Jill Biden, a lifelong teacher who recently mourned the 21 pupils and teachers killed at a Texas elementary school, issued a passionate call on Friday for parents and teachers to “speak up” and demand that Congress pass “common sense” gun safety measures.
“There are no excuses. It's up to Congress to act,” the first lady said in a speech to the National PTA Convention meeting in a Maryland suburb of Washington. “And they represent the will of the people and that's why we need the people to speak up. Parents and teachers, all of us.”
