“How much more carnage are we willing to accept?” Joe Biden asked on a Prime Time television show from the White House while seeking a ban on firearms in the United States.
President Joe Biden delivered a fervent speech Thursday night urging Congress to deal with the shootings after shootings at schools, supermarkets and other everyday locations in “murders”. At that time, he shouted “enough” many times.
He warned that if Congressman takes no action, voters should use their “anger” to make it a key issue in the November midterm elections.
In a White House speech, Biden admitted a strong political headwind when trying to pressure Congress to pass stricter gun control after such efforts failed after a previous attack.
He repeated calls to revive the ban on the sale of offensive weapons and large magazines. He said that if Congress does not pass all of his proposals, he must at least find a compromise, such as protecting firearms from people with mental health. Raise the age of purchasing problematic or offensive weapons from 18 to 21.
His appointment came after three famous mass shootings. Four people died on Wednesday after gunners fired at a medical facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Last week, an 18-year-old shooter killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Before this, a white 18-year-old man doing live streaming with military equipment and a helmet camera fired at a supermarket in a predominantly black neighbourhood in northern New York, and authorities described it as “racially motivated violent extremism.”
Firearm deaths are higher than in any other prosperous country, but introducing new reforms in the United States faces major hurdles for Republicans, especially the Senate, and steps to ban offensive weapons move forward. I don’t have enough support.
“We should reinstate the ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that we passed in 1994. In the 10 years it was law, mass shootings went down. After Republicans let the law expire in 2004 and those weapons were allowed to be sold again, mass shootings tripled,” Biden pointed out.
The U.S. President said that promoting stricter gun control laws does not deprive people of their rights (the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives Americans the right to hold and bear guns), but about children. It protects families and communities and is not shot while people are doing their daily work.
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