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After mass shooting, the small Texas town of Uvalde gathers to mourn and remember

In a uniquely American scene of mourning, community members in a small Texan town where 19 elementary school children were fatally shot in their classroom gathered the following night in a bull-riding ring beneath the Texan and American flags to put their faith in Jesus — and one another.

Los Angeles Times

Texas school shooting: Anderson Cooper consoles heartbroken dad who learned of daughter’s death from her best friend

Angel Garza, a trained medic aide, learned of his daughter’s death while trying to help her best friend who was covered in his 10-year-old’s blood

The Independent UK

‘Go in there! Go in there!’: Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school during shooting

Upset that police were not moving in, one parent who rushed to the scene raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders. “Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to,” he said.

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Texas officials deflect questions on ‘missing hour’ when gunman was in school – as it happened

Texas department of public safety briefing creates more questions about hour gunman was in school but not confronted by officers

The Guardian - US

US school shooting experts compare Salvador Ramos to profiles of other killers

Criminologists have explained what we know about gunmen who carry out school shootings.

Daily Record

Ted Cruz blames unlocked doors and not guns for Uvalde school massacre

US senator refused to blame gun laws and instead called for increased security at schools

Wales Online

Editorial: Burden of proof is on gun law resistance

To put yourself in the proper frame of mind to weigh what we ask you to consider today, imagine that you were one of the parents waiting into the night Tuesday outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, knowing what had happened inside hours before — to put it bluntly,…

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Commentary: Why The Onion’s take on the Uvalde shooting captures every parent’s worst nightmare

It’s the yellow caution tape that gets to me when I look at the pictures tweeted by the satirical website The Onion in the wake of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, yesterday. Emblazoned with the words “Sheriff’s Line Do Not Cross,” the yellow tape is draped…

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: National suicide plays out one murderous mass shooting at a time

Perhaps this is how it all ends — self-government, self-defense, self-control, liberty, unity, family. Perhaps the fate of the nation is to watch its soul die along with the at least 19 students and two adults shot to death Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. This is us,…

Los Angeles Times

Daughter of teacher killed in Texas school shooting pens heartbreaking tribute

Eva Mireles was one of the two teachers killed at Robb Elementary school in the south-western Texas on Tuesday.

The National (Scotland)

Mark Z. Barabak: Texas school shooting was 'incomprehensible'? No, it's just another day in America

Just another day in America.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Shootings show that an armed society is nothing more than a fearful society

For decades, lies about gun violence have sustained policies that get many people killed. Tops Fresh Market in Buffalo, New York, and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, now enter America’s list of mass shootings. It is a list of intense sorrow and shame. And it is a list we…

Chicago Tribune

Girl, 10, killed in Texas school shooting begged to 'stay home with mum' that morning

On Tuesday, May 24, Salvador Ramos approached Robb Elementary school and barricaded himself inside a classroom where he opened fire on the children and teachers inside

Daily Mirror

Texas gunman was inside school for about 40 minutes, officials say

Timeline of events leading up to attack emerges, amid claims police had trouble opening door of classroom where attacker had barricaded himself in

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The Guardian - US

‘Evil will not win’: sorrow and disbelief as Uvalde mourns its children

Town comes together to try to come to terms with horrific attack in which 19 young children and two teachers were killed

Asharq Al-Awsat

Grief Turns to Anger after Gunman Murders 21 at Texas School

Grief at the massacre of 19 small children at an elementary school in Texas spilled into confrontation Wednesday, as angry questions mounted over gun control -- and whether this latest tragedy could have been prevented. The tight-knit Latino community of Uvalde on Tuesday became the site of America's worst school…

Al Jazeera

Shock, horror as Uvalde mourns children killed in school shooting

Community of 16,000 deeply shaken after gunman killed 19 children at the Robb Elementary School.

WEKU

Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school

A father whose fourth-grade daughter was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school and raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.

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Manchester Evening News

Shocking Texas school shooting details emerge as grief engulfs Uvalde

Onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas primary school to stop killer who'd bought guns just days after his 18th birthday

Los Angeles Times

All 21 victims in Texas school shooting were killed inside one classroom

UVALDE, Texas — A gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in one of the deadliest school massacres in U.S. history posted his intentions online before barricading himself inside a fourth-grade classroom, where all the fatalities and injuries occurred, state and federal officials said…

The Guardian - US

‘That smile I will never forget’: the victims of the Texas school shooting

More details have emerged about those who were killed on Tuesday when a gunman attacked Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas

Miami Herald

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra pauses to issue statement on Uvalde school shooting

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra opened his pregame press conference on Wednesday with a statement on Tuesday’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Los Angeles Times

How do you survive a mass shooting? We asked experts for advice

A grocery store. A church. An elementary school. Again.

The Conversation

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today

The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.

Chicago Sun-Times

No more thoughts and prayers. Without sensible gun restrictions, mass shootings will continue.

What does it say about our country when a child predicts something terribly wrong is going to take place at school, and then it does?

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