Uvalde One Year Later
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🗓️ 24 May 2023
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About a month after the shooting, Congress passed the most significant gun legislation since the Federal Assault Weapons ban of 1994, but many Republican led-states, including Texas, have resisted gun safety legislation, even loosening gun restrictions.
Uvalde, too, is divided — between those who want stricter gun laws and those who oppose them, between those who want to mark a year since the massacre, and those who want to move on. And for the families who lost loved ones, they're still searching for justice, accountability, and healing. NPR's Adrian Florido reports from Uvalde. And we hear from Texas Tribune reporter Zach Despart about the police response to the shooting.
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| 0:00.0 | One year ago, a lone gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Rob Elementary in the small |
| 0:05.9 | town of Yvaldi, Texas. |
| 0:08.2 | Like other communities before it, Yvaldi, previously little known outside Texas, became synonymous |
| 0:13.7 | with the seemingly unstoppable epidemic of mass shootings. |
| 0:17.7 | The shooting on May 24th came just 10 days after a gunman killed 10 people at a grocery |
| 0:23.2 | store in Buffalo, New York. |
| 0:25.2 | Pressure for U.S. lawmakers to actually pass gun safety legislation reached a fever |
| 0:29.9 | pitch. |
| 0:30.9 | President Biden addressed Congress shortly after. |
| 0:33.6 | For God's sake, do something. |
| 0:37.1 | After Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Charleston, after Orlando, after Las Vegas, after |
| 0:43.9 | Parkland, nothing has been done. |
| 0:48.5 | This time that can't be true. |
| 0:50.2 | About a month after the shooting, Congress did pass, the bipartisan Safe For Communities |
| 0:54.3 | Act. |
| 0:55.3 | It was the most significant piece of gun legislation since the federal assault weapons ban in 1994, |
| 1:00.7 | which expired in 2004. |
| 1:03.1 | Last year's law implemented changes to the nation's mental health systems, school safety |
| 1:07.3 | policies, and moderately reformed gun safety laws. |
| 1:11.0 | Yet many state legislatures in Republican-led states, including Texas, have resisted passing |
| 1:16.5 | stronger gun safety legislation, and in some cases have loosened restrictions. |
| 1:20.9 | Here's NPR's Martin Kosty. |
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