Decision Makers in Wake of Uvalde Shooting

The Warriors coach: “Murdering children in their classrooms has become a political issue. What are we doing?”

WEKU

Mourners say goodbye to a Uvalde teacher and her husband

Mourners gathered Wednesday at a funeral for teacher Irma Garcia — who died in the shooting at Robb Elementary School — and her husband, Joe — who died two days later from a heart attack.

Tribune News Service

State representative advocates for Uvalde victim’s dad to leave Kentucky prison to attend daughter’s funeral

FORT WORTH, Texas — A state representative is advocating for the father of a Uvalde, Texas, school shooting victim to be able to attend his daughter’s funeral after a report that he was denied compassionate release from a Kentucky prison.

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