President Joe Biden opened his remarks from the White House Tuesday night with a deep sigh, after a shooter killed at least 18 children and two adults at an elementary school in Texas.
at an elementary school in Texas. It was a sigh indicative of a fresh horror and yet, an all-too familiar one.
"I had hoped when I became president, I would not have to do this — again," the president said, with longtime teacher first lady Jill Biden at his side."Another massacre. Uvalde, Texas. An elementary school. Beautiful, innocent second, third and fourth graders. And 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. They'll live with it the rest of their lives.
Tuesday's mass shooting took place at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on the students' last week of school before summer break. Mr. Biden was on his way back from Asia when it happened, and after he was briefed, he ordered the flags at the White House and all other federal buildings to be flown at half-staff.
"What struck me on that 17-hour flight what struck me was these kinds of mass shootings rarely happen anywhere else in the world. Why?" the president questioned."They have mental health problems. They have domestic disputes in other countries. They have people who are lost, but these kinds of mass shootings never happen with the kind of frequency they happen in America.
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