US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that “mass shootings do not happen anywhere else in the world as they often do in America” and urged the country to confront the crisis. lobby of weapons.
In a moving address to the nation in the face of the Texas elementary school shooting that killed at least 21 people, Joe Biden said that when he became president, he never expected to have to make such statements again.
“Another massacre at an elementary school in Texas. Beautiful and innocent second, third, and fourth graders. (…) As a nation, we have to ask: For God’s sake, when are we going to face lobby arms? “He said.
Biden then questioned the fact that other countries do not have the same problem with mass shootings.
Other countries suffer from psychological problems. There are internal conflicts in other countries. They have lost people. But these kinds of mass shootings don’t happen as often as they do in the United States. why? Why are we willing to live with this carnage? He asked: Why do we keep letting this happen?
“Where is our backbone to have the courage to deal with and confront Lobbyists? (…) There’s a lot we don’t know about this shooting, but there’s a lot we do know: Parents will never see their children again, and parents who will never be the same. He added that losing a child is like uprooting a part of your soul.
Then the head of state said he was “tired” of this kind of crime in the country and called for action to stop “this massacre”.
“We have to have the courage to stand up against this industry. (…) We have to do more. It is wrong for an 18-year-old to be able to go to a store and buy a gun,” she pressed.
Alongside the first lady, Jill Biden, the US president spoke to the country shortly after returning from a five-day trip to Asia, after being informed of the massacre in elementary school while still on the plane.
Just two days before Biden left for Asia, the head of state met with the families of the victims of a hate attack that killed 10 African Americans at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
Addressing the nation, Biden referred to the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook that killed 20 children and six adults, as well as other massacres that followed.
“Since then, more than 900 schoolyard shootings have been reported. (…) And the list grows even more when we include mass shootings in places like movie theaters and places of worship, or as we’ve seen just 10 days in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York,”
US Vice President Kamala Harris also called for “the courage to act” on gun regulation.
“Enough is enough. Our hearts are still breaking,” Kamala Harris said on Tuesday, referring to the school shooting in the US.
“We must find the courage to act and understand the relationship between what constitutes reasonable and reasonable public policy,” added the US vice president, in a letter to Congress, which was unable to pass the nation’s gun law.
At least 21 people have been killed, including 18 children and three adults, according to a new report on this Tuesday’s shooting at an elementary school in Ovaldi, Texas.
State Senator Roland Gutierrez explained that he was informed by the police of the latest death toll, bringing the total death toll to 21.
However, Gutierrez did not specify if the 18-year-old gunman, who was shot down by authorities, was included in this latest report.
The senator told The Associated Press that three people injured in the attack were taken to hospital in serious condition.