President Joe Biden once again called on Congress to pass a bill that would ban assault-style weapons in the wake of a shooting at a Nashville grade school that left three children and three adults dead on Monday.

We have to do more to stop gun violence. Its ripping our communities apart, the president said from the White House. Ripping at the very soul of the nation. And we have to do more to protect our schools so they arent turned into prisons.

I call on Congress, again, to pass my assault weapons ban, he continued.

The shooter was armed with two assault-style rifles and a pistol while carrying out the attack at The Covenant School, a private Christian school, authorities said. Police killed the shooter, identified as a 28-year-old woman, on the scene, officials said.