Topline Nearly 30 survivors of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, filed a $27 billion class action lawsuit, alleging law enforcement officials’ miscommunication and inaction...
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Americans’ Support For Stricter Gun Laws Has Dropped Since Uvalde And Buffalo Shootings
Topline Days after a mass shooting at an LGBTQ bar in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a new poll taken before the shooting shows support for stricter gun laws has slipped in recent months since two earlie...
Entire Police Force Suspended By Uvalde School District
Topline Nearly half a year after a gunman opened fire on students and teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the school district took the step of suspending its entire police force on Frid...
Families Of Uvalde Shooting Survivors Sue Local Officials And Gunmakers
Topline The families of three elementary school students who survived the Robb Elementary School mass shooting in May filed a lawsuit in federal court in Texas on Wednesday, accusing the Uvalde school...
Two Minors Hospitalized Following Shooting In Uvalde, Gang Violence Suspected
Topline Two minors were injured in a shooting in Uvalde, Texas on Thursday evening in a suspected gang-related incident which comes a few months after a deadly mass shooting at an elementary school in...
Uvalde School Police Chief Pete Arredondo Fired
Topline The Uvalde school board voted unanimously Wednesday night to fire school district Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who was widely condemned for leading a sluggish police response during the Robb E...
Uvalde Superintendent Recommends Police Chief Pete Arredondo Be Fired
Topline The Uvalde schools’ superintendent recommended school District Police Chief Pete Arredondo be fired on Wednesday, over harsh criticism for his department’s response to the school shooting at R...
Uvalde School Shooting Response Plagued By ‘Systemic Failures,’ State Report Finds
Topline A series of “systemic failures” and “egregious poor decision making” prevented police from quickly reacting to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in May, according to a repo...
Video From Uvalde School Shooting Published Showing Police Response
Topline Video footage compiled by investigators that was obtained by the Austin American-Statesman of the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, shows how police on the scene hesitated t...
Uvalde Police Officer Could Have Shot Gunman But Didn’t Get Response From Supervisor, Report Finds
Topline A Uvalde, Texas, police officer aimed his rifle toward a gunman outside Robb Elementary School before a brutal mass shooting over a month ago, but he didn’t get a response when he asked a supe...
Uvalde School Police Chief Steps Down From City Council Amid Criticism For Mass Shooting Response
Topline Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo has resigned from the city council of Uvalde, Texas, weeks after he was sworn in amid harsh criticism for his response to the deadliest schoo...
Uvalde School Police Chief Arredondo Placed On Leave
Topline The police chief who oversaw the law enforcement response to last month’s elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was placed on leave Wednesday, just one day after the head of the Texas D...
Uvalde Classroom Door Wasn’t Locked—And Police Didn’t Try To Open It Without A Key, Texas Law Enforcement Official Testifies
Topline Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw issued a scathing assessment Tuesday of local law enforcement’s response to the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that kille...
The United States’ Other Mass Shootings [Infographic]
The Buffalo supermarket shooting, the massacre of elementary school children in Uvalde, Texas, then the attack on a doctor and bystanders in Tulsa and finally yesterday’s workplace shooting at a Maryl...
Uvalde Officers Knew Of Injuries Inside School As They Waited To Confront Gunman, Report Says
Topline Several Uvalde police officers—including the school district police chief—became aware there were injured people inside Robb Elementary School requiring medical attention while they waited to ...
Here’s Everything That Turned Out To Not Be True
Topline Texas authorities have faced mounting criticism for offering contradicting reports and retracting key details about the timeline of the shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead at ...
Uvalde Victims Demand Answers From Daniel Defense—Maker Of Rifle Used By Shooter
Topline Attorneys representing the father of a 10-year-old student killed in the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left 21 people dead filed a letter Friday that demands ans...
Uvalde School Police Chief Reportedly Didn’t Have Radio With Him During Shooting Response
Topline The Uvalde school police chief in charge of the response to the shooting at an elementary school that left 19 students and two teachers dead did not have a police radio with him as he gave ord...
Texas Gov. Abbott Orders Schools To Check Doors Weekly Following Uvalde Shooting
Topline Texas schools must conduct weekly inspections of their facilities’ outside doors, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) told state Commissioner of Education Mike Morath on Thursday, after police reported...
School Police Chief Wasn’t Informed About 911 Calls From Inside Classroom During Uvalde Shooting, State Senator Says
Topline A Texas state senator said Thursday that frantic 911 calls from inside the elementary school classroom where a shooter barricaded himself last week were not relayed to the incident’s commander...
Texas Governor Abbott Demands ‘Firearm Safety’ Committee After Uvalde Shooting
Topline Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday called for the Texas legislature to immediately convene committees to take “meaningful action” following last week’s mass shooting at a Uvalde eleme...
Uvalde Teacher Closed A Propped-Open Door Before School Shooting, State Reportedly Finds—Reversing Earlier Claims
Topline An elementary school teacher in Uvalde, Texas, who propped open an external door ahead of last week’s deadly school shooting later returned to close the door before the gunman entered through ...
Support For Tighter Gun Laws In The U.S. Or Canada? [Infographic]
After the gun massacres in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, U.S. President Joe Biden has pledged action on gun control. Due to the Democrats’ shaky majority in Congress, however, the future of any...
Canadian Handgun Ban Wouldn’t Cause Much Pain For U.S. Gun Makers
Topline Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced sweeping gun control legislation including a “national freeze” on the sale of handguns Monday, and, though Canada is one of the largest import...
Key Democrats Say Texas School Shooting Could Mark Turning Point On Gun Control
Topline Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is optimistic Congress could take “small and life saving steps” on gun control, the second highest-ranking Senate Democrat told CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, as la...
U.S. Handgun Imports Topped $1 Billion For First Time In 2021
Handgun imports have surged in recent years, with the imports in March the last two years up … [+] sharply, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau. ustradenumbers.com For the f...
More Than A Thousand Gather To Protest Gun Violence Outside Houston NRA Conference After Uvalde Tragedy
Topline More than a thousand people—some carrying child-size coffins—as well as several Texas politicians, including Texas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Beto O’Rourke, gathered across the str...
Student Pleaded With 911 To ‘Send The Police Now’ As Officers On Scene Waited For Tactical Units To Arrive
Topline Texas authorities fleshed out their timeline Friday on the police response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday that left 21 dead and 17 injured, as it e...
‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ And ‘Stranger Things 4’ Open With Scenes Of Violence Against Kids That Jar In Wake Of Uvalde Shooting
Topline Opening scenes of two highly anticipated shows, Netflix’s Stranger Things 4 and Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi, struck a sour note this week, featuring violence against children, as the nation grapp...