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Nashville (AFP) - When Elizabeth Barese picked up her 11-year-old son from school on Monday, she knew she had to tell him that a shooting had happened the same day at the school neighboring their family home in Nashville. "We're right next door and there was a police presence," the 47-year-old told AFP. "I had to address it right away with him." Standing in front of the crosses erected outside the entrance to The Covenant School bearing the names of the six victims, three of them young children, Barese said: "It's not a conversation you want to have with your kids." "It's a delicate balance of...
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Washington (AFP) - As the fallout from yet another school shooting ripples through the United States, Americans are once again debating ways to keep their children safe. Here is a look at some of the options being discussed after Monday's massacre at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, from gun control proposals to armored safe rooms on school grounds. Banning assault weaponsThe shooter -- who killed six people, three of them children, at the small Christian academy -- had seven firearms, all legally purchased. Two assault rifles and a handgun were used during rampage, police have sai...
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Houston (AFP) - A four-year-old in Texas brought a loaded handgun to school, officials said, as the end of summer vacation in America reignites fears of school shootings. The scare on Wednesday in Corpus Christi came two days after a similar incident in Arizona, that time involving a child aged seven. In the Texas case, an off-duty police officer working at the school "called in for assistance advising that a four-year-old student was in possession of a loaded handgun on campus," police said in a statement. The officer took possession of the weapon. The parents of the child were identified as...
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Washington (AFP) - Texas state lawmakers on Sunday slammed law enforcement's slow response to the shooting in Uvalde, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, saying more decisive action could have saved lives. A total of 376 officers -- border guards, state police, city police, local sheriff departments and elite forces -- responded to the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School, members of the southern US state's House of Representatives said in a preliminary report. But, the lawmakers charged, the situation was "chaotic" due to the officers' "lackadaisical approach" to subduing...
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Houston (AFP) - The police chief in charge of operations at the Texas elementary school where a gunman murdered 21 people was not informed of desperate calls made by children trapped inside, a state senator said Thursday. The 911 calls "were not being communicated to the so-called incident commander," Senator Roland Gutierrez told a news conference, referring to the school district's police chief, Pete Arredondo. "There is human error, there is system error," Gutierrez said, adding it was unclear exactly who all was receiving the calls, but that he had been told it was only the Uvalde city pol...
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Uvalde (United States) (AFP) - A young boy who loved to dance, a girl who was "the happiest ever" -- here's a closer look at some of the victims of the mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers. Amerie Jo Garza, the big sisterAmerie Jo Garza, a young girl with a brilliant smile, had just celebrated her 10th birthday in mid-May. For unbearably long hours on Tuesday, her father Angel Garza had no news of her. "I don't ask for much or hardly even post on here but please it's been 7 hours and I still haven't heard anything on my love," he wro...
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New York (AFP) - This week's gun massacre at a Texas school has poured salt in the wounds of families forever grieving the death of their own children, as they call in vain for stricter gun control laws in the United States. "This is just eerily similar to what happened at Sandy Hook... and the more details come out, the more similar it becomes," said Nicole Hockley, one of the founders of a nonprofit started by parents from the Connecticut community, on MSNBC. "I've been in a state of shock, I've been angry, I've been sad." The organization, Sandy Hook Promise, posted the long list of US scho...
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Washington (AFP) - It's back to school time in America after a year of remote learning, but forget about the iconic yellow school bus: because of Covid, there is a shortage of drivers. The problem -- among other issues -- is that some drivers oppose mask-wearing mandates, and others, who are older and do this kind work after retiring from other jobs, are worried about catching the virus while driving kids around, education officials said. The Minneapolis area of Minnesota, for instance, has warned that school bus service this year will be sporadic because of what it called a driver shortage be...
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