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English Level VI
Journal 5
Mr. Oscar Flores Lima

Name: Dafne Danae Torres Jiménez

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News:

‘Nashville school shooting: Biden criticized for joking about ice

cream in first statement since attack’

President Biden was criticized Monday for his response to the Nashville school
shooting after he joked that he only made a public appearance because he heard
there would be ice cream before discussing the tragedy that claimed the lives of
three adults and three children at an elementary school earlier in the day.
"My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband," Biden said from the White
House's East Room in his first public appearance since a 28-year-old woman shot
and killed three students and three teachers at a Christian private school in
Nashville. "I eat Jeni’s ice cream — chocolate chip. I came down because I heard
there was chocolate chip ice cream," he continued. "By the way, I have a whole
refrigerator full upstairs," he added. "You think I’m kidding? I’m not," Biden told the
crowd.

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Biden later called the shooting "sick" and "heartbreaking" while demanding
Congress do more to "stop the gun violence." But critics went after the president
for the inappropriate reaction and seemingly playful tone while addressing the
tragedy.

"To say that he misunderstood the moment would be an understatement," former

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie told Fox News later Monday. "You know, the
president is watching, you’d hope before he comes down there, the awful scenes
from the shooting and the reactions of family members and friends of people in that
school. And to be coming down, joking about the fact that he’s Jill Biden’s husband
and looking for chocolate chip ice cream is hardly the way to start it," Christie said.

"There’s no way to talk about something like this except to say that for all of us who
are parents, what we dread every day is the news about the health and life of our
children," he added. "And so there’s no room to joke in that circumstance at all.
And certainly not from the President of the United States."

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Opinion:
In my opinion, that was a heartbreaking situation, and I think all the people
(parents) were expecting a speech, but instead, the president was just joking.
the news said the shooter was a 20 year old white female, she killed 3 children and
3 adults, people said they needed a safe school for their children and the teachers.
I think the president has no empathy, and just imagine if he didn't care about that
situation, I don't expect any kind of solution to other equal or even bigger problems
in that country.
He also made another request for a ban on assault weapons. Perhaps he should
start enforcing the laws already on the books starting with arresting and
prosecuting people who falsify gun purchase documents like his son Hunter.
This country needs to be controlled, a president to run the country, I don't really
know what the president does, but I know that this is not the first case (that one
person kills others inside a school).