President Joe Biden on Wednesday said the US “should have societal guilt” from not passing meaningful gun control legislation a full decade after a gunman used a high-powered rifle and high-capacity magazine to murder 20 young students and six staff members at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school.
“Ten years ago today at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, our nation watched as the unthinkable happened. Twenty young children with their whole lives ahead of them. Six educators who gave their lives protecting their students. And countless survivors who still carry the wounds of that day,” said Mr Biden, who added that America should bear the guilt as a society for “taking too long to deal with this problem”.
