Watch | US President Biden Jokes About Ice Cream Ahead of Statement on Nashville School Shooting

US President Joe Biden cracking an ice cream joke ahead of his statement on US school shooting that claimed the lives of three adults and three children at an elementary school in Nashville has left the internet fuming.

In a video, that has now been trending on social media, has Biden saying: “My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband. I eat Jeni’s ice cream… chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream. By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs. You think I’m kidding? I’m not.”

Later, Biden said that the attack was “sick” and “heartbreaking”.

“We have to do more to stop gun violence. It is ripping our communities apart, ripping at the very soul of the nation. We have to do more to protect our schools so they aren’t turned into prisons.”

He also said he would call on Congress against to pass his assault weapon ban. “It’s about time that we begin to make some more progress,” said Biden.

Here’s How The Internet Reacted:

What Happened

A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said.

The motive was not immediately known but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the school, including entry points for the building, and left behind a “manifesto” and other writings that investigators were examining, Police Chief John Drake told reporters.

The latest in an epidemic of deadly mass gun violence that has come to routinely terrorize even the most cherished of U.S. institutions unfolded on a warm spring morning at The Covenant School, whose students consist mostly of elementary school-age children.

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