Fourteen students and a teacher were killed Tuesday in a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Ted CruzTuesday writing he and his wife Heidi were “fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde.” He continued to thank law enforcement and first responders.
The Uvalde shooting is the deadliest mass shooting of the year in the United States. It comes on the heels of another tragic mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, when a lone gunman killed ten people at a grocery store in a largely Black neighborhood on May 14. There have been more than 200 mass shootings in the United States in 2022 already, according to a, an independent non-profit that tracks incidents of gun violence.
Early reports of the shooting evoked memories of Sandy Hook, where a gunman killed 26 people in 2012, 20 of whom were children, and quickly prompted calls for gun reform.
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