Massacre in Texas: Joe Biden traveled to Uvalde to soothe the suffering of a traumatized city

" Do something !

Joe Biden absorbed the pain of Uvalde, a Texas town traumatized by a school shooting, on Sunday, but he can't promise much in terms of gun control.

At the exit of the church where the democratic president, practicing Catholic, and his wife Jill Biden had just attended a mass, several voices chanted: “Do something!

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" We will do it.

We will do it, ”replied the president, climbing on the step of his car, turning to the people who were calling out to him.

The couple had started their visit at Robb Elementary School, the site of one of the worst school massacres in the United States.

Eighteen-year-old Salvador Ramos shot dead nineteen children and two teachers on Tuesday.

Hours with the families of the victims

Joe and Jill Biden laid a bouquet in front of crosses bearing the names of the victims, almost overwhelmed with flowers.

Then the couple, aching faces behind their dark glasses, reviewed a row of large photos showing the faces of the broke children, aged 9 to 11.

The Bidens later spent nearly three hours with families of victims, away from cameras and view.

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Uvalde's images bore a grim resemblance to the visit by the US president and his wife a few days ago to Buffalo, in the northeast of the country, the site of a racist massacre.

Joe Biden therefore found himself immersed in mourning, with an intimate dimension.

“Losing a child is like having a part of your soul ripped away from you,” he said on Tuesday, he who lost a still-baby daughter in a car accident, and a son from cancer at adulthood.

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The 79-year-old Democrat, however, cannot do much more, in a country where there are more weapons in circulation than inhabitants.

The Democrats must convince some Republicans to obtain the necessary qualified majority in the Senate, and legislate at least on access to semi-automatic weapons.

The task will be difficult.

On Friday, heavyweights from the conservative camp, including former President Donald Trump, marched to the convention of the powerful pro-gun lobby NRA, rallying to the organization's leader's mantra: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun he's a good guy with a gun,” said Wayne LaPierre.