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Words: Adam CreightonProducer: Louise Starkey
‘It’s time to act’: President Biden unleashes on US over gun laws
This was US President Joe Biden's reaction to the brutal massacre of 19 schoolchildren and two adults, including at least one teacher, at a Texas primary school on May 24.
High school student Salvador Ramos, 18, shot his 66-year-old grandmother before entering the grounds of Robb ­Elementary School at Uvalde about midday.
He was carrying at least one assault rife, shooting students aged between seven and nine before being shot dead by police.
The shooting came less than two weeks after Peyton Gendron, 18, shot and killed 10 shoppers in a racially motivated ­attack in Buffalo, New York, inflaming an already heated national debate about gun control.
This latest massacre is the third worst school or university shooting in the US, ­behind the 2012 murder of 26 students and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, and 32 students killed in Virginia Tech university in 2007.
The 27th school shooting this year will intensify debate between Democrats, who typically support tough limits on guns, and Republicans, who tend not to, potentially elevating the policy issue ahead of the November midterm elections.
Mass shootings have risen from 417 in 2019 to 693 in 2021.
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