President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden added a bouquet of white flowers Friday to a makeshift memorial outside Schemengees Bar and Grille, one of the scenes of Maine's deadliest mass shooting.
They stood for a moment of silence before bending over to hug bar owner Kathy Lebel. Eight people died there in the Oct. 25 massacre, along with seven at the nearby Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley. Three others died at hospitals.
The Democratic president has said he's determined to fight gun violence in the U.S. He created the first White House office of gun violence prevention, which is charged with finding solutions and fully implementing landmark gun safety legislation enacted last year. He's also pushing for a ban on so-called assault weapons.
As of Friday, there have been at least 37 mass killings in the U.S. in 2023, leaving at least 195 people dead, not including shooters who died, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. There were also memorials paying tribute to victims outside Just-In-Time, the bowling alley where the shootings began. Media and police were assembled near the site. A row of jack-o-lanterns lined the road leading up to the bowling alley on a chilly, sunny fall day.Elizabeth Seal, who lost her husband Josh in the Maine shootings, texted about Biden's visit: "I'd like to see what he has to say to our community.
She added: "I don't see the point. There's no good reason for that. And so I hope that our lawmakers will do something to change that. I don't see this problem in other countries, right? This is an American issue." Several thousand people attended vigils for the victims over the weekend, and residents started returning to work and school on Monday after stay-at-home orders were lifted.
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