Washington.- The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has called on the US Congress to ban assault rifles and carry out a reform of the Police, all of this referring to the latest shootings that have occurred in the country and the police abuses against the black population.
The US president has asked the country’s legislators to save lives by banning assault weapons “once and for all”, recalling that a temporary ban approved in 1994 led to a decrease in shootings for a period of ten years, as he has highlighted. during his intervention in the State of the Union.
“(We must) ban assault weapons once and for all. We’ve done it before. I led the fight to ban them in 1994. In the 10 years that the ban was in law, shootings have gone down… Let’s finish the job and Let’s ban assault weapons again,” Biden asserted to applause from the Democratic caucus.
In this sense, he has praised the gun safety law approved by his administration that makes it difficult for young people between the ages of 18 and 21 to have access to these types of weapons and for people with certain criminal records.
As the US president has said, he promoted the law after the plea in this regard from parents who lost their children at the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where last May an 18-year-old killed two teachers and 19 children.
BIDEN CALLS FOR POLICE REFORM AFTER TIRE NICHOLS DEATH
In his first speech at the State of the Union since the House of Representatives has a Republican majority, Biden has urged congressmen to carry out a reform of the Police after several police officers from the city of Memphis gave a beating killing a young African-American, Tire Nichols.
Specifically, the tenant of the White House has proposed giving law enforcement “the training they need” while requiring them to maintain “everyone’s safety.” Meanwhile, he has stressed the importance of providing more resources for housing, education and training in an effort to reduce crime and prevent police abuse.
However, he has reiterated that society must hold police officers accountable when they “violate” its trust.
“I know that most of the police officers (and) their families are good, decent and honorable people,” highlighted the President of the United States during his speech, this time receiving applause from both benches.
“They risk their lives every time they put on that shield. But what happened to Tire in Memphis happens too often. We have to do better, give law enforcement the real training they need,” added Biden, who moments earlier he had addressed Nichols’s parents, present at the Capitol and who have received an ovation from all of Congress.
The US president has stated that “there are no words” to describe the anguish or pain of losing a child, and has confessed that, after speaking with Nichols’ mother, she told him that “something good” had to come out of his death.
“Let’s commit to making the mother’s words come true. Something good must come out of this,” Biden said.
