Use: Biden remembers Parkland massacre, but parents protest

(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 14 - Four years after the Parkland high school massacre, in Florida, in which 14 students and three teachers were killed by a nineteen-year-old US president Joe Biden reiterated that his administration works to allow an end to armed violence.

But the parents of the victims and other associations blame him for not having done enough.

    The father of one of the boys killed got on a crane not far from the White House and unrolled a banner with the photo of his son, Joaquin Oliver: "45 thousand have been killed by weapons and you are watching", it read.

The young group March For Our Lives, together with the organizations GunsDown America and Change the Ref, today launched a tool called 'Shock Market' that will take into account all incidents of armed violence in the United States since Biden took office.

A rally outside the White House is also scheduled today to urge the president to take a more decisive approach.

    "Biden was a friend but not a leader," said DavidHogg, founder of March For Our Lives and a Parkland shooting survivor.

"He took small steps but it wasn't enough. The president was not receptive to our requests. We expected it from Trump, but we are shocked by him," he stressed.

    In his message of condolence, the president cited the "extraordinary movement" of the young people of March of our Lives, speaking of a "new generation of Americans who marched for a safer America for all of us."

Biden assured that his administration is "alongside those who work to allow an end to this epidemic of armed violence", recalling that he has launched a plan to reduce the crimes committed with weapons.

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