'Our children deserve better': First Lady Jill Biden speaks after six die in Nashville mass school shooting
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, speaking Monday afternoon at a National League of Cities conference, told attendees, "Our children deserve better," as she broke the news of the Nashville school mass shooting at Covenant Presbyterian School where three children and three adults were shot dead.
"You know," Dr. Biden, herself an educator and clearly pained by the news, began her remarks by saying, "I hate to say what I'm gonna say next because you know you're so enthusiastic and with so much energy and hope and I feel it."
"But while you've been in this room, I don't know whether you've been on your phones but we just learned about another shooting in Tennessee, a school shooting and I am truly without words and our children deserve better, and we stand – all of us – we stand with Nashville in prayer."
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The First Lady, a former public high school English teacher and currently a professor of English at a community college, was speaking at the organization's Congressional City Conference.
Watch Dr. Biden below or at this link.
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