WASHINGTON, June 1 — US President Joe Biden said yesterday he planned to meet with lawmakers in Congress about guns after the Texas elementary school shooting last week in which 19 children and two teachers were killed.
Biden, who visited with families of the shooting victims in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday, said he thought he had been to more mass shooting aftermaths than any other US president. Ardern expressed condolences for victims of the shootings in Texas and a May 14 racist shooting in Buffalo that killed 10 people.
In the United States, US lawmakers have repeatedly failed to tighten gun laws after similar massacres over the past decade.