Biden grieves with Texas town as anger mounts over school shooting

Anger has mounted over the decision by law enforcement agencies in Uvalde to allow the shooter to remain in a classroom for nearly an hour while officers waited in the hallway and children inside the room made panicked 911 calls for help.

"We grieve with you. We pray with you. We stand with you. And we’re committed to turning this pain into action," Mr Biden tweeted in the early evening before concluding his visit. "I feel sorry for them because they have to live with that mistake of just standing by," Julian Moreno, a former pastor at Primera Iglesia Bautista and great-grandfather of one of the girls killed, said of Uvalde's police.

The on-site commander, the chief of the school district's police department, believed the gunman was no longer an active shooter but was instead barricaded inside and that children were no longer at risk, a Texas state official said last week. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican who opposes new gun restrictions, and other local officials accompanied Biden on his visit to the school on Sunday.

White House aides and close allies say Biden is unlikely to wade into specific proposals or take executive action on firearms to avoid disrupting delicate negotiations in the divided Senate.

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