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Nashville Christian school shooter kills six people

In the United States a former student armed with a handgun and two automatic rifle-style weapons has killed six people including three children aged 9 in the city of Nashville, Tennessee. The suspected assailant - identified as 28-year-old Audrey Hale - was shot dead according to a Nashville Police department spokesman.

大象传媒 Newsday heard more details from Holly McCall, Editor-in-Chief of Tennessee Lookout, a non-partisan news site in the state.

鈥淎merica has got a problem with guns. There's just no will to change this. Our debate over gun control was apparently over in late 2012 when there were a number of kids killed in Connecticut and we did not seem to think that killing kids from weapons was bad enough to do anything.鈥

(Pic: Students from the Covenant School hold hands after getting off a bus to meet their parents at the reunification site following a mass shooting at the school in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; Credit: Reuters)

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