Onlookers had urged police to charge into school as killing of 21 people began
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By JAKE BLEIBERG, JIM VERTUNO and ELLIOT SPAGAT
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers,

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the massacre ...... lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.

“Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began

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The attack was the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.

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“I just don’t know how people can sell that type of a gun to a kid 18 years old,” Siria Arizmendi, the aunt of victim Eliahna Garcia, said angrily through tears. “What is he going to use it for but for that purpose?”

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that “the Second Amendment is not absolute” as he called for new limitations on guns in the wake of the massacre.

But the prospects for reform of the nation’s gun regulations appeared dim.

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“Why did they do this to us?” the girl asked. “We’re good kids. We didn’t do anything wrong.”



Much more at: https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-texas-...83df6e4683
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price to pay for their type of freedom they'd been enjoying loh. maybe that's China's fault again
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