{"id":1496387,"date":"2022-05-29T12:29:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T16:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496387"},"modified":"2022-05-29T12:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T16:30:26","slug":"biden-heads-to-uvalde-texas-in-wake-of-elementary-school-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-heads-to-uvalde-texas-in-wake-of-elementary-school-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Heads To Uvalde, Texas In Wake Of Elementary School Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-heads-to-uvalde-texas-in-wake-of-elementary-school-massacre%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1496387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden traveled to Uvalde, Texas on Sunday in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at an elementary school.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen children and two teachers died Tuesday after 18-year-old suspected gunman Salvador Ramos entered\u00a0<span class=\"yKMVIe\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"1\">Robb Elementary School and opened fire inside a classroom. Law enforcement have faced <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/26\/police-response-uvalde-texas-shooting-investigated-state-authorities-discrepancies\/\">criticism<\/a> in the days following the massacre over <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/26\/joe-biden-wont-prejudge-police-response-texas-school-shooting-karine-jean-pierre\/\">questionable<\/a> tactics used in responding to the shooter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/28\/people-being-incredible-uvalde-texas-massacre\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/28\/people-being-incredible-uvalde-texas-massacre\/\">8 Examples Of People Being Incredible In The Face Of The Texas Massacre)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden, alongside First Lady Jill Biden, traveled to Uvalde in the wake of the attack \u201cto grieve with the community that lost twenty-one lives in the horrific elementary school shooting,\u201d the White House noted. While in Texas, the Bidens will visit the memorial site at the elementary school, attend mass and meet with families of victims and survivors.<\/p>\n<p>The president returned to the White House from his Asia trip on Tuesday evening and gave a speech in the wake of the attack. Biden began his speech by recognizing the horrors behind the lives lost and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/24\/joe-biden-massacre-texas-school-shooting-gun-lobby\/\">eventually<\/a> pivoted to a call for America to \u201cstand up to the gun lobby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also referenced the school shooting during a commencement speech at the University of Delaware on Saturday. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/26\/texas-shooter-parents-police-uvalde\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0As The Texas Shooter Killed Children, Police Cuffed And Pepper-Sprayed Parents Trying To Get In The Building)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7439463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7439463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the commencement address at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, U.S., May 28, 2022. REUTERS\/Elizabeth Frantz\/File Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cToo much violence, too much fear, too much grief,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWe cannot outlaw tragedy, I know, but we can make America safer. We can finally do what we have to do to protect the lives of the people and of our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president has been a big proponent of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/03\/joe-biden-new-york-plan-combat-gun-crime\/\">gun control.<\/a> He has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/10\/biden-ghost-gun-rules\/\">targeted<\/a>\u00a0\u201cghost guns\u201d and advocated for a ban on so-called \u201cassault-style\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/04\/10\/985514254\/biden-wants-new-ban-on-assault-style-weapons-what-lessons-were-learned-from-the-\">weapons<\/a>,\u00a0a term gun control advocates use to refer to certain kinds of semi-automatic weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s trip to Uvalde marks his third time visiting the site of a mass shooting since taking office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/biden-seek-console-texas-town-devastated-by-mass-shooting-police-controversy-2022-05-29\/\">according<\/a> to Reuters. He visited Buffalo, New York earlier in May after a mass shooter targeted a grocery store and killed ten people. That accused shooter, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/16\/alleged-buffalo-shooter-payton-gendron-investigation-police-year-before-threats-graduation\/\">taken<\/a> alive by police.<\/p>\n<p>Ramos was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/26\/texas-gunman-uvalde-salvador-ramos\/\">fatally<\/a> shot by border patrol agents an hour and fifteen minutes after police entered the school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/05\/28\/us\/school-shooting-timeline-uvalde-texas.html\">according<\/a> to a timeline published by The New York Times. The gunman fired over 100 rounds before being shot, The Times also reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden traveled to Uvalde, Texas on Sunday in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at an elementary school.Nineteen children and two teachers died Tuesday after 18-year-old suspected<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1496398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1496387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1496387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1496398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1496387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1496387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1496387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}