Joe Biden welcomes “progress” that is not enough, but “significant” – These measures require a qualified majority to pass in the Senate
A “ray of hope” in the US to restrict access to firearms in the shadow of a series of deadly bloody incidents.
Twenty senators, Republicans and Democrats, announced today Sunday a historic agreement on several provisions to better regulate the use of firearms, but few measures after the recent massacres that shocked the United States.
These measures, which require a qualified majority to pass in the Senate, include a call for states to withdraw their weapons from those considered dangerous, as well as others related to mental health and school safety, but do not include key elements. of the reforms demanded by Democrats and Joe Biden.
The US president, however, immediately hailed the “progress” that is not enough, but is “significant”, considering that the text may be “the most important for arms control that will vote in Congress in decades.”
The U.S. Sen. bipartisan team has agreed on a framework for possible legislation on safer use of firearms, including stricter background checks on buyers. firearms under the age of 21 years.
“Our plan saves lives “At the same time, it’s defending the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans,” the group, led by Democrat Chris Murphy and Republican John Cornyn, said in a statement.
The talks followed a series of mass shootings in the United States, including the attack. at an elementary school in Uwalde in Texas last month, in which 19 young children were killed, and in the May attack on a Buffalo supermarket in New York that killed 10 African-Americans.
The deal was announced one day after the demonstrations in Washington and hundreds of other cities in the United States with tens of thousands of citizens asking lawmakers adopt restrictive legislation of the use of weapons.
