Texas: President Joe Biden has said that he is considering demolishing the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and building a new campus where 19 young children and two teachers were shot and killed last week in one of the worst mass shootings in US history.

Democratic Texas State Senator Roland Gutierrez said Biden told him that he was considering giving the community federal funds to 'raze' and rebuild the school to help the community reeling from the mass shooting last Tuesday.

Gutierrez told the media that Biden assured him: 'I’m not going away … I’m going to bring your resources. … We’re looking to get real money for health care.

Gutierrez was among the local officials, alongside Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who greeted Biden and First Lady Jill Biden on the tarmac when Air Force One landed for his day in Uvalde grieving with the community.

'I can't tell you how many little children that I've talked to that don't want to go into that building. They're just traumatized. They're just destroyed,' Gutierrez added.

Sandy Hook Elementary School was torn down and replaced by a new $50 million school on the same property in Newtown, Connecticut after a gunman shot and killed 26 people in 2012.

School officials in Colorado were considering razing Columbine High School in 2019 due to a "morbid fascination" surrounding the building where 13 people were murdered in 1999, but they ultimately decided not to tear it down.

The congregation at First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, Texas, which is about 110 miles east of Uvalde, voted last year to tear down the old church where a gunman opened fire in 2017, killing 26 people.

Biden also told Gutierrez that he's committed to bringing mental health resources to the community in the wake of this week's shooting.