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19 children, 2 adults killed in Texas elementary school shooting – 3 essential reads on America's relentless gun violence

  • Written by Matt Williams, Breaking News Editor
imageFriends and families gather outside the civic center after the mass school shooting on May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images

At least 19 children and two adults were killed when a teenage gunman shot them at a Texas elementary school on May 24, 2022 – the latest mass shooting in a country in which such incidents...

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