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A shooting at an elementary school in the United States killed 21 people, including 19 children.
The perpetrator was an 18-year-old high school student who was shot and killed by the police at the scene.
Let's look at the New York Correspondent Kim Jong-won's report first, and then we'll connect to the US.
<Reporter>
Elementary school in Yuvaldi, a small town in Texas.
A man dressed in black rushes into the building with a rifle in his hand.
The shooter then opened fire in a classroom during a class, killing 19 children between the ages of 7 and 10 and two adults, including a teacher.
[Texas Police: Unfortunately, the shooter managed to break into the school building, and then started shooting around several classes.]
The shooter was Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old high school student, who first shot his grandmother and then drove the car. It was investigated that while running, the car fell into the drain in front of the elementary school where the incident took place, and he got off with a rifle and a pistol and broke into the school.
After the shooting, Ramos was killed at the scene after being shot by a police officer while fighting the police in a classroom.
The state of Texas allows gun purchases from the age of 18, but it was revealed that Ramos had purchased two of those rifles from his gun store two days before his 18th birthday.
Upon arriving in the United States, President Biden held a press conference and called for gun control as soon as he arrived in the United States, after receiving a report of the incident from the presidential plane returning from a trip to Korea and Japan.
[Joe Biden/President of the United States: When are you going to fight the gun companies lobby?
Now I'm fed up with this case.
Now is the time to act.]
In public offices across the United States, at President Biden's direction, flags have been hung to pay tribute to the victims.
(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, Video editing: Jo Moo-hwan, Source: Elsa G Ruiz Facebook)
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Correspondent Kim Jong-won, I think the United States must have been in quite a shock because there are many victims and most of them are children. What do you think?
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Yes, the police have been investigating since immediately after the incident, but the motive for the crime is still unknown.
Just 10 days after the shooting at a Buffalo Mart in New York, where 10 people were killed, the US was literally in shock as this incident happened again.
In particular, in 2012, there was a shooting that killed 20 children and 6 adults at an elementary school in Connecticut, the eastern part of the United States. .
Today (25th) American news reported the Texas shooting with emergency breaking news all day long, and CBS, the American broadcaster, even canceled the last episode of a popular drama about a student committing a robbery.
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President Biden also urged immediate gun control, what kind of stories are coming out in America right now?
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Yes, at the time of the Buffalo shooting about 10 days ago, President Biden did not say a word about gun control.
However, today's shootings have sparked a heated debate about gun control in the political arena.
As we saw in the previous report, following President Biden's strong call for gun control, Vice President Harris also spoke in a speech, emphasizing that it's time to act.
Let's hear it.
[Kamala Harris/Vice President of the United States: We must stop now.
I have to stop now.
Now, we must all have the courage to act.] The
US Senate has been calling all day for lax gun control, especially against Republicans.
[Senator Chris Murphy/Democrat: What are we doing now?
If even these existential problems cannot be solved, why are we here?
This incident is the only one in the world that only takes place in the United States.]
The fact that the Texas governor, where the incident took place, encouraged residents to buy guns through Twitter in the past, was criticized as attention was paid to later.