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'We owe them action': Biden marks 9 years since Sandy Hook shooting, calls for tougher gun laws

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a briefing about the recent tornadoes in the Midwest in the Oval Office of the White House December 13, 2021 in Washington, DC.

More than 60 people were killed, and officials fear the number will grow after a s In a video released Tuesday, President Joe Biden spoke directly to the families of those killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School nine years ago, saying the nation owed families of mass shootings "more than our prayers.

We owe them action.""No matter how long it’s been, every one of those families relives the news they got that day," Biden said in the video. "Twenty precious first-graders, six heroic educators, a lone gunman and an unconscionable act of violence.

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