Thousands of Americans began gathering on the country’s streets on Saturday to show favor for better gun control after recent killings, including at a school in Texas that shocked the United States.
I joined them in repeating my call to Congress: do somethingUS President Joe Biden wrote on Twitter in support of these planned protests in Washington and many other cities.
On May 24, an 18-year-old high school student carrying an assault rifle killed 19 students and two female teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, near the Mexican border. A few days earlier, an 18-year-old white supremacist had killed ten black people in Buffalo, in the northeastern United States.
These latest massacres, and the hundreds of shootings that are not making headlines, have prompted new calls to come together to demand better regulation of access to guns.
It’s time to get back on the streetsis calling for a March for Our Lives, the movement founded by victims and survivors of the Parkland, Florida high school massacre, which slowly organized, in March 2018, a large demonstration in Washington.
On Saturday, the first hundreds of demonstrators arrived at the foot of the huge obelisk symbol of the American capital. One of them was carrying a sign on which an assault rifle was drawn, the mention child killer written in red below.
On the lawn are installed thousands of vases with white and orange flowers, representing the increase in violence in the country since 2020, the year in which 45,222 people were killed by gunfire, according to the association. origin of this memorial, Giffords.
Stop killing the child
Whoever you are, come with uswrote on Friday in a column for Fox News that one of the figures of the March for Our Lives, David Hogg.
If we agree that killing children is wrong, then we need to stop these people from getting their hands on guns, or we need to act promptly so that they don’t.He added.
People is fed up, and it’s time to push Congress to do somethingthe young man added.
Joe Biden, who picked up the elements of a passionate speech delivered on June 2 following the Uvalde school massacre, called on his part on Saturday to elect elected officials. pass gun safety laws in common sense.
The Democratic president re -listed the reforms he wants from Congress: a ban on assault rifles and high -capacity magazines; strengthen background checks, including psychological evaluations, on consumers; requiring individuals to keep their weapons locked; encourage reporting of fear of action cases and make arms manufacturers more accountable.
” We can no longer betray the American people. “
Joe Biden has repeatedly promised to act against this plague that has not been stopped by successive governments.
But in a country where nearly one in three adults owns at least one gun, conservatives strongly oppose any move they believe violates human rights. law -abiding citizens.
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday a text that would ban, among other things, the sale of semi-automatic rifles to those under 21 and of high-capacity magazines.
But he has barely a chance to pass the Senate, which needs the support of ten conservatives because of qualified majority rules.
At the same time, discussions are taking place between elected representatives of the two parties to try to find a compromise text that is likely to bring together the required majority.
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Source: Radio-Canada
