Texas shooting

The horrific scene at Robb Elementary School, where a gunman killed at least 18 students and three adults, is the latest atrocity in a country besieged by ...

Over the course of the last decade — and thousands more mass shootings — the legislative body has repeatedly failed to change gun policies in the United States. Or as Princeton historian Kevin Kruse put it, “At this point in America, it's no longer a question of *if* you'll be impacted by a mass shooting. There have been more than 200 mass shootings in the United States in 2022 already, according to a tally from the Gun Violence Archive, an independent non-profit that tracks incidents of gun violence. State Senator Roland Gutierrez, who represents Uvalde, confirmed in a live interview on CNN that 18 children, who were in the second, third and fourth grades, died. President Joe Biden, who campaigned on gun control, conceded in the aftermath of the Buffalo shooting that his executive powers are limited in this area. “We have another Sandy Hook on our hands.

An active shooter was reported at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas Tuesday, the school district said in a statement on Twitter.

Like seriously "AT SCHOOL" where it's suppose to be the safest!" It’s time for you to join us in passing gun violence prevention legislation." "Like when is enough enough man!!! "Our hearts break in El Paso for the children and teacher lost in the shooting in Uvalde, Texas. It is particularly shattering that the most innocent of souls were targeted," Leeser said. Police say a suspect is in custody. Texas leaders took to Twitter to respond to what occurred at the Texas school Tuesday.

Senator Chris Murphy begs his colleagues to do something to stop the carnage: 'it is our choice to let it continue'

The event will be strictly gun-controlled in ways the NRA and Trump routinely oppose for any other setting. We have to save our kids, because this is what’s happening every single day in our cities.” At some point in time we all have to say that’s enough. “Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate if your answer, as the slaughter increases, is we do nothing? I’m here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues to find a path forward,” he said. Our kids are living in fear.

Connecticut U.S. Chris Murphy, who came to Congress representing Sandy Hook, begged his colleagues to finally pass legislation that addresses the nation's ...

“I understand my Republican colleagues will not agree to everything that I may support, but there is a common denominator that we can find,” he said, acknowledging the problem of gun violence can't be solved overnight. “We are devastated by yet another heart-wrenching school shooting incident in America – this time in Uvalde, Texas, nearly 10 years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting tragedy,” said Po Murray, chair of the Newtown Action Alliance, in a written statement. “For the past decade, we have warned all Americans, including elected politicians across the nation, that if a mass shooting can happen in Sandy Hook then it can happen anywhere.

An 18-year-old gunman has killed 14 students and one teacher at Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde.

CNN is reporting that Robb Elementary had 535 students in the 2020-21 school year. "First responders typically can't get there in time to prevent a shooting. It's just not possible unless you have a police officer on every campus," he said. A 2020 report from the US Government Accountability Office found that about two-thirds of all school shootings happen at the high school level, and that shootings in elementary schools are most commonly accidental. "Enough is enough," she said. The last day of classes for students in the school district was scheduled for Thursday. Seniors at the local high school in Uvalde, a community of about 16,000 residents, are due to graduate on Friday. She called for gun control: "We simply need legislators willing to stop the scourge of gun violence in America that is murdering our children." In a tweet reacting to the shooting, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said "we are becoming a nation of anguished screams". In a statement, he ordered US flags across all public buildings and grounds, military posts and naval stations, and all naval vessels to be flown at half mast, as well as flags at embassies, consular offices and military and naval facilities in the US and abroad. He also thanked the "courageous first responders" who worked to "secure the site" of the shooting. US President Joe Biden has returned today to the US from a visit to Japan has been informed of the tragedy. Abbott says he and his wife, Cecilia, are mourning the day's "horrific loss" and he has urged the state of Texas to come together.

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, in 2012 killed 20 first graders and six adults.

“We are devastated by yet another heart wrenching school shooting incident in America,” the group’s chairwoman, Po Murray, said in a statement. The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012 killed 20 first graders and six adults and plunged the nation into a stunned grief. That same year, 10 people were killed in a shooting at Santa Fe High School, in Santa Fe, Texas.