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The Latest Breaking News from Greg Abbott

The parents of these Uvalde victims want to ban AR-15s. Will America listen?

Those touched by Uvalde shooting want reform, but Republicans in Texas and beyond won’t budge

The Independent UK

Texas governor issues disaster declaration in Uvalde to expedite aide to community

FORT WORTH, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott has declared a state of disaster in the southwest Texas city of Uvalde after a gunman entered an elementary school there and killed 19 children and two teachers, according to a news release from the governor’s office.

Tribune News Service

Texas governor declares disaster in Uvalde to help deploy resources ‘needed to heal’

Greg Abbott’s order expedites critical state and local aid to grieving town

The Independent UK

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‘We have to do something’: calls mount for Texas gun control laws after latest deadly attack

As data indicates state leads the US in mass shooting deaths, Democrats – and some Republicans – demand legislative action

The Guardian - US

Uvalde grieves, says goodbyes at visitations, funerals

It should have been the first day of a joyous week for Robb Elementary School students — the start of summer break

The Independent UK

Ulvade parents reject Abbott

“My first thought was: ‘My Lexi doesn’t even like him’"

Salon

Commentary: Why our response to school shootings is all wrong

“He shot and killed horrifically, incomprehensibly,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said, describing the actions of the 18-year-old gunman allegedly responsible for killing 19 children and two adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last Tuesday.

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John M. Crisp: Our gun problem is actually a governance problem

Was there a moment when it dawned on you that the Uvalde massacre of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers is not going to result in any meaningful change in our nation’s gun laws?

Tribune News Service

Salvador Ramos: Everything we know about Texas school mass shooter

Eighteen-year-old Uvalde high school student shot his grandmother before driving to Robb Elementary School where he killed 21 people

The Independent UK

Texas mass shooting could affect governor’s race

Beto O’Rourke’s outburst at Greg Abbott’s news conference highlighted starkly different approaches to gun control.

Al Jazeera

Mass shooter took more ammunition into Uvalde elementary school than US soldier takes into battle

Salvador Ramos legally bought two AR-15 rifles and 1,657 rounds of ammunition for his 18th birthday, just days before he killed 19 children and two teachers

The Independent UK

One family's photo album includes images of a vacation, a wedding anniversary and the lynching of a Black man in Texas

As a historian and director of the Lynching in Texas project, which has documented more than 600 racial terror lynchings, I receive regular emails from journalists, scholars and activists who want to discuss the history of racial violence.

The Conversation

O'Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor's race

Democrat Beto O'Rourke briefly seized the presidential race spotlight in 2019 when he declared after a mass shooting his hometown of El Paso, Texas, that “Hell yes, we're gonna take your AR-15.”

The Independent UK

Ten-year-old arrested for threatening school shooting in Florida

‘Right now is not the time to act like a little delinquent. It’s not funny,’ sheriff says

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Salon

Gov. Abbott booed in Uvalde

Abbott, who arrived to meet with Biden, faced jeers and heckling from the crowd

The Independent UK

Biden responds to protesters pressing him to ‘do something’ on Uvalde school visit: ‘We will’

Over the weekend, bipartisan group of senators in Congress discussed ways to reach compromise on gun safety legislation

The Independent UK

Salvador Ramos: Everything we know about Texas school mass shooter

Eighteen-year-old Uvalde high school student shot his grandmother before driving to Robb Elementary School where he killed 21 people

The Independent UK

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is booed as he visits Uvalde school: ‘Shame on you’

‘Our children are under constant attack in this community. We need help’

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WEKU

Days after the Uvalde shooting, the NRA convention went on as planned

Thousands gathered inside of the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston for the NRA convention while swaths of others convened outside in protest, advocating for gun control legislation.

The Guardian - US

‘Do something!’: Biden visits Uvalde after mass shooting as onlookers urge him to take action

President and first lady visit seek to comfort community as DoJ launches investigation into police response to school shooting

The Independent UK

Anonymous donor covers all the funeral expenses for the Uvalde shooting victims

The anonymous donor contributed $175,000 to go towards the funeral costs of the 21 victims

Al Jazeera

Inside the minds of Americans who do not think guns are a problem

Republicans in Texas double down on their pro-gun stance after the latest in a string of mass shootings in the state.

The Independent UK

Critical mistakes made by police at heart of Texas school shooting investigation

Texas Department of Public Safety will further analyse the police’s response to the shooting.

Los Angeles Times

Making sense of a mass shooting in the middle of Texas gun country

UVALDE, Texas — Randall Methvin is a thoughtful man who talks with a Texas twang, still works as a ranch hand at age 68 and has felt an affinity for firearms since childhood, when his Depression-hardened father would take him out quail and dove hunting.

The Independent UK

Texas state senator says ‘we’re all angry’ over Uvalde police response and expects full report

‘How an 18-year-old can access militarized weaponry anywhere is beyond me’

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