After a failed police response to the shooting deaths of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, there were calls for accountability and new gun laws.
Tag: Uvalde, Tex, Shooting (May 24, 2022)
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How Uvalde Parents Learned to Grieve in Public
After 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza was killed at Robb Elementary, Kimberly Garcia and Angel Garza had to face unimaginable loss without the solace of privacy.
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A Year After a School Shooting, Divisions Run Through Uvalde
Tensions have flared over new rifts between victims’ families and the police, and between gun owners and newly minted gun-control activists.
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In Shift, Texas House Advances Bill to Raise Age to Buy Assault Weapons
The mass shooting at a shopping center in Allen, Texas, has exerted an unexpectedly raw and emotional force on the State Legislature.
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After Mass Killings in Texas, Frustration but No Action on Guns
The drumbeat of mass murder has fueled a new openness to gun regulation among some Texans, but it has done little to reshape the political realities in the State Capitol.