21 killed in Texas school shooting; gunman dead

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'How many more lives?': Reactions to Texas school shooting

People react outside the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, US, May 24, 2022. [Photo/Agencies]

US officials, members of Congress and other prominent Americans reacted to the Texas school shooting on Tuesday:

US PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN

"I hoped when I became president I would not have to do this, again," Biden said, decrying the death of "beautiful, innocent" second, third and fourth graders in "another massacre".

Their parents "will never see their child again, never have them jump in bed and cuddle with them," he said.

"We have to act," he said and suggested reinstating the assault weapons ban and other "common sense gun laws".

CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATIC SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY:

"We don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness because we're not an outlier on mental illness. ... We're an outlier when it comes to access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their arms on firearms. That's what makes America different."

WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATIC SENATOR JOE MANCHIN:

"That makes no sense at all, why we can't do common-sense, common-sense things and try to prevent some of this from happening."

PETE BUTTIGIEG, SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION:

"How many more lives? How many more children? And how much longer before we reject the choices that have made ours the one country where this happens routinely? It is not inevitable, it is horrific. It must end."

FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:

"Nearly ten years after Sandy Hook — and ten days after Buffalo — our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies. It's long past time for action, any kind of action. And it's another tragedy — a quieter but no less tragic one — for families to wait another day."

VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS:

"Enough is enough ... As a nation, we have to have the courage to take action and ... to ensure something like this never happens again."

FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON:

"Our elected leaders at the local, state and federal levels, regardless of party, must find common-sense ways to keep our children and communities safe. They can do so without touching the right to hunt, sport shoot, and keep guns for self-defense. Propaganda and paranoia have kept us from helping each other on this for too long. We can do - and be - better. The time to act is now."

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