Covering the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012 became a personal matter for my family and our young son. Today,it seems no lessons have been learnt.
Among the thoughts and prayers there were also calls for action as people wrestled with the tragedy of the Uvalde school shooting.
“I’m here on this floor to beg — to literally get down on my hands and knees and beg my colleagues,” Democrat Chris Murphy told the Senate.
Does it really need to be like this? Should going to school be an occupational hazard for the sake of the Second Amendment?
As broadcasters spout racist theories,Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are under pressure to stop their “reckless amplification in the wake of the Buffalo massacre.
Instead of assistance in a moment when she was “scared for my life,” Latisha Rogers said the dispatcher dismissed her with “a very nasty tone”.
Our North America correspondent arrived in Buffalo,NY,a day after America’s latest mass shooting and found a community rallying together to deal with shock,grief and anger.
Biden called out sections of the media and political figures for radicalising “angry,alienated,lost and isolated individuals” into believing racist ideas.
News that the shooter had been scoping out the supermarket in advance added to the anger and heartbreak of local residents trying desperately to process the massacre.
Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said the motive of the shooting was a grievance between the shooter,identified as a Chinese immigrant,and the Taiwanese community.
“I thought there was a bomb or something going off:boom,boom,boom,” says Buffalo resident Cecelia Williams. “But this was a terrorist act. ”