The American president Joe Biden said Wednesday that he and US First Lady Jill will go to Uvalde, Texas the next few days to comfort the families of its victims massacre in elementary school.
Biden made the remarks from the White House when he presented an executive order to reform the police on the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd during his arrest by a white police officer in Minneapolis.
The US President added some passages to his speech to refer to massacre at the primary school in Uwaltne, where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two teachers.
«Jill and I will travel to Texas in the next few days to meet with families and tell them we have a feeling, just a sense of their pain, and we hope to offer some small consolation to a community that is in a state of shock and grief and has suffered a trauma“, Biden pointed out.
A few days ago the American president had gone to New York Buffalo to comfort their families 10 people killed in a supermarket. Almost all of the victims were African-Americans, with one attacking proponent of white supremacy.
«I’m disgusted and tiredBiden stressed yesterday, expressing his indignation over the repeated incidents of mass shootings in the USA.
Whether the government can control it access to firearms is one of the issues that most divides Americans. Those who say that are opposed restricting access to weapons will save lives with those who claim the weapons themselves are not responsible for the mass shootings and that the right to bear arms is protected by the US Constitution.
Biden called on the Senate to immediately confirm the appointment of Steven Deltelbachwho has been selected as head of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Weapons and Explosives Service, whose mission is, among other things, to enforce arms legislation.
At the same time, the American president once again criticized the powerful NRA arms lobbywhich opposes the tightening of gun ownership legislation.
«Where is the courage, where is our bravery to stand tall in front of a very strong lobby?He wondered.
The NRA expressed its sorrow for the victims of the Ovalde massacre, but stressed in a statement that it was “the act of an isolated and disturbed criminal».
He added that he was not going to postpone his annual conference, which starts tomorrow Friday in Houston, Texas, where he is expected to address, among others, the governor of the state Greg Abbott, the senators from the state Ted Cruz and John Kornin, but also former US President Donald Trump.
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