‘I am truly without words’: Jill Biden reacts to news six were killed in Nashville school shooting

The White Home mentioned ‘sufficient is sufficient’ after the most recent mass taking pictures at an American faculty  – this time at an elementary faculty outdoors Nashville.

‘What we’re seeing at faculties and communities throughout this nation is unacceptable,’ mentioned White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. 

‘What we noticed right now is devastating, is heartbreaking for any American,’ she added, noting that President Joe Biden will handle the taking pictures throughout prescheduled remarks later Monday afternoon. 

She referred to as the information ‘devastating’ and ‘heartbreaking for any American,’ however did not present concrete info on any new government orders President Biden could be planning. She made repeated reference to stalled legislative proposals in Congress.

Her official response was buttressed by remarks by First Woman Jill Biden, who spoke to a convention in Washington Monday. Biden she is ‘with out phrases’ as she turned the primary individual within the White House to publicly react to information of a faculty taking pictures in Nashville that left three kids useless. 

The primary woman spoke as new particulars had been rising in regards to the newest mass taking pictures to depart younger kids useless in school, prompting the White Home to say Monday that ‘sufficient is sufficient.’ 

‘I’m actually with out phrases, and our kids deserve higher. We stand with Nashville in prayer,’ Biden mentioned throughout an handle on the Nationwide League of Cities convention. 

Six individuals – together with three kids – are useless after 28-year-old feminine shooter opened hearth at a non-public faculty in Nashville.

First Woman Jill Biden mentioned she is ‘with out phrases’ as she was the primary individual within the White Home to publicly react to information of a faculty taking pictures in Nashville that left three kids useless

The incident came about on the Covenant College, an elementary faculty on the outskirts of the town.

On the White Home, Jean-Pierre spoke in regards to the tragic taking pictures on the high of her each day press briefing and fielded quite a few questions on it, amid a years-long stalemate in Congress and the expiration of an assault weapons ban that had been regulation however expired. 

She pointed to government motion President Joe Biden took after two earlier mass shootings, however used stark language to name on Congress to do extra legislatively. 

‘It’s not sufficient. We should do extra,’ she mentioned. She mentioned Biden ‘needs Congress to behave, as a result of sufficient is sufficient.’

‘What number of extra kids should be murdered earlier than Republicans in Congress will step as much as go the assault weapons ban, to shut loopholes … or to require the secure storage of weapons?’ mentioned Jean-Pierre.

Biden helped lead the hassle for an semi-automatic assault weapons and excessive capability journal ban in 1994, however that laws expired in 2004.  

She mentioned Biden had been briefed on the ‘heartbreaking’ information of the taking pictures. She expressed the president’s ‘appreciation for first responders and prayers for all of the households affected by the taking pictures.’

‘Too typically our faculties and communities are being devastated’ by gun violence, she mentioned.

‘Faculties needs to be secure areas for our children to develop and be taught and for our educators to show,’ she mentioned.

She referenced 4 parts of laws: background checks for all gun gross sales (coping with the so-called gun present loophole; background checks on all gross sales; laws on high-capacity magazines; and eliminating legal responsibility from go well with for gun producers.

‘These are issues that they’ll do,’ she mentioned of Congress.

Police say the shooter – who has not but been named – killed three youngsters and three adults earlier than being shot useless by police. Her identification has not but been confirmed, however police say they imagine she was an adolescent.

‘We have no idea who she is. She does look like in her teenagers,’ Don Aarons, the spokesman for Nashville Metropolitan Police mentioned at a press convention on Monday afternoon.

Shortly earlier than 10.13am, the shooter entered the varsity by way of a facet door and started opening hearth on the second ground.

Police arrived on the scene and heard the gunshots coming from the 2nd ground. By 10,.27am, she had been shot useless. She was armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun.