‘We can do it again’: Joe Biden vowed again on Wednesday to ban assault rifles, in a serious speech, during a memorial service for the massacre, notably, ten years ago, at Sandy Hook School.
“It worked,” “a significant number of lives were saved,” said the US president, recalling that the United States had banned semi-automatic weapons between 1994 and 2004.
Joe Biden was attending the 10th annual “National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence” at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington. After expressing his admiration for the families and friends of the victims, as well as the survivors around him, he invited the audience to observe a minute of silence.
More than 600 shootings since the beginning of the year
American news is peppered with gun attacks that spare no part of activities of daily life, from schools to places of worship and supermarkets, but of which only the deadliest or most egregious remain one.
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been more than 600 mass shootings (at least four people killed or injured) in the United States since the beginning of 2022.
Joe Biden has approved sideline regulatory measures by executive order. But most Republican lawmakers and the powerful gun lobby, the NRA, oppose any truly binding legislation, arguing it would be unconstitutional.
Source: BFM TV
