"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.

President Biden addressed the deadly shooting in Nashville on Monday, calling the deaths of six people, including three elementary school children, “a family’s worst nightmare,” and urging Congress to enact gun-control legislation.