President returns to White House after visiting small south Texas city and says he will continue to push for gun control
the final funeral for victims killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, just over two weeks ago, where an assault rifle was used in a racist attack at a supermarket in a majority Black neighborhood.
Amerie Jo Garza will be buried on Tuesday, one week after the shooting, with a service at the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Uvalde, where the US president and first lady Jill Biden attended a service during their visit on Sunday, before meeting with bereaved families, survivors and first responders.
to Biden and Texas governor Greg Abbott on Sunday – but asking more agonizing questions about why armed police waited for more than an hour outside the classroom where the gunman was killing so many. Amerie Jo’s family described her as a “sassy diva”. Her father, Alfred Garza, criticized inaction on gun safety laws, which allowed an 18-year-old local man legally to buy assault rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition that he used to perpetrate the killings last week.
Parent Javier Cazares had raced to Robb elementary, his daughter’s school, when he heard there was a shooting, leaving his truck running with the door open as he ran into the school yard. He is a gun owner but, in his rush in the emergency, he didn’t have it with him.
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