WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden renewed his call for a ban on assault weapons as he and his wife Jill held a White House event on Wednesday, May 24, to mourn the 21 victims shot dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, one year ago. The May 24, 2022, massacre, in which an 18-year-old gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle inside Robb Elementary School, killing 19 children and two teachers, marked the deadliest US school shooting in almost a decade. The assault ended when police officers who had waited more than an hour to storm in and directly confront the gunman – even as children hiding inside repeatedly called emergency-911 for help – finally charged into the classroom and shot the suspect dead.

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