Good morning. “As a country, we have been through this too many times,” the president said. “These children are our children. And we’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.”
Those were Barack Obama’s words almost a decade ago, in response to the Sandy Hook massacre. Last night, Joe Biden said almost the same thing. He spoke at the White House after 21 people were shot dead at a Texas elementary school, 19 of them children. The toll is second only to Sandy Hook in the horrifying history of US school shootings. The attack was the 27th school shooting this year. And it comes 10 days after a racist gunman killed 13 people in Buffalo, New York.
