Joe Perez and his daughter, Erika Escamilla say prayers during a vigil at Getty Street Church of Christ after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, US, May 24, 2022.A teenage gunman murdered at least 19 children and two teachers after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, the latest bout of gun-fuelled mass killings in the US and the nation's worst school shooting in nearly a decade.
Speaking from the White House hours later, a visibly shaken U.S. President Joe Biden urged Americans to stand up to the politically powerful US gun lobby, which he blamed for blocking enactment of tougher firearms safety laws.“As a nation, we have to ask, 'When in God's name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?'” Biden said on national television, suggesting reinstating a US ban on assault-style weapons and other “common sense gun laws.
After conflicting early accounts of the death toll, Texas public safety officials said Tuesday night that 19 schoolchildren and two teachers had died. A mass shooting 10 days earlier claimed 10 lives in Buffalo, New York, in a predominantly Black neighbourhood. Authorities have charged an 18-year-old who they said had travelled hundreds of miles to Buffalo and opened fire with an assault-style rifle at a grocery store.
Tuesday's shooting in Texas was the deadliest at a US school since a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in December 2012. In 2018, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killed 17 students and educators.
How do you allow a private citizen to own an automatic assault rifle. Unbelievable. Stricter firearm ownership regulations required.
POTUS Russia is behind all these shootings. They want law abiding citizens to be disarmed, so that chaos and a racial war can break out there, trying to destroy USA's democracy, as in all democratic countries. Russia has been hinting this for years on it's Russia Today TV.
Russia is behind all these shootings. They want law abiding citizens to be disarmed, so that chaos and a racial war can break out there, trying to destroy USA's democracy, as in all democratic countries. Russia has been hinting this for years on it's Russia Today TV channel.
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