The US president has referred to several attacks that have taken place in recent days, including a massacre at a birthday party in Alabama. The country has suffered at least 162 mass shootings so far this year.
The US president again urged Congress on Sunday to approve it laws restricting the use of gunsafter several violent events are recorded, including a massacre at a birthday party.
“What has happened to our country if children can’t go to a birthday party without fear, if parents have to worry every time their kids walk out of school, go to the movies or to the park?” Biden asked in a statement. .
Biden sent this message at least a few hours after learning that four people died and more than a dozen were injured after a shooting at a teenager’s birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama (southeast United States), on Saturday night.
An event that is still full of unknowns and that at least took place on the same day two people died and four were injured by gunfire in a park in Louisville, Kentucky.
In the same city, last Monday five people were killed and eight others were injuredincluding two police officers, in a bank shooting.
Firearms are the leading cause of death for children in the United States the numbers are risingnot diminishing,” the president added.
Biden assured that he is willing “to work in good faith on federal legislation that will save lives” and stressed that “it is within the power of Congress” to enact regulations such as “the safe storage of firearms, required Background check for all arms sales, waive immunity from liability of the arms manufacturers and prohibit assault weapons and high-capacity magazines“.
In any case, the United States has suffered 162 mass shootings so far this year, according to the organization Gun Violence Archive, which defines mass shootings as those that kill four or more people, not counting the perpetrator of the attack.
Source: EITB
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