"Pretty Motivated To Act All Along", Says Joe Biden On Gun Control In US

US Gun Control: The Texas mass shooting was the deadliest school attack since 20 children and six staff were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012.

US President Joe Biden vowed on Monday to push for a "more rational" approach to gun regulation in the wake of the country's latest mass shootings.

"I've been pretty motivated all along" to act on guns, Biden told reporters in Washington. "I'm going to continue to push."

He added: "I think things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about it. That's my hope."

A day earlier, the president visited the Texas town of Uvalde, where 19 children and two teachers were killed by a teen gunman last week in a shooting at their elementary school.