Biden Visits Uvalde, Ensures The Crowd To Stop The Terror, "We Will, We Will"

"We need changes," shouted a man, when Biden visited Uvalde

Ahead of the Texas School Massacre, pleas for a stop to the gun massacres plaguing the United States rang out Sunday during President Joe Biden's visit to Uvalde, where he prayed for the 19 children and two teachers killed by a teen gunman in the small Texas town.

"Do something!" rang out shouts from a crowd in the street as Biden left Sacred Heart church where he attended Mass with mourning relatives.

While responding to the crowd, President Biden ensured before heading to private meetings with relatives of the dead and with first responders and said, "We will. We will."

Biden, accompanied by his wife, Jill Biden, was in Uvalde less than two weeks after making a similar trip to the site of another mass shooting -- this time targeting African Americans in a racist attack -- in Buffalo, New York.

The first couple began by visiting a makeshift shrine at Robb Elementary School, where the teen gunman walked in with an AR-15-type semi-automatic and began his slaughter last Tuesday.

Both wearing black, the Bidens held hands in front of the memorial, walking slowly along the thicket of wreaths, bouquets, white crosses and blown-up photos of the killed children.

Biden, whose adult son Beau died seven years ago this Monday from cancer, and whose first wife and infant daughter perished in a car accident, made the sign of the cross, appearing to wipe away a tear.

The arrival of the Bidens' motorcade at the school was met with applause from a crowd. However, illustrating the tension in the town, there were boos at the appearance of Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who strongly opposes new restrictions on gun ownership.

"We need changes," shouted one man.

"Our hearts are broken," Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller said at the church.

Biden was not scheduled to speak publicly in Texas, but on Saturday he renewed his so-far fruitless call for Congress to overcome years of paralysis to toughen firearms regulations -- especially on weapons like the AR-15.

"We cannot outlaw tragedy, I know, but we can make America safer," Biden said.