{O/C} U.S. President Joe Biden paid his respect to those who perished in the Robb Elementary school shooting in Texas.
Earlier, he made a speech to this year's University of Delaware graduates as he vowed to close the book on this blood-curdling battery of shootings in America.
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{Soundbite} JOE BIDEN, U.S. President:
Evil came to that elementary school classroom in Texas, to that grocery store in New York, to far too many places where innocents have died. We must stand stronger. We cannot outlaw tragedy, I know, but we can make America safer.
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America's highest-ranking Democrat insists Americans should join forces to prevent such masscres.
At Robb Elementary school in Texas today, he alongside first lady Jill Biden paid a visit to every altar erected in remembrance of each slain student as the first lady laid a bouquet of white flowers on the school's front.
The President was seen hugging anguished family members while he and the govenor got an earful from the outraged masses.
Biden also joined the congregation at Sacred Heart Catholic Church where several victims' family members were in attendance.
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The only words the president mustered were, "We will", as he responded to some 100 people chanting "do something" outside the church.
The Bidens' visit to Uvalde was Biden's second trip in weeks to grieve with a crushed community whose snags were compounded by the school shooting that left 21 dead.
Both the buffalo supermarket shooting and the school shooting thrust gun control under the spotlight.
The Department of Justice, meantime, released a critical incident review discerning lessons learned and tinkering with practices.
Now, debate plows on over whether lives were lost because officers did not override the standby guidance fast enough.
As this heartsick community embarks on the herculean task of healing the yawning divisions, those left childless as a result are demanding a probe into the handling of the tragedy.
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