‘Hell No!’ Biden Fumes At Trump’s Past Response to a Mass Shooting
President Joe Biden lashed out at former President Donald Trump and his response to a January mass shooting while speaking about gun control at a Tuesday conference.
The president spoke in Washington D.C. at a Gun Sense University conference where he called for “assault weapons” to be banned, universal background checks, and more. At one point, he also targeted his predecessor for his response to a January shooting that left a student and a teacher dead.
“After a school shooting in Iowa that killed a student and teacher, my predecessor was asked about it. You remember what he said. He said, ‘you have to get over it.’ Hell no, we don’t have to get over it! We got to stop it and stop it now!” Biden yelled at the cheering audience.
The president accused Trump of “making things considerably worse” by doing nothing on gun control.
The comment from Trump that Biden is referring to happened at a campaign rally in Sioux City. Trump told people they needed to “move forward” offered his “deepest sympathies” to the families affected by the tragedy.
“I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the terrible school shooting yesterday in Perry, Iowa,” he said.
Trump called the shooting “horrible” and “surprising.”
“It’s just horrible, so surprising to see it here, but have to get over it, we have to move forward,” he said.
The Iowa shooting occurred at Perry High School on Jan. 4. A student shot five fellow students and three staff members. One of the students, a sixth grader, died from their injuries, as did a staff member days after the shooting.
The president mocked gun rights activists for citing defense against government tyranny as one reason to own semi-automatic rifles like AR-15s.
“And by the way if they want to think they’re going to take on government if we get out of line, which they’re talking again about, well guess what? They need F-15s, they don’t need rifles,” Biden said.
“We all want our kids to have the freedom to learn to read and write in schools instead of learning how to duck and cover, for God’s sake,” he added later.
The president’s speech on gun control followed his son Hunter Biden being found guilty on three felony gun charges in Delaware. The president’s son was accused of lying about a drug addiction when acquiring a pistol in 2018, a gun that was discarded days later.
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