Deadly mass shootings in the US

Service elementary school shooting in Uvalde comes just 10 days after a deadly racist riot at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, added to a string of mass shootings at churches, schools and shops that have lasted for many days. year in America.

The Robb Elementary School incident is the deadliest mass shooting at an American elementary school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012.

The Uvalde tragedy is the deadliest school shooting in Texas history. The latest death toll adds to the death toll from mass shootings in a state that has been home to some of the deadliest mass shootings in the US in the past five years.

In 2018, a gunman shot dead 10 people at Santa Fe High School in the Houston area. A year earlier, a gunman shot dead more than 20 people during a Sunday church service in the town of Sutherland Springs. In 2019, another gunman killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Walmart in El Paso.

Since the Sandy Hook incident, the gun control debate in the US Congress has not changed much. Efforts by legislators to change American gun policies in any significant way have consistently hit a snag.

A year after Sandy Hook, Senator Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, and Patrick J. Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, negotiated a bipartisan proposal to expand the background check system. country in purchasing firearms. But the measure failed to pass a vote in the Senate.

Last year, the House of Representatives America passed two bills to expand background checks on firearm purchases. A bill that would close loopholes in the online and private sale of firearms. The other bill extends background check times. However, both bills failed to make it past the 50-50 Senate, where Democrats need at least 10 Republican votes to pass.