A law aimed at preventing potentially dangerous people from getting guns has been passed, the US president said
Ten years after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, US President Joe Biden said today that America has “moral obligation” to set limits on gun ownership and that it should “to feel guilty” because he has not done so to date.
“I am determined to ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines,” the president reiterated in his announcement, a measure that is rejected currently by the Republican party.
“We have to eliminate these weapons that have no other purpose than to kill,” Biden continued. “We can do it, not only for the innocent lives lost but also for the survivors who keep their hopes alive,” he continued.
“We should feel guilty for taking too long to fix this problem. We have a moral obligation to vote and implement laws that can prevent such things from happening again,” said Biden, who assures that he has not remained idle. He thus recalled that a law was passed that aims to prevent potentially dangerous people from acquiring weapons and issued decrees on so-called “phantom weapons”, which anyone can make at home using 3D printing machines.
On December 14, 2012, 26 peopleamong which 20 children aged 6 and 7 years, were killed by an armed youth at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The tragedy shook America, but the grief did not bring gun control measures in a country where the number of guns in circulation exceeds the number of residents and shootings are a daily occurrence.
Biden has long proposed banning assault rifles, the type of weapon used by the Sandy Hook massacre. But Republicans and the powerful gun lobby, the NRA, don’t want the 1994-2004 ban reinstated, calling it unconstitutional.
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