Texas shooting

Officials said an 18-year-old gunman was killed by police in response to the shooting, the deadliest school gun massacre in the U.S. since February 2018, when ...

We have to do everything in our power to stop the insanity of children being shot and killed. We as a nation care more about celebs fighting in court than children dying in classrooms. Fuck you @GregAbbott_TXand fuck you, every Republican voter who claims to be “pro-life” but don’t actually give the slightest shit about humans once their born. — Stephen King (@StephenKing)May 24, 2022 HAS TO BE!! 😔😔😔😔🥺🥺🥺🥺.. Praying to the heavens above to all with kids these days in schools. God have absolute mercy on all of us. Sheesh. The timing. The timing. — bettemidler (@BetteMidler)May 24, 2022 And to those leaders I want to say,get the fuck off of your asses and DO SOMETHING! — Stephen King (@StephenKing)May 24, 2022 There are no words.

Death toll rises to 21 after shooting at a primary school in a small community in southern Texas.

“When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby,” he asked. He was taken into custody the next day. “[These] parents will never be the same again,” he said. We have to act. Don’t tell me we cannot have an impact on this carnage.” Our kids are leaving in fear every time they set foot in a classroom because they fear they will be next.

The attack came just 10 days after a deadly, racist rampage at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket that added to a yearslong series of mass killings at ...

United States president Joe Biden made an emotional appeal to curb America's gun culture Tuesday night after a gunman - a teenage boy - shot and killed 19 children at a Texas elementary school. Biden, whose lost both a son and a daughter, was joined by first lady Dr. Jill Biden at the White House on Tuesday night. Biden, Obama hit out at 'gun lobby': 'our country is paralyzed' MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL, February 2018 An attack left 14 students and three staff members dead at the school in Parkland, Florida, and injured many others. South Korea's government says one of the three weapons North Korea launched Wednesday was a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile. "Nearly ten years after Sandy Hook — and ten days after Buffalo — our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies. Thank you to heroic law enforcement & first responders for acting so swiftly." “As a nation we have to ask, when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? "Grief overwhelms the soul. When in God’s name are we going to do what has to be done?” Biden asked. We can do - and be - better. We must find answers." State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who said he had been briefed by state police, informed that the death toll also included three adults.

Law enforcement work the scene after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. A 9-year-old gunshot victim told his grandmother the shots sounded "like ...

“I was like in a fog. He’s scared right now, he said he was scared but he’s fine.” “I had gone to the civic center because my daughter was waiting for him,” she said. She took off over there and I called her. And all these families are at a loss for everything that’s happened,” she told KENS 5. “He has just been released, thank you God,” she said, relieved.

Governor Greg Abbott says 18-year-old gunman entered Robb Elementary School in small town of Uvalde, killing 15.

The US president has denounced mass shootings as a “national embarrassment” and promised to enact stricter gun regulations. Biden had been in Japan and South Korea on his first tour of the region since taking office in January of last year. In California that same weekend, a man opened fire on Taiwanese-American church congregants, killing one man. The suspect is deceased,” Arredondo said. “We are a broken nation, full of violence. “We live in a society where power absolutely refuses to protect our children.

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.

The Connecticut senator has made gun control his life's work since witnessing Sandy Hook parents learning their children had been killed.

It’s all about political power, and political muscle, and we’re in the process of building our own.” “In one classroom, that word was ‘monkey,’” he recounted, describing how teachers would then talk the children through their flashbacks. “Why?” Mr. Murphy exclaimed. “Why are you here if not to solve a problem as existential as this?” “Why are we here if not to try to make sure that fewer schools and fewer communities go through what Sandy Hook has gone through? “And over and over and over through the day, kids would stand up and yell, ‘Monkey!’”

There is heartbreak in Uvalde, Texas today after a mass shooting left eighteen children and a teacher dead at ...

There is a funeral home across the street from the school. During an impassioned speech on the Senate floor, he said hearts in his state where 26 schoolchildren and educators were killed a decade ago are breaking for the families in Texas. The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had said an active shooter was reported at the school, which has an enrollment of just under 600 students. Uvalde is home to about 16,000 people and is the seat of government for Uvalde County. The town is about 75 miles from the border with Mexico. Robb Elementary is in a mostly residential neighborhood of modest homes.

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, killing at least 19 students and two adults.

Numerous lawmakers and public figures spoke out on Tuesday by calling for action on gun control legislation in the wake of a tragedy that drew immediate comparisons to the Sandy Hook massacre, when 20 first graders and six educators were killed by an 18-year-old man armed with an AR-15-type rifle. “We’re a small community and we’re going to need your prayers to get through this.” “I’m here on this floor to beg to literally get down on my hands and knees to beg my colleagues. The death toll was later updated by Roland Gutierrez, a Texas state senator who was briefed by state police and spoke with media outlets. He ran into the school and began shooting, Gutierrez said. The school serves about 570 children, nearly 90% of them Latino.

Democrat Chris Murphy represented the area of Newtown, when a gunman killed 26 students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, ...

The 18-year-old attacker was killed by law enforcement. SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, December 2012 A 19-year-old man kills his mother at their home in Newtown, Connecticut, then goes to the nearby Sandy Hook Elementary School and kills 20 first graders and six educators, before taking his own life. "I'm here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues. Find a path forward here. Democrat Mr Murphy represented the area of Newtown, when a gunman killed 26 students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, almost a decade ago. Democrat Chris Murphy represented the area of Newtown, when a gunman killed 26 students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut, almost a decade ago.