Biden asks America: ‘Why are we willing to live with this carnage?’

Biden asks America: ‘Why are we willing to live with this carnage?’

Does it really need to be like this? Should going to school be an occupational hazard for the sake of the Second Amendment?

'Why are we willing to live with this carnage?': POTUS remarks on worst school shooting since Sandy Hook

President Joe Biden arrived at the White House at 7:18 PM ET Tuesday evening after a five-day trip to Asia. About 75 minutes later he stood before television cameras in the Roosevelt Room and asked America, “When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?”

Biden on Texas mass shooting: "Why are we willing to live with this carnage?"

In a brief address Tuesday night, following the senseless massacre of at least 18 children and a teacher at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas, a beleaguered Joe Biden asked the nation “when in God’s name” America would stand up to the gun lobby. He mourned “beautiful, innocent, second, third, fourth graders” and spoke of the scores of children at the school who saw their friends “die as if they are on the battlefield.” Biden also spoke as an adul…

Biden On Texas School Shooting: 'Why Are We Willing To Live With This Carnage?'

At least 18 young students and three adults were killed after a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Watch President Joe Biden’s on Texas school shooting: ‘Why are we willing to live with this carnage?’

(Update: Watch President Joe Biden’s comments above. They start at the 46:35 mark of the stream.)

Texas Shooting | Biden: “Why are we willing to live with this carnage?”

El presidente de EEUU pide tras el último tiroteo escolar “transformar el dolor en acción” y urge a “plantarse” ante la industria y el lobi de las armas