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US President Joe Biden has visited a memorial to the 19 students and two teachers killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas earlier this week.
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US President Joe Biden has visited a memorial to the 19 students and two teachers killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas earlier this week.
The trip follows comments Biden made to the nation after the shooting, in which he demanded action on gun control measures and blamed lawmakers for failing to pass even "common-sense gun laws."
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The timeline of events as told by officials with the texas department of public safety, has been unclear and the official story has shifted with each press conference. we now know that roughly an hour passed before law enforcement reached the classroom where the shooter was barricaded and killed him. local law enforcement, and their handguns, where initially no match for the shooter. with his assault rifles. so they waited for reinforcement, but even after they arrived, they were still slow to act. to senior federal law enforcement officials tell nbc news that when tactical units from border c...