United States President Joe Biden has urged Americans to turn their “pain into action” after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, left at least 19 students and two teachers dead.
In an emotional speech from the White House Tuesday, Biden said it was time for “every parent, every citizen of this country” to push for “common sense gun laws.”
Speaking from the White House Roosevelt Room with First Lady Jill Biden clad in black by his side, the president also said: “Uvalde, Texas. An elementary school. Beautiful innocent, second, third, fourth graders.
“And how many scores of little children who witnessed what happen – see their friends die as if they’re on a battlefield, for God’s sake?”
The shooter in the deadly attack was fatally shot by law enforcement officers responding to the shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.
Tributes and messages of support have poured in from around the world in the wake of the school shooting, including from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who said “the people of Ukraine share the pain” of those impacted by the shooting.
By: NBC News
