Following the devastating Colorado shootings yesterday afternoon, Joe Biden has called for a new ban on assault weapons.
Keep scrolling to see what he had to say...
Of course, people have been left utterly heartbroken over the news of yet another mass shooting in the US.
We need gun control in this country. Or this will continue to happen. Thoughts and prayers and putting the gunman in jail is not enough.
— awanderingsilvia (@wanderingsilvia) March 23, 2021
This is heart breaking 💔 How many more people are going to have to die before this country pass gun control laws? 😭😭😭😭
— Jazzyred *GA Peach via DE* (@Jazzyre99350684) March 23, 2021
I am in Colorado. I experienced Columbine while I was in high school just next to it. Stop the damn prayers! Stop acting worse than children. Law makers do your damn jobs and PASS LAW. Our Founding Father's wanted protection against what tRump became. 1/
— D &B's Aunt, #BLM, #ConsequencesforRioters (@DandBrooklynn) March 23, 2021
Just heartbreaking to watch the Chief in this Press Conference 💔💙
— Pam (@Pam2189) March 23, 2021
Big tears here 😢.
Our prayers are with ALL of you & EVERYONE affected by this tragedy.🙏🇺🇸
Colorado has had mass shootings in a high school, a movie theatre, and now a supermarket. A solution is needed, period.
— Mad Cow.... (@craydaysinusa) March 23, 2021
You know how we honor the dead? By STOPPING this insanity. We are a country in crisis. No other country suffers this because they're smart enough to actually prevent it. We need radical change now.
— AhBrightWings (@AhBrightWings) March 23, 2021
This is CRAZY..ugh! My heart goes out to all involved..just horrible 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
— THA ORIGINAL GATA™ (@Thaoriginalgata) March 23, 2021
Thoughts and prayers AND common sense gun reform. No one needs a rifle at the grocery store. Glad you're safe, @PatientIntv and devastated for all the families who lost a loved one.
— Gabi Conecker (@ConeckerGabi) March 23, 2021
Police responded to reports of an "active shooter" at the King Soopers grocery store just before 3 pm local time on Monday in Boulder.
The gunman, who is yet to be formally identified, ended up shooting and killing ten people.
This image has been circulating online...
Oh look... another white domestic terrorist peacefully taken into custody after shooting at police and killing other people. #WhitePrivilege #colorado pic.twitter.com/zt7mhcvfo5
— Heather (@septemberluv90) March 22, 2021
This is the man believed to be responsible for the deaths of these innocent people.
The victims' families are still being notified...
Fighting back tears, Boulder police Chief Maris Herold announced that 10 people, including an officer in her department, had been killed in a shooting at a Colorado market. https://t.co/bICXWVZl2X pic.twitter.com/oR0zMqqfj8
— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) March 23, 2021
And the Boulder police chief, Maris Herold, announced the death toll at a news conference on Monday night, fighting back tears.
The suspected gunman, who was minorly injured, has been arrested and is currently being held in police custody.
This vicious act comes just a week after 8 innocent people were shot dead - including 6 Asian women - at 3-day spas in and around Atlanta.
Many customers who were in the store yesterday witnessed the bloodshed...
And they have been speaking to numerous news outlets about the harrowing things they saw during that terrifying hour.
"We were at the checkout, and shots just started going off."
Sarah Moonshadow, forty-two, a customer and resident of Boulder, was in the store with her son, Nicholas, on Monday and recounted scenes of pandemonium as gunfire rang out.
"I said, 'Nicholas get down.' And Nicholas ducked. And we just started listening and there, just repetitive shots ... And I just said, 'Nicholas, run'," she told Reuters, as per The Guardian.
Another customer, Ryan Borowski, was inside the store when the shooting began.
He told CNN: "I saw terrified faces running towards me and that's when I turned and ran the other direction."
He said staff helped customers to exit from the back of the store but some people just froze on the spot: "We ran and I don't know why other people didn't and I am sorry that they froze and I just wish that this didn't happen – I wish I had an answer for why it did."
Alex Arellano, thirty-five, was working in the meat department at King Soopers when he heard gunshots and saw people running for the exit.
"I thought I was going to die," he told the New York Times, when he heard the shot getting closer, "I'm thinking of my parents, and I was freaking out."
He hid with 2 other men before escaping through a rear exit.
But now, in the aftermath of the devastating incident, new information has horrified the world.
Rest In peace Officer Eric Talley. Your service will never be forgotten #BoulderShooting pic.twitter.com/FVximvhS2E
— Boulder Police Dept. (@boulderpolice) March 23, 2021
And it comes from none other than the NRA.
Less than a week before this awful tragedy, the NRA celebrated the availability of weapons in Colorado.
ICYMI: A Colorado judge gave law-abiding gun owners something to celebrate.
— NRA (@NRA) March 16, 2021
In an @NRAILA-supported case, he ruled that the city of Boulder’s ban on commonly-owned rifles (AR-15s) and 10+ round mags was preempted by state law and STRUCK THEM DOWN. https://t.co/wmdhGG16pc
And now, president Joe Biden has called for a nationwide ban on assault weapons, background check reforms, and changes to gun restrictions in his first meeting since the shooting.
"I don't need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take commonsense steps that will save lives in the future," Biden said.
Finally, something is being done about gun crime here in the U.S.
Make sure to stay posted for updates.