High School Shooting, President Biden: Students Learn To Play And Hide Instead Of Reading, This Is Unacceptable

US President Joe Biden. (Wikimedia Commons/The White House)

JAKARTA - United States President Joe Biden is concerned about the shooting at Georgia High School that killed four people, concerned about students who have to learn to hate and take cover instead of reading and writing.

Two teachers and two students were killed in the shooting by a 14-year-old student at Apalachee High School, Winder, Georgia, United States on Wednesday. The shooting also injured nine others.

"Jill and I mourn the deaths of those whose lives end up with unreasonable gun violence and think of all the victims whose lives have changed forever," President Biden said in a statement issued by the White House.

President Biden said the new academic year, which should have been fun at Winder, Georgia, turned into a terrible reminder of the armed violence that divides society.

"Students across the country learn how to kill and take shelter instead of reading and writing. We can't continue to accept this as normal," he stressed.

President Biden added that his party was coordinating closely with officials at the federal, state and local levels, thanking the first respondent to detaining the suspect and preventing further loss of life.

The suspect, identified asANGY Gray (14), a student at the school, was detained and will be charged and tried as an adult, Chris Hosey, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, was dismissed from Reuters.

The suspect spoke with investigators, but they declined to say if they knew what motivated him. They also did not say what kind of weapon was used in the shooting.

"What we are seeing behind us is a bad thing today," Sheriff Jud Smith said at a brief press conference on the school grounds.

Smith said his deputy quickly responded to the shooting after the sheriff's office received news about an active shooter at around 10:20 a.m. local time.

The armed student was intercepted by a deputy at the school and the boy immediately fell down and gave up, Smith said.

The shooting was the first "planned attack" at a school this fall, said David Riedman, who runs the K-12 School Shooting Database. Apalachee students returned to school last month; many other students in the US returned to school this week.

The US has seen hundreds of shootings inside schools and colleges in the past two decades, with the deadliest resulting in more than 30 deaths in Virginia Tech in 2007.

The tragedy has intensified heated debates over weapons laws and the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which perpetuates the right "to own and carry weapons."