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Texas school shooting: Joe Biden calls for "confronting the gun lobby"

2022-05-25T04:35:21.979Z


US President Joe Biden, visibly scarred by this new killing, called for "confronting the gun lobby" as 18 children


On Tuesday, in the small town of Uvalde, Texas, America plunged back into the recurring nightmare of school shootings.

A new drama that affects Joe Biden: "I was hoping by becoming president not to have to do this", blew the 79-year-old Democrat when he arrived in front of the cameras at the White House, a few hours after the massacre in the elementary school with a frightening human toll: 18 children and at least one adult.

“When for God's sake are we going to face the gun lobby?

“, said the president, informed of the tragedy on the plane which brought him back from a diplomatic tour in Asia.

“I am disgusted and tired,” he said again.

"Don't tell me we can't have an impact on this carnage," Joe Biden said again, about the scourge of gun deaths in the United States.

With drawn features, he called for "turning pain into action" to further regulate weapons in the country, and in particular assault weapons.

“Weapons manufacturers have spent two decades aggressively promoting the assault weapons that bring them the biggest profits,” he said.

He also attacked the Republican opposition, which is blocking all his attempts to pass measures in Congress such as mandatory checks on the criminal records and psychiatric histories of people buying guns.

“Losing a child is like having a part of your soul ripped out of you”

The conservative camp has also refused so far to reinstate a ban on the sale of assault rifles to civilians, like the one that existed in the United States between 1994 and 2004 for certain semi-automatic weapons.

“Those who block or delay common sense gun legislation, (…) we will not forget,” said Joe Biden, who can only issue decrees controlling the circulation of firearms at the margin.

“Losing a child is like having a part of your soul ripped out of you,” also said this devout Catholic, who himself lost two children, a still-baby girl in an accident and a dead adult son. of a cancer.

Alongside his wife, Jill Biden, he called on the United States to "pray" for the bereaved families.

“They are going to need a lot of help, a lot of prayers.

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Source: leparis

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