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The nation is grieving for the 19 students and two teachers who were killed in a shooting massacre at a Texas elementary school Tuesday.
Families with kids at Robb Elementary School in the majority-Latino city of Uvalde spent the hours after the rampage at a local civic center, trying to figure out if their loved ones were among the dead, as activists pleaded for gun reform in a country that’s long neglected to seriously consider it. Tuesday’s mass shooting in Uvalde is now America’s most deadly so far this year, and the worst school shooting since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012.
President Joe Biden, growing emotional in an evening address after the shooting, asked people to consider why mass shootings are such a frequent American occurrence, adding, “Where in God’s name is our backbone?” The gunman in the Uvalde shooting was an 18-year-old who purchased the weapon used in the slayings almost immediately after his birthday this month, according to the Washington Post.
“I’m furious that these shootings continue. These children are innocent. Rifles should not be easily available to all,” Lydia Martinez Delgado, the aunt of Eva Mireles, a fourth-grade teacher who was killed in Tuesday’s shooting, told ABC News. “This is my hometown, a small community of less than 20,000. I never imagined this would happen to especially to loved ones.”
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