“Over the past two decades, more school-age children have died in the United States as victims of gun violence than police and soldiers combined,” President Biden said.
President of the United States Joe Biden has once again appealed to politicians to tighten the country’s arms laws. In an emotional, less than twenty-minute speech, the president said the current arms laws would turn the United States into a killer.
– How many more massacres do we accept? We cannot deceive the people of the United States again, Biden roared early in Finnish time on Friday.
– Over the past two decades, more school-age children have died in the United States as victims of armed violence than police officers and soldiers combined. Think about it, he continued.
According to Biden, the minimum requirement for reforming weapons laws would be to raise the minimum age for assault weapons from 18 to 21 years. In addition, background checks on arms buyers should be extended, large arms bans should be banned, safe storage of arms should be made mandatory and arms manufacturers should be held accountable for crimes committed with their products.
The divided Senate will not approve the changes
Major changes to gun laws in the United States are unlikely in the near future because the Democrats who drive them do not have the necessary support in the Senate. The Senate is completely divided: both Republicans and Democrats have 50 senators.
To get the changes through, Democrats would need the support of at least 60 senators.
There have been several fatal shootings in the United States recently.
Last week, an 18-year-old young man killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas school. It was the worst school shootout in the United States in nearly a decade.
Ten people were killed and three were injured in a mass shooting at a supermarket in mid-May in Buffalo, New York. Seventeen people were injured last month in a shooting in a popular nightlife area in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.