As federal investigators search for a motive in the deadly attack, hundreds of people also attended an emotional funeral service in Texas for a Pakistani exchange student, one of 10 people killed in Friday's rampage.
At least 10 people were killed and 10 others injured in Texas on Friday after a gunman armed with a shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver opened fire at the Santa Fe High School.
With Republican control of the US Congress up for grabs in November's midterm elections, President Trump used the National Rifle Association's convention as a platform to return to rhetoric he used in 2016 to excite pro-gun voters.
The father of a 17-year old girl who died in the Florida school attack wants to let people know that the sheriff's deputy who failed to enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is a coward.
Student survivors of last month's shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida are set to join thousands others in Washington in what is expected to be their biggest demonstration yet to demand reforms in gun laws.
The Parkland school shooting that killed 17 students and staff last month has revitalised the debate over gun ownership across the US.
Ten people were also injured when a newly installed 950-tonne pedestrian bridge collapsed, trapping at least eight cars below, officials say.
Nikolas Cruz has been indicted on 17 counts of premeditated murder in the first degree and 17 counts of attempted murder, but its the calls to 911 that reveal much of that tragic day.
Florida state lawmakers give final passage to a gun-safety package that raises the legal age for buying rifles and imposes a three-day waiting period on all firearms sales, while also allowing the arming of some public school personnel.
Police says 53-year-old Jesse Randal Davidson didn't appear to want to hurt the students or faculty. He fired the gun at an exterior window when the principal tried to enter the classroom.
The debate in the US about gun control can be narrowed down to a single question: should a child's right to life be trumped by the right to own a gun?
US President Donald Trump's remarks came after he had criticised an armed deputy for not confronting the suspect in the February 14 mass shooting, calling him a "coward."
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