President Joe Biden is seeking to put pressure on congressional Republicans to pass an assault weapons ban after three children and three adults were killed during a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.
“He wants Congress to act because enough is enough,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday. “How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the assault weapons ban?”
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Schools should be “safe spaces for our kids to grow and learn and for our educators to teach,” Jean-Pierre said, adding Biden had been briefed on the situation and that the White House is coordinating with the Justice Department and local officials. She defended Biden’s gun-related executive orders and the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which incentivized states to introduce so-called red flag laws.
“I don’t have the data” on the effectiveness of Biden’s unilateral action, the press secretary said.
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Biden will address the shooting at a small-business event Monday afternoon, she added.
Six people are dead, as well as the shooter, after a 28-year-old biological woman who identified as a man opened fire with two assault-style rifles and a handgun Monday morning at the Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story reported Hale was a biological man who identified as a woman. Hale was a biological woman who identified as a man. The Washington Examiner regrets the error.
