Kamillah Caballero, left, stands with her father Michael as they and other mourners visit a memorial at Robb Elementary School created to honor the victims killed in the recent school shooting, Friday, June 3, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Two teachers and 19 students were killed. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
“Time is of the essence. Lives will be saved,” he said in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Citing the families of shooting victims he has met, the president said, “Their message to us was, ‘Do something.’ How many times did we hear that? ‘Just do something. For God’s sake, just do something.’ Today we did.”
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