He United States’s president, Joe Biden He once again urged Congress to approve laws that restrict the use of weapons, after several violent events have been recorded, including a massacre at a birthday party.
Through a release He noted, “What has our nation come to when children cannot attend a birthday party without fear?”
The message was sent hours after learning about the death of four people and a dozen were injured after a shooting at a teenager’s birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama (southeastern United States), on Saturday night.
Why does Biden insist on restricting the use of weapons in the US?
The Second Amendment protects the use of weapons in the US
This event was added to the one registered that same day in which at least two people died and four were injured by shots in a park in Louisville, Kentucky.
In this same city, last Monday five people died and another eight were injured, including two police officers, in a shooting that occurred in a bank.
For this reason, Joe Biden assured that he is ready “to work in good faith on federal legislation that will save lives” and stressed that “it is within the power of Congress” to implement regulations such as “the safe storage of firearms, requiring verification of for all gun sales, remove liability immunity from gun manufacturers, and ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”
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As we have mentioned in other informative notes of The Truth NewsSo far in 2023, the United States has suffered at least 162 mass shootings according to the Gun Violence Archive organization.
It is the Second Amendment that protects an individual’s right to bear arms. Despite numerous court cases.
With information from EFE
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