As families and loved ones mourn the unimaginable loss of 19 children and two teachers shot dead last year in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. President Joe Biden said from a solemn White House memorial that too many schools, too many everyday places have become 'killing fields.'
As families and loved ones mourn the unimaginable loss of 19 children and two teachers shot dead last year in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. President Joe Biden said from a solemn White House memorial that too many schools, too many everyday places have become "killing fields."
Biden spoke of how he stood in Uvalde a few days later, staring at 21 crosses outside the school with the names of victims. He said they spent hours with the grieving families. "Too many schools, too many everyday places have become killing fields in communities across America. And in each place, we hear the same message: Do something. For God's sake, just do something," Biden said. "We did something afterwards, but not nearly enough."
Each victim was memorialized with a speech, describing who they were and the loved ones they left behind. "I pray that in all of our differences, we aspire to our better angels, perhaps remember those moments when we were little," Gutierrez said. "Look at the pictures of these children and remember our better angels."
Yet since that bill signing last summer, the tally of mass shootings in the United States has only grown. Five dead at a nightclub in Colorado. Eleven killed at a dance hall in California. Three 9-year-olds and three adults shot and killed at an elementary school in Nashville, Tenn. Seven shot dead in rural Oklahoma.
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