US President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman killed at least 18 children and three adults at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday. “When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?,” Mr Biden said at the White House shortly after returning from a five-day trip to Asia that was bookended by tragedy.
With First Lady Jill Biden standing by his side in the Roosevelt Room, Mr Biden added: “I am sick and tired. We have to act.” At least 18 students were killed, according to a state senator who said he was briefed by law enforcement, in addition to a teacher.
Just two days before Mr Biden left on his trip, he met with victims’ families after a hate-motivated shooter killed 10 black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.
The back-to-back tragedies served as sobering reminders of the frequency and brutality of an American epidemic of mass gun violence. “These kinds of mass shootings rarely happen anywhere else in the world,” Mr Biden said. “Why?” He directed that American flags be flown at half-staff through sunset on Saturday in honour of the victims in Texas.
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