An anguished and angry President Joe Biden is calling for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman massacred 18 children at a Texas elementary school.
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.
US President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving on Marine One in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. In a reminder of the issue's divisiveness, Biden's call for gun control on Tuesday was booed at a campaign event in Georgia hosted by Herschel Walker, a Republican running for U.S. Senate. Vice President Kamala Harris said earlier that people normally declare in moments like this, "our hearts break — but our hearts keep getting broken ... and our broken hearts are nothing compared to the broken hearts of those families." "We have to have the courage to take action ... to ensure something like this never happens again," she said. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden was briefed on the shooting aboard Air Force One. Shortly before landing in Washington, he spoke with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott from the presidential plane "to offer any and all assistance he needs in the wake of the horrific shooting in Uvalde, TX," White House communications director Kate Bedingfield tweeted. Biden directed that American flags be flown at half-staff through sunset Saturday in honor of the victims in Texas.
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