For the second time in less than two weeks, President Biden on Tuesday tried to console a nation reeling from another mass shooting, demanding action on gun control and asking what it would take for lawmakers to stand up to gunmakers and lobbyists who he said have prevented “common-sense gun laws.”
“As a nation, we have to ask: When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name are we going to do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?” Biden said in an emotional, seven-minute prime-time address after his return from a five-day trip to South Korea and Japan.
The president’s comments came hours after a gunman killed at least 21 people, including 19 children, at Robb Elementary School in the small working-class city of Uvalde, Texas, about 80 miles west of San Antonio.
A visibly frustrated but somber Biden said he was “sick and tired” of mass shootings and declared it was “time to act.”
“How many scores of little children … witnessed what happened — see their friends die, as if they’re on a battlefield, for God’s sake?” he asked.
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