US President, Vice President Urged To Take Action Against Texas Shooting

Biden grieved and addressed the White House.

Washington: After the heart-wrenching incident where a gunman shot dead 18 young children at an elementary school in Texas, US President Joe Biden on Tuesday called for Americans to stand up against the country's powerful pro-gun lobby.

While addressing the White House, US president Biden said, "When, in God's name, are we going to stand up to the gun lobby."

"It's time to turn this pain into action for every parent, for every citizen of this country. We have to make it clear to every elected official in this country: it's time to act."

Biden marked his own experience with grief, having lost his first wife and young daughter in a car accident in 1972 and an adult son to cancer in 2015, news agency ANI reported.

"To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away," Biden grieved and shared. "There's a hollowness in your chest you feel like you're being sucked into it ... you're never quite the same," the president added.

Moreover, on Tuesday, US Vice President Kamala Harris said that "enough is enough" in the wake of the country's latest mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas that left 14 young children and a teacher dead.

"Our hearts keep getting broken," Harris said. "We have to have the courage to take action."

The attack by an 18-year-old gunman in Uvalde, Texas is the latest in a spree of deadly shootings in America where horror at the cycle of gun violence has failed to spur enough action to end it.

It was the worst shooting at an elementary school since the 2012 Sandy Hook attack in Connecticut, in which 20 children and six staff were killed, she added.