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Trudeau says ‘all of Canada grieves’ as outrage grips U.S. following Texas shooting

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday evening that "all of Canada grieves" with those in Texas who lost loved ones at a elementary school shooting in Uvalde. At least 19 students and two teachers were killed in the shooting. The gunman is also dead, according to police – May 25, 2022

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has joined a global chorus of grief following the shooting deaths of 19 children at a small-town elementary school in Texas.

Trudeau says all of Canada is grieving the tragedy, which unfolded Tuesday afternoon in Uvalde, Tex., a community of 16,000 just west of San Antonio.

In the U.S., however, which is reeling from a recent string of mass shootings, grief has already given way to unbridled rage.

Tuesday’s shooting, which also claimed the lives of two adults, comes less than two weeks after a gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y.

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And it echoes the 10-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in Newtown, Penn., which killed 20 children and six adults _ a tragedy that failed to spur meaningful gun control efforts in the U.S.

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The Texas horror is sure to dominate Senate proceedings, where President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is set to testify at committee.

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“The students, the parents, the teachers, the entire community–they’ve had their lives changed forever by this unimaginable event,” a sombre Trudeau said Tuesday in Vancouver.

“All of Canada grieves with our American friends on this terrible, terrible day.”

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Biden himself addressed the nation from the White House just hours after the shooting in an emotional and anger-tinged speech he said he’d hoped to never have to give.

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“I am sick and tired of it,” the president said. “We have to act. And don’t tell me we can’t have an impact on this carnage.”

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 25, 2022.

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