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Greg Cote: An American tragedy, a lesson in Sioux Falls: Sports, real life in age of mass shootings

MIAMI — This involves a football team.

Miami Herald

A teacher who was at the Parkland shooting offers advice for the Uvalde survivors

Kim Krawczyk, a teacher who survived the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in 2018, shares advice for the community in Uvalde, Texas, after last week's mass shooting there.

WEKU

The Buffalo and Uvalde mass shootings have put some gun raffles on pause, for now

Charitable gun raffles have proliferated in recent years as fundraisers for law enforcement and civic organizations. But recent mass shootings have caused some organizers to postpone or cancel.

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Uvalde parents and school staffer start legal action against gunmaker

The parents of one the children killed at Robb Elementary and a speech pathology clerk are exploring a lawsuit against Daniel Defense, which made the AR-15-style rifle used in the mass shooting.

WEKU

Editorial: Don't be so quick to assume the Texas school shooting won't lead to new gun laws

A decade ago, a gunman killed 20 students and six teachers at a Connecticut elementary school, and many Americans wearily asked what the hell it would take to keep people safe on campuses as gun violence metastasized in a nation where the Constitution says gun rights shall not be infringed…

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Don’t expect teachers to be substitute police officers when the shooting starts

Teachers are trained to elevate young minds, not to gun down people wielding assault weapons who burst into their classroom intent on mass murder.

Los Angeles Times

Heidi Stevens: Parents spent the last 2 years yelling about masks harming kids' psyches. What about the constant fear of being shot?

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has responded to the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, by ordering “in-person, unannounced, random intruder detection audits” at schools.

Tribune News Service

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Michael Hiltzik: California's tough gun laws have made the state safer than the rest of the country

The most predictable response by the gun lobby and its political mouthpieces to calls for stricter gun laws in the wake of mass shootings is that tough laws don't work.

Los Angeles Times

'Moorhen' is the word of a champion as Texas teenager claims Spelling Bee title

A 14-year-old student spells 21 words correctly during a 90-second spell-off to claim the annual competition.

WEKU

Four children and an adult found dead in home near to where prisoner escaped

Convicted murderer Gonzalo Lopez has been shot dead police believe he may be linked to the deaths of four children and an adult at a home near to where he escaped

Daily Mirror

Escaped Texas prisoner suspected of killing 2 adults, 3 children

FORT WORTH, Texas — The man who authorities said escaped law enforcement custody May 12 by stabbing a bus driver after getting out of his shackles is now suspected of murdering five people, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced.

Tribune News Service

Fugitive suspected of taking truck from five found dead

State prison officials say a convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus after stabbing its driver on May 12 may be driving the truck linked to the deaths of five people

The Independent UK

Biden pleads for limits on assault weapons after killings

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden called for a ban on sales of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, pleading with Congress to toughen gun laws following a spate of mass shootings.

Tribune News Service

American schools and public places have become ‘battlefields’ says Biden in call for action on gun violence

President calls for age for firearm purchases to be raised from 18 to 21, and for reinstatement of assault weapons ban

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Texas’ Louie Gohmert lashes out at gun reform debate. ‘You don’t think we have hearts?’

Texas congressman Louie Gohmert delivered an emotional rebuttal in defense of gun rights during a House gun reform hearing Thursday.

Tribune News Service

Missouri police decide this may not be a good time for an AR-15 raffle

One Missouri police officers’ association decided against holding a gun raffle a week after a mass slaughter in Texas took the lives of 19 children and two educators. Another Show Me State officers’ association has seemingly decided to move forward with a similar fund-raiser, though an advertisement promoting the event…

WEKU

President Biden calls for assault weapons ban and other measures to curb gun violence

The address followed recent mass shootings in New York, Texas and Oklahoma. Biden said the measures aren't about taking away rights, but about protecting Americans.

Sports Illustrated

Texas A&M AD Says First Game vs. Texas Will Be at Kyle Field

The Longhorns will make their SEC debut no later than 2025.

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‘Sonny’s an angel’: Meet the 14-year-old battling cancer that helped inspire Texas on its way to winning the NCAA Championship

"He’s way tougher than we are but his toughness has definitely helped us out a lot."

Tribune News Service

Police seize cellphone of Texas shooting suspect in search for motive

More than a week after 18-year-old Salvador Ramos killed 19 students and two teachers inside their fourth-grade Texas classroom, investigators are still searching for a motive.

The Conversation

Texas school shooting: How assault-style rifles and ammunition kill and maim

The recent mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has sparked another round of the gun control debate.

Tribune News Service

Mac Engel: Coroner’s report on former Cowboys RB Marion Barber should include the word ‘football’

FORT WORTH, Texas — The average life expectancy for a male in the U.S. is 78 years.

The Independent UK

‘How dare you?’: Louie Gohmert has emotional outburst at gun bill hearing

Mr Gohmert is in his final term in Congress after losing a primary election for the Republican nomination to be the Texas attorney general

Tribune News Service

Stevie Nicks, ‘dying inside,’ calls for tougher gun laws

Just like the white-winged dove.

The Independent UK

The rise of the AR-15: Why America is defending a ‘weapon of war’

The AR-15 has been used in numerous high-casualty mass shootings including the recent shootings in Uvalde, Buffalo and Tulsa, John Bowden reports

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