Author: ABC News

Some Republicans pushing back on Democrats’ calls for tighter gun laws

As President Joe Biden and the first lady prepare to head to Uvalde, Texas in the wake of this week’s school shooting that left 21 dead, the conversation on Capitol Hill over gun laws is being hotly debated. Republicans are pushing back on Democrats’ calls for tighter gun legislation, and are pointing to mental illness as the main issue. Some psychiatrists say that argument is unfounded and even harmful.

Shooting at school in Uvalde, TX the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history

An elementary school in Uvalde, Texas is now the scene of the second deadliest school shooting in our nation’s history. 19 children and two teachers were killed. A state public safety official now says all those killed were in one classroom. We’re learning more now about those victims, mostly third and fourth graders, senselessly gunned down just two days before the end of the school year.