President again calls on Congress to pass assault weapons ban, saying we ‘need to do more to protect our schools’
The White House led reactions in a shocked America with a call for tightening gun control in the US after a 28-year-old woman opened fire at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, killing six, including three children.
“While you’ve been in this room, I don’t know whether you’ve been on your phones, but we just learned about another shooting in Tennessee – a school shooting – and I am truly without words,” first lady Jill Biden said at an event in Washington as reports of the shooting at the Covenant School began circulating.
“Our children deserve better. And we stand, all of us, we stand with Nashville in prayer,” she added.
President Joe Biden addressed the mass school shooting soon after, and reiterated his calls to Congress to take legislative action.
Biden called the shooting “heartbreaking, a family’s worst nightmare”. He said more needs to be done to stop gun violence.
“It’s ripping our communities apart,” he said, and called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban, saying we “need to do more to protect our schools”.
“It’s about time we began to make some more progress,” he added.
