A teenage gunman shot up a Texas primary school, killing 19 young children and three adults (two of them teachers) on Tuesday. 

The attack occurred in Uvalde, which is a small community an hour away from the Mexican border,  and was the deadliest US school shooting in years. 

The incident spurred a furious denouncement of the US gun lobby by US president Joe Biden. ‘It’s time to turn this pain into action for every parent, for every citizen of this country’ he said. 

“As a nation, we have to ask when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?”

Texas governor Greg Abbott named the suspect as Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old resident and US citizen. CNN was informed by public safety officials that Ramos even shot his grandmother before heading to the school. 

The gunman was subsequently killed by responding officers. More than a dozen children were wounded in the attack at the school, which teaches more than 500, mostly Hispanic, students. 

This was the deadliest incident since the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, in which 20 children and six staff were killed. 

However, just this month on May 14th, another 18 year old man shot 10 people dead at a Buffalo, New York grocery store. The May 14th attack was a self-declared white supremacist who live-streamed his attack. Another man blocked a church door in California and shot and killed one person. 

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