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‘WHY ARE WE WILLING TO LIVE WITH THIS CARNAGE?’ BIDEN PUSHES TO TIGHTEN GUN LAWS
AFTER TEXAS SCHOOL SHOOTING

Published Tue, May 24 20226:56 PM EDTUpdated 23 Min Ago
Thomas Franck@tomwfranck
Dan Mangan@_DanMangan
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Key Points
 * U.S. President Joe Biden renewed the Democrats’ push for tighter gun control
   laws Tuesday night, following a mass shooting at an elementary school in
   Uvalde, Texas.
 * “To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away,” the
   president said. “Tonight, I ask the nation to pray for them.”
 * The suspected shooter was fatally wounded in the law enforcement response to
   the attack at Robb Elementary School, located about 83 miles southwest of San
   Antonio.

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Biden: Why are we willing to live with this carnage?
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U.S. President Joe Biden renewed the Democrats’ push for tighter gun control
laws Tuesday night, hours after a lone gunman killed at least 19 children and
two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.

“We as a nation have to ask when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the
gun lobby. When in God’s name do we do what we all know in our gut needs to be
done?” Biden asked in a somber address following another school massacre that
evoked the pain of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting of 2012.



The suspected shooter, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was fatally
wounded by police who responded to the attack at Robb Elementary School,
according to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The shooting rocked the nation and the
roughly 15,200 residents of Uvalde, which is located about 80 miles west of San
Antonio and just over an hour’s drive to the Mexico border.

Texas state police told NBC News later Tuesday that the shooter killed at least
19 kids and two adults. Previous reports had indicated that 18 kids and as many
as three adults had been killed. 

The mass casualty incident was first reported shortly after 11:30 a.m. Tuesday
morning.

The president, who lost a young daughter in a car accident and an adult son to
cancer, told parents of the victims that losing a child is “like having a piece
of your soul ripped away.”

“Tonight, I ask the nation to pray for them,” he said. Earlier in the evening,
he ordered that the U.S. flag be flown at half staff at the White House and upon
all public buildings and grounds.



Biden unleashed anger on the U.S. gun industry, which he blamed for years of
stalled progress on gun control measures on the floor on the U.S. Congress.

Biden spoke to Abbott and offered “any and all assistance he needs” to respond
to the shooting, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said in a
tweet.


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The school shooting evoked horrific memories of the massacre at Sandy Hook
Elementary in Newtown, Conn. that left 20 kids and six adults dead and the
Columbine High School shooting of 1999 that killed 12 students and one teacher.

The Uvalde massacre is the second mass shooting to rock the country in 10 days
following an attack at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York.

Elected officials from across the country sent an outpouring of sympathy to the
victims of the shooting. Supporters of stricter gun safety measures expressed
outrage that a killer used firearms in yet another school massacre.

Vice President Kamala Harris called for “sensible public policy”

“I would normally say in a moment like this — we would all say naturally — that
our hearts break. But our hearts keep getting broken,” she said. “As a nation,
we have to have the courage to take action and understand the nexus between what
makes for reasonable and sensible public policy to ensure something like this
never happens again.”

VIDEO2:5702:57
Sen. Chris Murphy pleads for something to be done about these shootings
The News with Shepard Smith


In a speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, urged his colleagues
to take meaningful action to address gun violence.

“Why do you spend all this time running for the United States Senate, why do you
go through all the hassle of getting this job, of putting yourself in position
of authority if your answer as the slaughter increases, as our kids run for
their lives, we do nothing?” asked Murphy, who in 2012 represented the U.S.
House district where a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy
Hook.

“What are we doing? Why are you here if not to solve a problem as existential as
this?” he added.

“I’m here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees and
beg my colleagues,” Murphy said. “Find a path forward here. Work with us to find
a way to pass laws that make this less likely.”

The American flag flies at half-staff at the White House in Washington, DC.
Drew Angerer | Getty Images

On his way off the Senate floor, Murphy scoffed at the idea, routinely raised by
Republican lawmakers after mass shootings, that the problem was mental illness,
not the widespread prevalence of firearms in America.

“We have mass shooting after mass shooting and, you know, spare me the bullshit
about mental illness,” Murphy told reporters. “We don’t have any more mental
illness than any other country in the world.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the shooting, a “cold-blooded
massacre.”

“For too long, some in Congress have offered hollow words after these shootings
while opposing all efforts to save lives,” Pelosi said in a statement. “It is
time for all in Congress to heed the will of the American people and join in
enacting the House-passed bipartisan, commonsense, life-saving legislation into
law.”

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said that reforming gun laws is not the solution to what
he called “yet another act of evil and mass murder.”

“Inevitably when there’s a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to
politicize it,” Cruz said. “You see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media
whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law
abiding citizens. That doesn’t work. It’s not effective.”

Biden, however, remained undeterred in his belief that stricter gun policy would
help save lives in the future. He ended his speech by reflecting on those
families that now mourn a child after Tuesday’s violence.

“Our prayer tonight is those parents lying in bed trying to figure out, ’will I
be able to sleep again? What do I say to my other children? What happens
tomorrow?” the president said.


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