President Joe Biden spoke out following Tuesday's shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. 'I had hoped when I became president I would not have to do this again,' he began his nearly eight-minute address.
"I had hoped when I became president I would not have to do this again, another massacre in Uvalde, Texas. An elementary school. Beautiful, innocent second, third, and fourth graders. How many scores of little children who witnessed what happened, see their friends die, as if they're in a battlefield for God's sake," President Biden began his nearly eight-minute address.You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications.
"As a nation, we have to ask, when in God's name are we going to stand up to gun lobbying? When in God's name will we do what we all know in our gut that needs to be done?" said President Biden, recalling some of the deadliest mass shootings at schools across the country in the last decade, including the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School."I am sick and tired of it. We have to act.
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