Joe Biden Going To Texas In “Coming Days” To Meet With Latest School Shooting Victims’ Families
deadline.comFor the second time in less than two weeks, President Joe Biden will personally go to the site of a fatal mass shooting in America.“Jill and I will be traveling to Texas in the coming days to meet with the families and let them know we have a sense of their pain, and hopefully bring some little comfort to a community in shock, in grief and in trauma,” a clearly anguished Commander-in-chief told a gathering at the White House today. “I think we all must be for them, everyone,” Biden added.
On Tuesday, an 18-year-old gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, west of San Antonio and killed 19 fourth-grade students, a teacher and another adult.
The nation’s 212th mass shooting this year, the Lone Star state tragedy also saw 17 other individuals injured. The killings come after an 18-year old white nationalist murdered 13 people at a Tops Friendly Market in a African-American neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.
The President and the First Lady travelled to the Empire State site to pay their respects and privately meet with mourning families on May 17.
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