"What are we doing? We have more mass shootings than there are days in the year," asks a senator after the shooting in Texas.

• USA At least 18 children and a teacher are killed in a shooting at a Texas school

The shooting this Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde (Texas), where at least 18 children and a teacher died, has received the condemnation of the American political class, with the Democrats trying to revive the

and Republicans avoiding bringing up the subject.

"What are we doing?

Our children are scared every time they step foot in the classroom in case they are next. What are we doing?" Democratic Senator

lamented with the broken voice during the plenary session, shortly after the news broke.

The Connecticut representative, whose emotional speech was widely echoed on networks and television, stressed that such a number of school shootings

and that these tragedies "are not inevitable."

And it is that the United States Congress has spent more than two decades without significantly limiting the possession of weapons, protected in the second amendment of the Constitution.

For her part, the vice president of the United States,

affirmed that the leaders of the country must have the

to end the shootings.

"Enough is enough, as a nation we must have the courage to act and understand the nexus of what constitutes reasonable and sensible public policy," Harris said in an address to the annual gala of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

Visibly affected, Harris pointed out that every time a tragedy like this happens it is heartbreaking, but, she stressed, this is nothing compared to the trance that the families of the victims go through.

lamented the vice president.

In that sense, former Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State

called for more "legislators willing to stop the scourge of gun violence in the United States."

"Thoughts and prayers are not enough. After years of doing nothing, we are becoming a nation full of cries of anguish," he declared on social networks.

For his part, Democratic Congressman

said on social media that he owns a gun, but said the country's founding fathers "didn't conceive of this carnage when they wrote the Constitution."

From the

there were also condemnations for the massacre, but its main leaders avoided referring to the debate over gun control.

"Appalled and heartbroken by the disgusting violence against students in Uvalde, Texas, the entire country is praying for children, families, teachers and staff," said the leader of the Republicans in the Senate,

The governor of Texas himself, conservative

who reported the massacre, described this tragedy as a "senseless crime."

Meanwhile,

a Republican senator from Texas, said he was praying for the minors and their families, and thanked the "heroic" work of the authorities who went to the scene of the shooting.

At least 18 children and a teacher died Tuesday after an 18-year-old boy entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and opened fire on his victims.

The assailant, whose motives are still unknown, was

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