US President Joe Biden will deliver a speech to the nation at 7:30 pm [HAE] Thursday night to urge elected members of Congress to take action to restrict access to guns, after a series of killings rocked the United States.
According to the White House, he will try to convince lawmakers pass common sense laws to combat the epidemic of violence that kills every day. The nature of the desired laws was not disclosed.
His statements come just a week after an 18-year-old 19 students and 2 female teachers were shot dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, before being shot after a wrongful police operation.
Ten days earlier, an 18-year-old white supremacist shot ten black people and injured three more at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. He was charged with murder, racially motivated hate crime and an act of domestic terrorism.
Also Wednesday, a man dissatisfied with the care he received at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, entered with a handgun and semi-automatic rifle to shoot to kill the doctor who treated him and three other people then to commit suicide.
President Biden promised on Monday keep pressing for tighter gun control, a hope that remains very uncertain in the current political climate, where the right to own guns is considered sacred by part of the population and most elected Republican.
The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which holds this right, is never perfect pleaded with the president of America, inviting Republicans reasonable to act in this direction.
Source: Radio-Canada
