"I have gone the full extent of my executive authority," President Joe Biden said about addressing guns after the Nashville mass school shooting.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday that President Biden is calling on Congress to step up and address gun violence following a deadly shooting in Tennessee.

U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday continued to call for U.S. lawmakers to enact federal legislation addressing the nation's gun crisis, one day after three students and three adult staff members were killed at a Tennessee school.

Republican lawmakers saying there is nothing that can be done to address mass shootings is unacceptable, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday after six people died at a Tennessee school earlier this week in the nation's latest high profile mass shooting.

The president renewed his call for Congress to pass an assault weapons ban and said there’s a “moral price to pay for inaction.”

President Joe Biden on Tuesday declared himself powerless to respond to the scourge of gun violence in America, a remarkably blunt admission one day after an assailant killed six people, including three children,