Biden demands gun control legislation & blames the gun lobby

President of the United States Joe Biden urged Americans to stand up to the gun lobby and urged members of Congress to approve quick gun control legislation, citing the need for “reasonable gun regulations” in the aftermath of the Texas school shooting in which 21 people were slain, including 18 children.

As a nation we must ask: When in God’s name will we stand up to the gun lobby?

When in God’s name will we do what needs to be done?

I’m sick and tired of it. We have to act.

— President Biden (@POTUS) May 25, 2022

“Mass shootings decreased when we passed the Assault Weapons Ban (in 1994), but they tripled when the law expired [in 2004]. The idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy assault weapons is just wrong,” the US President said hours after one of the deadliest school shootings in Texas.

“It’s time for those who have struck, delayed, or blocked common-sense gun measures to know that we will not forget,” he added, pointing to members of Congress.

In his remarks to the press, Biden expressed his hope that if elected President, he would not have to go through this again.

Biden spoke from personal experience, having lost his first wife and little daughter in a car accident in 1972 and an adult son to cancer in 2015.

“Losing a child is like losing a piece of your soul,” he explained.

“You feel like you’re being pulled into a hollowness in your chest… you’re never quite the same.”

Tonight, there are parents who will never see their child again. Parents who will never be the same.

To lose a child is to have a piece of your soul ripped away forever.

I ask the nation to pray for them — to give them strength in the darkness.

— President Biden (@POTUS) May 25, 2022

The president of the United States has requested the nation to pray for them and to “give the parents and siblings strength in the darkness they are experiencing as a nation.”

“Since then, there have been over 900 cases of gun firing reported on school grounds,” President Trump remarked, referring to the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.

He mentioned the shooting in Buffalo 10 days ago, lamenting the fact that an 18-year-old was able to obtain a pistol and perpetrate such horrible atrocities in both situations.

These kinds of mass shootings rarely happen elsewhere in the world.

Why are we willing to live with this carnage? Why do we keep letting this happen? Where in God’s name is our backbone to have the courage to deal with it?

It’s time to turn this pain into action.

— President Biden (@POTUS) May 25, 2022

Biden was briefed about the shooting earlier in the day aboard Air Force One as he returned from a trip to Asia, according to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

He reached out to Texas Governor Greg Abbott to offer any support that could be required.

‘His thoughts and prayers are with the families who have been affected by this tragic occurrence,’ Jean-Pierre said.