Biden says gun violence ‘ripping our communities apart’ after Tennessee shooting

President again calls on Congress to pass assault weapons ban, saying we need to do more to protect our schools'

The White House led reactions in a shocked America with a call for tightening gun control in the US after a 28-year-old woman opened fire at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, killing six, including three children.

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," first lady Jill Biden said at an event in Washington as reports of the shooting at the Covenant School began circulating.