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President Biden spoke from the Roosevelt Room on May 24 following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Oliver Contreras/The Washington Post)

Biden urges end to ‘carnage’ of gun violence after 19 children killed at Texas school

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President Biden on Tuesday evening urged Congress to end the “carnage” of gun violence after more than a dozen elementary schoolchildren were killed by an 18-year-old in Texas.  
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The gunman shot his grandmother before going to the school, police said. She was being treated at a hospital Tuesday night.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) suggested that the solution to school shootings is to arm teachers. Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Murphy (D) of Connecticut, the state where the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred, pleaded on the Senate floor for gun-control legislation.
Former president Donald Trump is scheduled to address the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston on Friday.
The day before the shooting, the FBI released a report saying that the number of “active shooter” attacks nationwide had risen sharply last year, doubling from two years earlier.
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The gunman shot his grandmother before going to the school, police said. She was being treated at a hospital Tuesday night.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) suggested that the solution to school shootings is to arm teachers. Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Murphy (D) of Connecticut, the state where the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred, pleaded on the Senate floor for gun-control legislation.
Former president Donald Trump is scheduled to address the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston on Friday.
The day before the shooting, the FBI released a report saying that the number of “active shooter” attacks nationwide had risen sharply last year, doubling from two years earlier.
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