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Former US president Donald Trump says "law-abiding citizens" should be allowed the firearms they need, to defend themselves against "evil" to members of the National Rifle Association, rejecting calls for tightened gun controls following the Texas school massacre. SOUNDBITE
Top Texas security official Steven McCraw says that in "hindsight", it was the wrong decision for police not to immediately breach the Uvalde classroom where a gunman ultimately shot dead 19 children and two teachers. SOUNDBITE
Protesters demanding greater gun control gather outside a venue where US gun lobby group, the National Rifle Association (NRA), holds its annual convention in Houston, Texas, three days after a horrific school shooting in the state killed 19 children and two teachers. IMAGES
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announces that US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to the Texan town of Uvalde on Sunday. SOUNDBITE
Community members attend a prayer vigil in Uvalde, Texas, after a gunman murdered 19 small children and two teachers at a local elementary school -- America's worst school shooting in a decade. IMAGES
Two days after a shooting took place at a school in Vantaa, north of Finland's capital Helsinki, a police officer takes down the police cordon that had surrounded the school grounds. Finland is still reeling from the shock of the shooting, in which a 12-year-old boy is suspected of killing a classmate and wounding two girls after opening fire at the Viertola school. IMAGES
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