A hostage taker killed at a Texas synagogue got his weapons off the street, President Joe Biden said on Sunday, a day after the safe release of four people held there by a gunman in what Biden called “an act of terror.”

The hostage incident in Colleyville, Texas, “was an act of terror; it was an act of terror,” said Biden, who was in Philadelphia with first lady Jill Biden packing carrots and apples at a food bank in a visit to the city to honour the legacy of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Biden addressed the issue of