A Texas official told a hearing that “terrible decisions” were made by the onsite commander and officers who did not have enough training.
The new law “is giving schools an option,based on their particular circumstances,to make the best decision they can make with the best information they have,” Ohio governor Mike DeWine said.
The announcement marks the furthest that talks on a gun measure have advanced in Congress since 2013,following the Sandy Hook school massacre.
Demonstrators have rallied across the United States to demand laws curbing gun violence following last month’s massacre at a Texas school.
If Australia had the same population as the US,at our current gunshot homicide rate there would be 444 deaths a year. In the US it is around 20,000.
After an initial burst of shooting from the gunman,no police officer went near the door again for more than 40 minutes,instead hanging back.
Miah Cerrillo,11,has recounted the terror of the day a gunman shot her classmates in Uvalde as the US Congress comes under pressure to act on gun violence.
Echoing President Joe Biden’s stance,McConaughey called for red flag laws and raising the age to buy semi-automatic weapons to 21.
Researchers into mass shootings have found that attacks are overwhelmingly carried out by men whose ages are strikingly clustered around two key periods in their lives.
American children are being asked to summon unbelievable courage every day while their representatives do nothing on gun control.
Irma died in the shooting at the school,and her husband,Joe died two days later from a heart attack. The couple would have been married 25 years on June 28.