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By: The Opinion Updated 02 Jun 2022, 20: 21 pm EDT
After the recent events in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde and Tulsa, President Joe Biden delivered an unusual speech on guns to pressure US lawmakers to take action as America grapples with another mass shooting.
“Nothing has been done,” Biden said. “This time that cannot be true. This time we must do something.”
President Biden He called for root actions after the three recent mass shootings and emphasized that “this is not about taking anyone’s guns away.”
“Jill and I visited Uvale. And in front of Robb Elementary School we stand in front of 06 crossroads . Murdered victims in a classroom turned into a killing field,” he recounted. “There are too many other schools and other places that can become killing fields and battlefields.”
“It’s not about taking away anyone’s rights,” he clarified, “but about protecting children and our freedom to go to school, to church, without being killed.”
“This does not mean taking anyone’s weapons. I respect culture and tradition and the concerns of legal bearers, but at the same time the Second Amendment is not absolute
. The rights granted by the Second Amendment are not unlimited, and never have been”, he expressed.
“In fact, we believe that we should treat responsible gun owners as an example of how every gun owner should behave,” added Biden
“The problem we face is one of conscience and common sense,” the president strongly urged.
We need to:
Ban assault weapons — and if we can’t, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 10 to 21.
Ban high-capacity magazines.
Strengthen background checks.
Enact safe storage laws and red flag laws.
Repeal gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability.
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 2, 2022
“We need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. And if we can’t ban assault weapons, we should raise the age to buy them from 18 to 21 years,” Biden said.
“We should reinstate the gun ban assault (which expired in 2004),” Biden said at the White House.
The president said that in the 18 years that the law was in force, mass shootings decreased.
“After the Republicans let the law expire in 2004, it was allowed to resell those weapons. Mass shootings have tripled”, he underlined.
He said that the weapons inflicted appalling damage on their victims and particularly on children, “The damage is so devastating and in Uvalde, the parents had to do DNA tests to identify the remains of their children, children aged nine and 10 years”.
The president also said the age to buy assault weapons should be raised from 18 a 21 years if legislators cannot agree on a total ban on these firearms.
Biden ended his speech with a final call for action and called on lawmakers and voters to “hear the call and the cry” and “find the time.”
“It is time for each of us to do our part. part. It is time to act. For the children we have lost, the children we can save, for the nation we love” , he highlighted.
“Let’s finally do something. God bless the families who are suffering. God bless you all”, he concluded.
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