国际英语资讯:Feature: Former U.S. Vice President Biden takes aim at gun violence at LA campaign rally_时事

国际英语资讯:Feature: Former U.S. Vice President Biden takes aim at gun violence at LA campaign rally

"What kind of world is this?" Biden demanded of the crowd. "This has become intolerable!"

He lamented that Americans now send their children to school and the first thing they teach them is how to avoid being shot.

"What does that say about our soul? What does that say about who we are?" he asked his supporters.

He talked of his visit to Sandy Hook, where "...All those young children were murdered, their bodies piled on top of one another..."

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which occurred in Newtown of Connecticut state in 2017, stunned the nation after a gunman killed 20 children and six adults. The attacker, who killed his mother prior to the rampage, also died in the massacre.

"The generation with the greatest sense of anxiety in America are the so-called Gen Z children between ages of 7 and 19," Biden told the crowd. "Their greatest concern is that they will be shot in school. Not just here, it's all across America. It's sickening," he said.

While accusing Republicans of being "afraid of the NRA," Biden said, "I promise you, as I promised those people in Sandy Hook, if I am president, I guarantee I am going to beat these guys!"

"I'm so tired of people saying they will 'pray' for murdered children, when we need to do something about it!" he said.

Isabella Drudge, a 16-year old high school student who came to see where Biden stood on gun control, said, "I don't want to be afraid of going to school."