After the horrifying and heartbreaking shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, President Joe Biden is being criticized for his address following the tragedy.
On Tuesday, a gunmen opened fire in a Texas elementary school and wreaked havoc on the lives of those in Uvalde, NBC News reported.
After the shooting, Biden addressed the nation.
“I had hoped when I became president I would not have to do this — again. Another massacre. Uvalde, Texas. An elementary school. Beautiful, innocent second, third and fourth graders. And how many scores of little children who witnessed what happened — see their friends die, as if they’re in a battlefield, for God’s sake. They’ll live with it the rest of their lives,” Biden said, CBS News reported.
The president then went on to say that he is “sick and tired” of mass shootings like this and “we have to act.”
“As a nation, we have to ask, when in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? When in God’s name will we do what we all know in our gut needs to be done?” Biden said.
From there, Biden made several comments about gun regulations, the need to stand up to gun lobbies and how the Congress needs to pass “common sense” gun laws.
“What in God’s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill someone?” Biden asked, the Daily Wire reported. “Deer aren’t running through the forest with Kevlar vests on, for God’s sake.”
After these comments, Fox News host Tucker Carlson lambasted Biden for his insensitivity and his badly partisan comments in the midst of tragedy.
“Frail, confused, bitterly partisan, desecrating the memory of recently murdered children … dividing the country in a moment of deep pain, rather than uniting,” Carlson said.
“His voice rising, amplified only as he repeats the talking points he repeated for over 35 years in the United States Senate, partisan politics being the only thing that animates him, unfit for leadership of this country,” Carlson continued.
Tucker Carlson rips into Biden's speech about the tragic shooting in Texas:
"Frail, confused, bitterly partisan, desecrating the memory of recently murdered children … dividing the country in a moment of deep pain rather than uniting." pic.twitter.com/oueQjTKu7z
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 25, 2022
But Carlson was not the only one with scathing remarks for Biden’s speech.
Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire tweeted that he was disgusted by the situation.
“I can’t tell you how sickened I am by Biden’s speech tonight the more I think about it. It could have been a uniting moment for the country, coming together in grief and mourning, but instead he used it as a political stump speech. Appalling. What a sick, twisted old man,” Walsh tweeted.
I can't tell you how sickened I am by Biden's speech tonight the more I think about it. It could have been a uniting moment for the country, coming together in grief and mourning, but instead he used it as a political stump speech. Appalling. What a sick, twisted old man.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 25, 2022
Jason Rantz from KTTH Radio expressed similar feelings.
Joe Biden cannot help but use that stupid, lazy, inappropriate gun about deer in Kevlar vests. What a disgraceful moment in this inappropriately political speech. But yeah… he's the unifier-in-chief.
— Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) May 25, 2022
Another conservative commentator, Carmine Sabia, also reproached Biden for the tactlessness of his speech.
Shame on you Joe Biden for pretending that you know this kid walked into a gun store and purchased two assault weapons when the fact is he got a handgun and we don’t know where he got it. Shame on you for making a political speech tonight.
— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) May 25, 2022
Carlson’s criticism was the loudest, but there has been a great deal of solidarity around the fact that Biden’s decision to harp on politics during his speech after such a horrible event was utterly tasteless.
Biden and rest of USA national government:
Our prayers comforts and condolences deeply from
Our hearts to families and friends of all children not only to Texas includes the past incidents of all schools nationwide since this problem has been goin on and on.
When will it stop????
My suggestion is instead of giving speeches, lectures also to just keep mourning and mourning; let’s get into ACTION GET THIS TO STOP!!!!
Mental health issues or gun control is not enough and don’t use these as an excuse because this has been repeated repeated repeated forever as long as how long we seen this from way back because it’s from too too too much TALK TALK TALK AND NO ACTIONS!!!!!
This means I’d suggest SCHOOLS STARTING FROM K SCHOOLS TO UNIVERSITIES TO BE INSTALLED BUILT WITH GIN DETECTOR STANDS AT ALL MAIN ENTRANCES ONCE FOR ALL NO BUTS OR WHINING ABOUT MONEY NO MORE BUTS BUTS OR TALK TALK TALK. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH AND INSTALL ALL GOVERNMENT FACILITIES AND STATE FACILITIES INCLUDING EVEN PRICATELY HELD FACILITIES BE EQUIPPED WITH GUN DETECTORS AT ALL MAIN ENTRANCES AS WELL ALL FIRST FLOOR WINDOWS BE ALL BULLET PROOF EVEN IF 2 nd STORY IF IT NEEDS IT IMMEDIATELY!!!
Don’t whine or say can’t do this or that because we all seen how money has been spent from COVID, stimilius etc then this immigration even more for the war as well all court houses and airports even us congress building has gun detectors etc…. ACT DONT TALK NO MORE AND GET THIS DONE FOR SAKE OF CHILDREN EVEN UNIVERSITY ADULTS ALL TOGETHER!!!!!! AGAIN NO MORE CHIT CHAT TALK TALK TALK AND GET THIS IMMEDIATELY DONE WITH FULL ACTIONS!!! ITS NATIONWIDE!!!!!!!!
Arrest the Criminal not the Gun
First is a Gun filled with a soul no its not even alive and has no way to do any of what was done yet this is how they make things sound, no Arrest the one that Did this not Fault the entire World for what this Criminal did Arrest the Criminal not the gun
Democrats have NO idea what common sense is.
We as a Nation could stop this criminal insane shootings with
ONE entry point.
Fencing and security with Double door bulletproof entry
Metal doors with hard point locking.
Armed police at the entry.