Biden voices grief and anger at shooting: ?I am sick and tired of it?

It was a moment of demanding change, of attacking Republicans who boast of their love of guns, of pointing to the children that, they say, Congress is failing.For Biden, and for the nation as a whole, the massacre in Uvalde was a painful echo of the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn., that killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, bookends to a decade filled with mass shootings.From Sandy Hook to Uvalde: 10 years of failed efforts at gun control“As a nation we have to ask: When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?” Biden asked, his voice rising. He spoke with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) while flying on Air Force One, and his staff scrambled to have him deliver a rare prime-time address.Many lawmakers from both parties expressed horror and sadness immediately after the shooting.Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said on Twitter that he was “completely sickened and heartbroken,” that he was “lifting up in prayer” for the community and that there had “been too many of these shootings.” Cruz, along with former president Donald Trump and Abbott, is scheduled to speak Friday at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston, about 275 miles from Uvalde.Critics of Cruz tweeted angrily back at him, including Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), who wrote, “Just to be clear fuck you @tedcruz you fucking baby killer.”House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) encapsulated the shock and anger felt by Democrats toward their Republican colleagues, noting that legislation passed in the House last year had been languishing in the Senate.“How many more times will Senate Republicans express outrage at horrific shootings like the one today in Uvalde, Texas, and then block meaningful, bipartisan background-check legislation supported by nine out of ten Americans and most responsible gun owners?” he said in a statement. The “Charleston loophole” legislation, named after the 2015 massacre in South Carolina, would have extended the review period to 20 days.A separate bill would have required background checks to close the “gun show loophole,” which allows buyers to forgo a review if they buy a gun at a gun show or online.Both bills passed with overwhelming Democratic support but were never taken up in a 50-50 Senate, where 10 Republicans would be needed to send the legislation to the president’s desk.More than 300,000 students have faced violence since ColumbineOn Twitter, some resurrected a tweet from Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Tex.), who represents Uvalde, in which the congressman boasted about voting against the two bills and noted that he remains “a proud supporter of the Second Amendment and will do everything I can to oppose gun grabs from the far Left.”Some lawmakers noted that the country was still reeling from an attack on a Black community in Buffalo a little over a week ago that killed 10 people at a supermarket.