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  • Joe Biden reacts to Texas faculty taking pictures: ‘When in God’s identify are we going to face as much as the gun foyer?’

    Authorities mentioned an 18-year-old gunman opened hearth at an elementary faculty in south Texas, about 130 km west of San Antonio earlier than he apparently was killed by cops.

    “I hoped when I became president I would not have to do this, again,” a visibly shaken Biden mentioned, decrying the dying of “beautiful, innocent” second, third and fourth graders in “another massacre.”

    Their dad and mom “will never see their child again, never have them jump in bed and cuddle with them,” he mentioned.

    “As a nation, we have to ask, ‘When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?’”

    “We have to act,” he mentioned and steered reinstating the assault weapons ban and different “common-sense gun laws.”

    “I am sick and tired of it. We have to act,” President Biden says of mass shootings as he requires gun reform whereas addressing the nation after Tuesday’s mass taking pictures at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

    18 youngsters and one grownup have been killed. https://t.co/VTFAt3ELLK pic.twitter.com/QsO1Dwy53N

    — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 25, 2022

    The taking pictures palms Biden, already going through the bottom approval rankings of his presidency, one other disaster on high of 40-year excessive inflation charges and the struggle in Ukraine.

    A mass taking pictures in a Buffalo, New York, grocery retailer 10 days in the past elevated strain from backers of harder gun legal guidelines for the Biden administration to make good its vow to crack down on gun violence.

    When he ran for the White House, Biden promised to push gun security measures and scale back the nation’s tens of hundreds of annual gun deaths. Biden and his fellow Democrats have didn’t get sufficient votes in Congress for background checks for gun purchases or different proposed payments.

    The United States is essentially the most closely armed society on the earth, in line with the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey, a analysis group. Small, rural states the place gun possession is widespread have disproportionate affect within the US Senate, the place a supermajority of 60 votes is required to advance most laws within the 100-seat chamber.

    A lady cries as she leaves the Uvalde Civic Center on May 24, 2022.  (AP)

    Biden was briefed in regards to the taking pictures aboard Air Force One as he returned from a visit to Asia, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned on Twitter. He known as Texas Governor Greg Abbott to supply any help wanted.

    “His prayers are with the families impacted by this awful event,” Jean-Pierre mentioned.

    In a proclamation issued earlier than he landed, Biden ordered the flags on the White House and at U.S. federal and public buildings to be flown at half-staff till sundown on May 28.

  • US: 15 killed in Texas elementary faculty taking pictures, gunman useless

    Fourteen youngsters and one trainer had been killed in a taking pictures at a Texas elementary faculty Tuesday, and the 18-year-old gunman was useless, Gov. Greg Abbott stated Abbott stated an area man opened hearth at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, about 85 miles west of San Antonio

    ”He shot and killed, horrifically, incomprehensibly, 14 college students and killed a trainer,“ stated the governor.

    The gunman was a resident of the neighborhood and entered the college with a handgun, and presumably a rifle, and opened hearth, Abbott stated. He stated the shooter was doubtless killed by responding officers however that the occasions had been nonetheless being investigated.

    Uvalde Memorial Hospital stated earlier that 13 youngsters had been taken by ambulance or bus to that facility and one other hospital reported a 66-year-old lady was in important situation. It was not instantly clear how many individuals, along with the useless, had been injured within the taking pictures

    Earlier, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had stated an lively shooter was reported on the faculty, which has an enrollment of just below 600 college students.

    A heavy police presence surrounded the college Tuesday afternoon, with officers in heavy vests diverting site visitors and FBI brokers coming and going from the constructing. School and metropolis officers didn’t instantly return messages looking for remark.

    The district stated that the town’s civic heart was getting used as a reunification heart.

    The taking pictures in Texas got here lower than two weeks after a gunman opened hearth at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, killing 10 Black customers and staff in what officers have described as a hate crime.

    Uvalde is house to about 16,000 individuals and is the seat of presidency for Uvalde County. The city is about 75 miles from the border with Mexico. Robb Elementary is in a principally residential neighborhood of modest houses. There is a funeral house throughout the road from the college.