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| The Texas school shooting has us all angry, sad, and just searching for answers. It's with that in mind that USA TODAY Opinion sought out and wrote a handful of columns after the news of the tragedy first broke Tuesday. |
| This evening we're going to focus on those columns. We hope everybody is safe and finding peace. |
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| By Nicole Hockley |
| I know the unspeakable pain that parents of children killed during Tuesday's Texas school shooting are experiencing right now. I also know what they will endure for the rest of their lives. |
| My son, Dylan, my beautiful butterfly, was ripped away from me in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting nearly 10 years ago. That day I sent him to school, and he never came home. |
| My heart bleeds for the parents whose children are not coming home and for the families of the adults who also won't be coming home. I'm overwhelmed with compassion for the Robb Elementary School community that will never be the same because of the void left by 19 innocent children and two adults. READ MORE |
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| By Rex Huppke |
| The words popped up: "School shooting." |
| Again? Hope it's not bad. Please don't let it be bad. As if a school shooting could be anything but bad. As if there should be varying degrees of such a thing. |
| Then the words: "elementary school." |
| Oh no. |
| Then, "two dead, maybe a dozen injured." |
| My god, these are children. |
| Then, by evening: "19 children and two adults at a small Texas elementary school were killed by a gunman Tuesday." |
| Damn it. READ MORE |
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| By Louie Villalobos |
 | | A prayer vigil for the victims of a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. | | (Billy Calzada/The San Antonio Express-News via AP | |
| Hours after 19 children were killed during a Texas elementary school mass shooting, Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, made an impassioned plea from the Senate floor for members of Congress to do something. |
| In his speech, Murphy begs senators to take action, any action, to help the country wrestle with shootings. |
| He repeats a question that I would guess many, if not most, Americans are asking this morning. It's one that has haunted me for decades. |
| "What are we doing?" Murphy asked. "Days after a shooter walked into a grocery store to gun down African American patrons we have another Sandy Hook on our hands. What are we doing?" |
| Senator, I can help with that. We're doing nothing. READ MORE |
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