Uvalde school shooting
Days after Uvalde massacre, Ohio approves armed school employees
The new law “is giving schools an option, based on their particular circumstances, to make the best decision they can make with the best information they have,” Ohio governor Mike DeWine said.
- by Mark Gillispie and Andrew Welsh-Huggins
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Gun reform deal reached by US senators with key Republican backing
The announcement marks the furthest that talks on a gun measure have advanced in Congress since 2013, following the Sandy Hook school massacre.
- by Richard Cowan
‘Politicians have done nothing’: Tens of thousands rally against gun violence across US
Demonstrators have rallied across the United States to demand laws curbing gun violence following last month’s massacre at a Texas school.
- by Ted Hesson
Analysis
Naked City
The awful truth: Why Americans will continue to kill their children
If Australia had the same population as the US, at our current gunshot homicide rate there would be 444 deaths a year. In the US it is around 20,000.
- by John Silvester
People will ask ‘why we’re taking so long’: As injuries mounted, Uvalde police waited
After an initial burst of shooting from the gunman, no police officer went near the door again for more than 40 minutes, instead hanging back.
- by J. David Goodman
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Guns in America
Survivor of Uvalde shooting ‘grabbed’ friend’s blood to stay alive
Miah Cerrillo,11, has recounted the terror of the day a gunman shot her classmates in Uvalde as the US Congress comes under pressure to act on gun violence.
- by Farrah Tomazin
‘People are hurting’: Uvalde-born actor Matthew McConaughey calls for gun control at White House
Echoing President Joe Biden’s stance, McConaughey called for red flag laws and raising the age to buy semi-automatic weapons to 21.
- by Aamer Madhani
Young men, mass shootings and the prefrontal cortex
Researchers into mass shootings have found that attacks are overwhelmingly carried out by men whose ages are strikingly clustered around two key periods in their lives.
- by Ariana Eunjung Cha, Meghan Hoyer and Tim Meko
Opinion
Good Weekend
My three-year-old masters mass-shooter drills while US leaders fail to act
American children are being asked to summon unbelievable courage every day while their representatives do nothing on gun control.
- by Amelia Lester
Mourners say goodbye to Uvalde teacher Irma Garcia and her husband Joe
Irma died in the shooting at the school, and her husband, Joe died two days later from a heart attack. The couple would have been married 25 years on June 28.
- by Jay Reeves and Adriana Gomez Licon
The Uvalde shooting ‘stirred something’ in him - so he gave up his assault rifle
Texas is facing painful questions about the proliferation of guns and the permissive state laws that allowed the 18-year-old to legally buy the weapon used in the attack.
- by Holly Bailey and Joshua Lott