A new message for the reduction of the possession of weapons was sent by Joe Biden in the aftermath of the massacre at Rob Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
The US president said on Twitter that gun laws would not prevent any tragedy, but added: “We know they work and have a positive impact.”
In this context, President Biden urged Congress to pass gun safety legislation.
“We know that, by common sense, gun laws cannot and will not prevent any tragedy. But we know that they work and have a positive impact. When we voted for the ban on weapons of mass destruction – the mass shootings stopped. “When the law expired – the mass shootings tripled,” Biden wrote on Twitter.
The president made similar comments in yesterday’s dramatic sermon of to the nation.
We know common sense gun laws can not and will not prevent every tragedy. But we know they work and have a positive impact.
When we passed the assault weapons ban – mass shootings went down.
When the law expired – mass shootings tripled.
– President Biden (@POTUS) May 25, 2022
“Pets”
“In the US it is more difficult to get pets than guns,” the Democratic senator told CNN Chris Murphy.
“We do not have more mental illnesses than any other nation in the world. There is no evidence that there are more mentally ill people here than in Europe… The difference is when people with homicidal thoughts in the United States can walk on the way to a Walmart and get an assault weapon more easily than a cat or dog can buy. “There is more bureaucracy in pet ownership in this country than in possession of offensive weapons,” Murphy said.
“So the difference is not mental illness. “The difference is that people who have come to terms with reality in the United States can pick up a weapon of mass destruction.”
Murphy stressed that the Republican reports for armed teachers and more police officers in schools and universities are ungrounded. “Unless you’re literally planning to put a order in every school in this country, it only takes a few minutes. for a person with an assault weapon to kill 20 or 30 people “he noted.
“That’s enough”
For her part, the US Vice President, Kamala Harris, referring to the massacre, stressed: “Enough is enough. “As a nation we must have the courage to take action and understand the relationship between what constitutes sensible public policy to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.”
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