He ended his speech by reflecting on those families that now mourn a child after Tuesday's violence. It's not effective."īiden, however, remained undeterred in his belief that stricter gun policy would help save lives in the future. "You see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens. "Inevitably when there's a murder of this kind, you see politicians try to politicize it," Cruz said. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said that reforming gun laws is not the solution to what he called "yet another act of evil and mass murder." "It is time for all in Congress to heed the will of the American people and join in enacting the House-passed bipartisan, commonsense, life-saving legislation into law." "For too long, some in Congress have offered hollow words after these shootings while opposing all efforts to save lives," Pelosi said in a statement. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the shooting, a "cold-blooded massacre." "We don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world." "We have mass shooting after mass shooting and, you know, spare me the bullshit about mental illness," Murphy told reporters. On his way off the Senate floor, Murphy scoffed at the idea, routinely raised by Republican lawmakers after mass shootings, that the problem was mental illness, not the widespread prevalence of firearms in America. flag be flown at half staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds. Earlier in the evening, he ordered that the U.S.
"Tonight, I ask the nation to pray for them," he said. The president, who lost a young daughter in a car accident and an adult son to cancer, told parents of the victims that losing a child is "like having a piece of your soul ripped away." The mass casualty incident was first reported shortly after 11:30 a.m. Previous reports had indicated that 18 kids and as many as three adults had been killed. Texas state police told NBC News later Tuesday that the shooter killed at least 19 kids and two adults. The video uploaded online shows Mr Cruz attempting to embrace his daughter, Caroline, as she tries to squirm away and flick. The shooting rocked the nation and the roughly 15,200 residents of Uvalde, which is located about 80 miles west of San Antonio and just over an hour's drive to the Mexico border. Trump-Cruz bromance over as the ‘angry ones’ take their gloves off. The suspected shooter, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was fatally wounded by police who responded to the attack at Robb Elementary School, according to Texas Gov.
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