WATCH LIVE: President Biden speaks following deadly elementary school shooting in Uvalde
President Joe Biden arrives at the White House, in Washington, from his Asian trip, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Biden will speak to the nation to address the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, later in the evening. – An anguished and angry President Joe Biden called for new restrictions on firearms Tuesday night after a gunman“We have to act,” Biden told the nation, after years of failure to pass new laws.
With first lady Jill Biden standing by his side in the Roosevelt Room, the president said, “It’s time we turned this pain into action.” The back-to-back tragedies served as sobering reminders of the frequency and brutality of an American epidemic of mass gun violence.It's unclear if the latest tragedy will change the political dynamic around guns after so many others — including the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that killed 26, including 20 children — failed to do so.
“We have to have the courage to take action ... to ensure something like this never happens again,” she said.
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