Intro; Tuesday’s massacre is the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, and it’s the deadliest at a U.S. elementary school since late 2012, when 27 people were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
19 Children Killed In Texas Elementary School Shooting As Biden Urges Americans To ‘Stand Up’ To Gun Industry
"President Joe Biden called on lawmakers to pass “common-sense gun laws” in an impassioned address Tuesday evening, after a shooting at a Texas elementary school left 19 children dead, saying, “as a nation we have to ask: When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?”
. . .The president specifically cited the Federal Assault Weapons Ban—which took effect in 1994 but expired a decade later—as an example of a “common-sense” policy. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has also called on Congress to pass a bill requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases, but the legislation appears unlikely to attract the 10 Republican Senate votes required to break the filibuster.
Shortly after the shooting, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called the incident “horrific” but warned against Congress taking up gun control legislation, telling CNN: “You see Democrats and a lot of folks in the media whose immediate solution is to try to restrict the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens.”
> Cruz, Abbott and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) were all slated to speak at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston on Friday, though Cornyn’s office told local media outlets he canceled his appearance due to a preexisting schedule conflict."
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