Heartbroken Texas school 大虐殺 town begs Biden to 'do something'

US President Joe Biden, with his wife Jill, embraces Mandy Gutierrez, the principal of Robb Elementary School

US 大統領 Joe Biden, with his wife Jill, embraces Mandy Gutierrez, the 主要な/長/主犯 of Robb Elementary School

Desperate 嘆願s for a stop to the gun 大虐殺s 疫病/悩ますing the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs rang out Sunday during 大統領 Joe Biden's visit to Uvalde, where he prayed for the 19 children and two teachers 殺害された by a teen 銃器携帯者/殺しや in the small Texas town.

"Do something!" rang out shouts from a (人が)群がる in the street as Biden left Sacred Heart Church where he …に出席するd 集まり with 嘆く/悼むing 親族s.

"We will. We will," Biden 答える/応じるd to the (人が)群がる, before 長,率いるing to 私的な 会合s with 親族s of the dead and with first responders.

Biden, …を伴ってd by his wife, Jill Biden, was in Uvalde いっそう少なく than two weeks after making a 類似の trip to the 場所/位置 of another 集まり 狙撃 -- this time 的ing African Americans in a 人種差別主義者 attack -- in Buffalo, New York.

The first couple began by visiting a 一時しのぎの物,策 神社 at Robb Elementary School, where last Tuesday the teen 銃器携帯者/殺しや walked in with an AR-15-type 半分-(a)自動的な/(n)自動拳銃 and began his 虐殺(する).

US President Joe Biden responded to a crowd urging him to 'do something,' promising, 'we will'

US 大統領 Joe Biden 答える/応じるd to a (人が)群がる 勧めるing him to 'do something,' 約束ing, 'we will'

Both wearing 黒人/ボイコット, the Bidens held 手渡すs in 前線 of the 記念の, walking slowly along the thicket of 花冠s, bouquets, white crosses and blown-up photos of the 殺害された children.

Biden, whose adult son Beau died seven years ago this Monday from 癌, and whose first wife and 幼児 daughter 死なせる/死ぬd in a car 事故, made the 調印する of the cross, appearing to wipe away a 涙/ほころび.

The arrival of the Bidens' motorcade at the school was met with 賞賛 from a (人が)群がる. However, illustrating the 緊張 in the town, there were boos at the 外見 of 共和国の/共和党の Texas 知事 Greg Abbott, who 堅固に …に反対するs new 制限s on gun 所有権.

"We need changes," shouted one man.

"Our hearts are broken," 大司教 Gustavo Garcia-Siller said at the church.

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden walk along the line of crosses, flowers and portraits

US 大統領 Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden walk along the line of crosses, flowers and portraits

Biden was not scheduled to speak 公然と in Texas, but on Saturday he 新たにするd his so-far fruitless call for 議会 to 打ち勝つ years of paralysis to toughen 小火器 規則s -- 特に on 武器s like the AR-15.

"We cannot 無法者 悲劇, I know, but we can make America safer," Biden said.

Ricardo Garcia, who 作品 at Uvalde's hospital, said he was "栄誉(を受ける)d" Biden (機の)カム to visit his town, but 手配中の,お尋ね者 to see more 活動/戦闘 on 銃砲規制.

The 47-year-old was at work on Tuesday when first responders brought in children from Robb.

"I just can't get out of my mind that 叫び声をあげるing in the halls from the moms when they got the bad news," Garcia said. "It's still there. I can't sleep at night."

- 司法(官) Department 調査(する)s police -

Harrowing accounts 現れるd of the ordeal 直面するd by 生存者s of Tuesday's attack, where the 行為 of the police is under 厳しい scrutiny.

Ten-year-old Samuel Salinas was sitting in his fourth-grade classroom when the shooter, later identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, 船d in and 発表するd: "You're all going to die."

US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden attend mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Uvalde, Texas

US 大統領 Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden …に出席する 集まり at Sacred Heart カトリック教徒 Church in Uvalde, Texas

Then "he just started 狙撃," Salinas told ABC News.

Texas 当局 認める Friday that as many as 19 police officers were in the school hallway for nearly an hour before finally 違反ing the room and 殺人,大当り Ramos, 説 the officers 誤った thought that he had stopped 殺人,大当り and was now バリケードd.

Parents have 表明するd fury and on Sunday the 司法(官) Department 発表するd an 調査 "to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first responders 準備する."

生き残るing children 述べるd making desperate, whispered 嘆願s for help in 911 phone calls while police waited.

Some played dead to 避ける 製図/抽選 the shooter's attention. Eleven-year-old Miah Cerrillo smeared the 血 of a dead friend on herself to feign death.

A child writes a message for her friend who was killed in the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas

A child 令状s a message for her friend who was killed in the 集まり 狙撃 in Uvalde, Texas

Salinas said he thinks Ramos 解雇する/砲火/射撃d at him, but the 弾丸 struck a 議長,司会を務める, sending shrapnel into the boy's 脚. "I played dead so he wouldn't shoot me," he said.

Another student, Daniel, whose mother would not 供給する his last 指名する, said he saw Ramos 解雇する/砲火/射撃 through the glass in the classroom door, striking his teacher.

Though his teacher lay on the 床に打ち倒す bleeding, she 繰り返して told the students, "'Stay 静める. Stay where you are. Don't move,'" Daniel told The Washington 地位,任命する.

- 'Have the courage' -

副大統領 Kamala Harris on Saturday …に出席するd the funeral of a 犠牲者 of the Buffalo 集まり 狙撃 -- Ruth Whitfield, who was の中で 10 people killed on May 14, 恐らく by a self-述べるd white supremacist.

A map and important facts related to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas

A 地図/計画する and important facts 関係のある to the school 狙撃 in Uvalde, Texas

"議会 must have the courage to stand up, once and for all, to the gun ロビー and pass reasonable gun safety 法律s," Harris tweeted.

The Uvalde 狙撃 was the deadliest school attack since 20 children and six staff were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.

Bu t 議会 has 繰り返して failed to agree on possible new gun 規則s.

This time might be different, some 国会議員s say.

Democratic Connecticut 上院議員 Chris Murphy said Sunday there were "serious 交渉s" 進行中で 伴う/関わるing members of both parties.

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