President Joe Biden will travel to Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday, less than a week after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults at a local elementary school in the second deadliest school shooting in the U.S.
The White House released a brief statement on Thursday announcing the President’s plans to “travel to Uvalde, Texas to grieve with the community that lost twenty-one lives in the horrific elementary school shooting,” according to CNBC. The President addressed the tragedy in remarks from the White House on Tuesday night, hours after the shooting took place.
“I had hoped, when I became President, I would not have to do this again,” Biden said. “Another massacre. Uvalde, Texas. An elementary school. Beautiful, innocent second, third, fourth graders. And how many scores of little children who witnessed what happened see their friends die as if they’re on a battlefield, for God’s sake. They’ll live with it the rest of their lives.”
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