Barack Obama Shoots Uwalde Nearly 10 Years After Sandy Hook: 'Our Country Is Paralyzed'

"Michelle and I grieve for the family at Uwalde who are going through pain that no one should be able to bear," former President Barack Obama said in response to the Texas school shooting on Tuesday.

Barack Obama mourns the 19 students and two adults who died in the mass shooting at Rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Following Tuesday's tragedy, the former president shared a statement on Twitter: "Across the country, parents put their kids to bed, read fairy tales, sing lullabies - and worry about what tomorrow might bring after they leave the kids to have. go to school or take them to the grocery store or some other public place."

"Michelle and I mourn with the family at Uwalde who suffer from pain that no one should bear. We're angry with them too," he continued. Nearly ten years after Sandy Hook also ten days after Buffalo - our country is paralyzed not by fear but by gun lobbies and political parties that have shown no desire to do anything to prevent this tragedy. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, initially announced that 14 students and their teacher had been shot in their classrooms. Still, later on Tuesday, a sergeant Eric Estrada of the Texas Department of Public Safety final the death toll had risen to 19 students also two adults, according to news . The gunman also shot his grandmother, but her grandmother survived the attack.

According to Abbott, the gunman, identified as Salvador Romas of Uvalde, was killed. The gunman opened fire on Rob's Elementary School at around 11:30 a.m. after getting out of his car, and police believed he was dead.

In a later post, Obama added, "The best way to honor them - the only way that matters - is to fight the epidemic of gun violence and prevent more senseless death and suffering." But, we can and must do more."

"I wish if I were president, I wouldn't have to repeat it, another massacre in Uvalde, Texas," said Biden, 79. "Elementary school. Beautiful, innocent, sophomore, third and fourth year. How many dozen little kids witnessed what happened? happened to see their friends die as they did on the battlefield, for God's sake."