Amanda Gorman decries US inaction on gun violence in poem after Texas school shooting

The poet, who performed at the inauguration of Joe Biden, says to do nothing isn't just insanity - it's inhumanity'

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Amanda Gorman, the 24-year-old US poet who rose to fame for her performance at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, has written a poem as the nation mourns the killing of 19 children in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas.

An 18-year-old man opened fire at Robb elementary school in Uvalde on Tuesday, killing at least 19 students and two adults. The suspect, named by Texas governor Greg Abbott as Salvador Romas, shot his grandmother at her home, then fled the scene by car and wrecked it outside the elementary school, where he ran in and began shooting.