The findings laid out how heavily armed officers waited more than an hour to confront and kill the 18-year-old gunman. An investigation is still ongoing into how the days after the attack were marred by authorities giving inaccurate and conflicting accounts about efforts made to stop a teenage gunman armed with an AR-style rifle.Ī damning report by Texas lawmakers found nearly 400 officers had been on the scene, from an array of federal, state and local agencies. And Uvalde is still managing the fallout from the botched emergency response to the shooting. The law toughened background checks for the youngest gun buyers, and sought to keep firearms from domestic violence offenders and to help states put in place red flag laws that make it easier for authorities to take weapons away from people adjudged to be dangerous.īut those laws haven’t stopped mass shootings or gun deaths of children. The killings, along with another mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, prompted bipartisan legislation that passed through a divided Congress just a month later, It was the most significant gun safety law in decades. “And in each place, we hear the same message: Do something. “Standing there in Uvalde, Jill and I couldn’t help but think that too many schools, too many everyday places have become killing fields in communities across America,” Biden is expected to say. CDT, the moment the shooter entered Robb Elementary School last year, touching off the nation’s deadliest school shooting in a decade.īiden will talk about what he saw when he visited the town shortly after the shooting, according to excerpts of his remarks. The town planned a private ceremony and candlelight vigil in the evening, and the Texas legislature paused for a few moments of silence at 11:30 a.m. WASHINGTON > As families and loved ones mourn the unimaginable loss of 19 children and two teachers shot dead last year in Uvalde, Texas, President Joe Biden will speak today about the epidemic of gun violence that has become the No.
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