Just over a week ago, Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York to offer comfort to a community where 10 people were killed by a lone gunman.
On Sunday, 1,720 miles away in Uvalde, the president again tried to comfort another grieving community.
It remains to be seen whether the latest massacre will change the political landscape.
As anger continues over the delay in police entry into the school to confront Ramos, the Justice Department (DoJ) has announced that it will conduct a “critical incident review” of the police response.
The DoJ’s decision came at the request of Don McLaughlin, the Republican mayor of Uvalde.
A DoJ spokesman said: “The aim of the review is to provide an independent account of law enforcement actions and responses that day, and to identify lessons learned and best practices to help first respond to prepare for and respond to active shooter events “.
Much of the criticism has been leveled at Pedro Arredondo, the head of police in the school district of Uvalde, and his decision to instruct officers to carry out the assault on two classrooms where Ramos, 18, is already had unleashed a volley of more than 100 rounds.
In all, 90 minutes passed before Ramos entered the school until U.S. Border Patrol officers opened the classroom door and killed him.
The head of the US Border Patrol, Raúl Ortiz, defended the actions of his agency on Sunday.
“When my agents got the call, they shot as fast as they could,” Ortiz said.
On Friday, Steven McCraw, head of the Texas Department of Public Safety, said the decision, based on the belief that Ramos had been barricaded in the classroom, was incorrect.
Arredondo, the local police chief since 2020, had completed a training course for active shooters since December.