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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.

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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…

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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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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

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

Daily Mirror

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.

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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

The Independent UK

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

The Independent UK

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.

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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.

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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?”

Sports Illustrated

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.

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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.

The Independent UK

Republicans begin backpedaling on gun control after Uvalde school shooting massacre

Republicans have begun to pivot to mental health on both the national and state level after the shooting in Texas

The Independent UK

Border agent who stormed Robb Elementary with borrowed shotgun defends police actions

The Uvalde Police Department has been criticised for not immediately rushing into the school to stop the shooter

France 24

Uvalde school shooting: Debunking claims that CNN and NBC aired staged interviews

Some users are claiming that US channels CNN & NBC News presented two different men as the father of the same Uvalde school shooting victim. We show you why this claim is bogus. Meanwhile in other news, some users mistakenly believe that the colours of the Ukrainian flag have been…

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Andy Murray Recalls Childhood School Shooting in Wake of Uvalde

The 35-year-old tennis player was present at the 1996 Dunblane school shooting in Scotland that left 16 children and a teacher dead.

The Independent UK

Border agent at Uvalde shooting describes scene as ‘complete chaos’

The agent borrowed his barber’s shotgun and ran to the school on foot

Daily Mirror

Sons carry coffins of mum killed in Uvalde massacre and dad who died two days later

Heroic Irma, 48, died trying to save her fourth grade pupils at Robb Elementary School in the Texas town last week before her school sweetheart Joe - full name Jose Antonio - had a fatal heart attack two days later

Salon

Gun stocks soar as GOP blocks bills

Firearm stocks used to fall after mass shootings. That's no longer the case as GOP reliably blocks all gun bills

The Independent UK

Students and staff will not return to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde after massacre

The school district is likely to receive federal support in the wake of the massacre, joining several other American schools to demolish and rebuild after mass shootings

Salon

Why women are Ulvade's new scapegoat

Reminder: Most mass shooters are male and it was a mostly male police force who failed to save the victims

The Independent UK

10-year-old survivor reveals last words of friend shot dead by Uvalde gunman

Student had phoned 911 before getting killed

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