US President Joe Biden speaks at the USCG Changing of Command ceremony at the USCG headquarters in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2022.
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President Joe Biden on Thursday will renew his calls on Congress to adopt new gun restrictions – following mass shootings involving killings at a Texas primary school and hospital in Oklahoma.
Biden is due to address the nation at 7:30 p.m. ET from the White House, which said Biden would issue a “call to action” in response to the shooting.
An 18-year-old man entered an elementary school in Uwalde, Texas with an AR-15-style assault rifle last Tuesday, killing 19 students and two teachers before being killed by police.
“Where, for God’s sake, is our backbone to have the courage to deal with it and face it [gun] lobbies? ”Biden said immediately after the massacre.
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On Wednesday, another gunman fatally shot dead his doctor and three others at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, just three hours after buying an AR-15 rifle. The gunman died from what police said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Another 10 people may have been injured in the shooting there.
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