Biden calls for action on gun laws after Texas school shooting – as it happened
by Martin Belam (now); Samantha Lock and Kari Paul (e from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZKRH)
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The second US mass shooting in 10 days, which left 14 young children and a teacher dead at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, led to an outpouring of disbelief and potent rage at America's persistent failure to tackle its epidemic of gun violence.
Tuesday's horrifying attack in Uvalde, a small, largely Hispanic community outside San Antonio, came just 10 days after the events in Buffalo, New York. There 10 grocery shoppers, most of them African American, were gunned down in a supermarket.
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