Hi, this is Brian on the Camino de Santiago. My wife and I are a little over halfway done with a 500 mile walk through northern Spain.

This podcast was recorded at 12.22 pm eastern on Tuesday the 31st of May.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but we'll be a few miles closer to Santiago de Compostela.

Wow, that's a lot of walking. Happy hiking. Hey there is the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Claud Aguides. I just cover Congress. And I'm Dominican Montenar. I'm a senior political editor and correspondent.

Over the weekend, President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden went to Uvalde, Texas to pay their respect to the victims of the attack.

They were there on Sunday. They visited a makeshift memorial. They met for hours and hours with family members.

Claudia, you cover Congress, but right now you are in Uvalde doing reporting there for us for NPR.

Tell us about some of the folks that you met there in the community.

Right. Yes. It's been heartbreaking hearing these stories here. I arrived Sunday just after the president had been in town.

And you could get a feel from visitors, from residents of what they were going through, the excruciating pain of the last few days.

And what they are processing right now. And for example, I went to the makeshift memorial at Rob Elementary School where the shooting took place for days.

Moorners would line up and hand off flowers and notes and just other mementos to police and ask them to place these items at this memorial.

I would talk up directly to it until Sunday. And that's when I was talking to people. A lot of visitors from all over the state.

I spoke to one couple, Renee and Avella Lopez, who drove five hours out here. They were so struck by what happened and wanted to show their respects.

Adela Lopez is actually a high school teacher and she talked to me a little bit about what she was experiencing.

Students, I teach her older, nice to 12, but they still children. And this can happen to us. So that's my fear for my next world already, after summer.

So everyone's fine, but we don't know next year.

So this is what is on a lot of people's minds. Are we next? And it was interesting talking to Adela Lopez about this because she said she had the same feeling after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut.

She wondered when will it get to us? When will something like that reach us? And now it's closer. It's here. And she's talked about how much it's made her reflect on what needs to get done when it comes to guns and restrictions.

So we really got to get out there and get our government to give our children a chance and ban semi-automatic weapons.

Have you always felt that way? I used to be a pro-gun, but just guns. Not military style weapons that you can kill, masters of children and people. We don't need that.

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