US: Biden calls Nashville shooting “sick”, urges Congress to pass assault weapons ban

US President Joe Biden described the deadly school shooting at a Nashville school that killed six people as “sick” and said gun violence is tearing the nation’s “soul.”

“It’s just sick,” he said at the White House while speaking at Small Administration’s Women’s Business Summit Monday.

Biden called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban. “It’s ripping our communities apart, ripping the soul of this nation, ripping at the very soul of the nation,” he said. “We need to do more to protect our schools,” he added.

On Monday, a 28-year-old woman killed three children and three staff at a private elementary school in Nashville Monday before being shot dead by police.