May 31, 2022

WASHINGTON/UVALDE, Texas, May 30 (Reuters) - A day after promising residents of Uvalde, Texas, action to address gun violence, U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday sought to appeal to "rational" Republicans to curb powerful weapons and take other federal action to prevent mass shootings.

"Things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about it," Biden said as he returned from a weekend trip to memorialize the 19 children and two teachers killed last Tuesday in the nation's worst mass school shooting in a decade.

"The idea of these high-caliber weapons -- there is simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting," Biden told reporters at the White House.

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