Crime and Public Safety

One by one, speakers took the stage at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention and denounced the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school across the state. And one by one, they insisted that changing U.S. gun laws or further restricting access to firearms was not the answer.

Authorities say officers waited in the hallway of a Texas elementary school for more than 45 minutes before agents used a master key to open a door and confront a gunman.

A student inside the classroom repeatedly called 911, at one point pleading to “please send the police now.”

"While a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and an NRA member, I would not want my appearance today to bring any additional pain or grief to the families and all those suffering in Uvalde,” Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick said in a statement.

Here’s a look at the gun control proposals under consideration — and others that are not — following the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting.

Patricia Krenwinkel, now 74, was previously denied parole 14 times after the slayings of pregnant actor Sharon Tate and four other people in 1969.

The White House said the Bidens would “grieve with the community that lost 21 lives in the horrific” shooting at Robb Elementary School.

A survivor of the Texas shooting at Robb Elementary school says gunman remarked to children "it's time to die" before he killed over 20 people

The father of an 11-year-old Robb Elementary School student in Uvalde, Texas, says his daughter is still shaken after watching her teacher and classmates get killed in front of her.

The gunman did not initially encounter any law enforcement officers when he entered Robb Elementary School and opened fire, killing 19 children and two teachers.

Despite the security measures in place, Salvador Ramos was able to get past a security officer, into an elementary school, and into a classroom full of children and their teachers.

A 28-year-old man is accused of killing his mother almost six years ago. Authorities found him alone in a life raft eight days after he and his mom left for a fishing trip.