How countries around the world have responded to mass shootings [washingtonpost.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 5/26/229:45 AM

By Adam Taylor, Amanda Coletta, and Jennifer Hassan, Photo: Jane Barlow/PA Images/Getty Images, The Washington Post, May 26, 2022

A mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Tex., claimed the lives of at least 19 children and two teachers Tuesday in the deadliest school shooting in the United States in almost a decade.

The killings came less than two weeks after a mass shooting left 10 people dead at a busy supermarket in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo.

Tuesday’s school shooting is just the latest example of such a massacre in the United States, where firearms are a bitter partisan political issue. As in other cases, calls for strong gun-control measures have followed in the wake of the Texas attack, along with an outpouring of anger and grief on social media.

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