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Added on the 25/05/2022 23:05:47 - Copyright : France 24 EN
America’s outlaw motorcycle gangs again thrust themselves into the national spotlight with the deadly Sunday gunfight at a central Texas restaurant involving at least two rival gangs and law enforcement. To make sense of the violence, it helps to understand its context.
Former US president Donald Trump says "law-abiding citizens" should be allowed the firearms they need, to defend themselves against "evil" to members of the National Rifle Association, rejecting calls for tightened gun controls following the Texas school massacre. SOUNDBITE
Top Texas security official Steven McCraw says that in "hindsight", it was the wrong decision for police not to immediately breach the Uvalde classroom where a gunman ultimately shot dead 19 children and two teachers. SOUNDBITE
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announces that US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to the Texan town of Uvalde on Sunday. SOUNDBITE
Community members attend a prayer vigil in Uvalde, Texas, after a gunman murdered 19 small children and two teachers at a local elementary school -- America's worst school shooting in a decade. IMAGES
Images show the scene outside an elementary school in Texas where a teenage gunman killed at least 19 young children and two teachers. The attack in Uvalde -- a small community about an hour from the Mexican border -- was the deadliest US school shooting in years, and the latest in a spree of bloody gun violence across America. IMAGES
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