The American president takes a position again. Joe Biden said Wednesday, ten years after the Sandy Hook school shooting, that the United States had a “moral obligation” to regulate more guns and should “feel guilty” for not doing so.
“I am determined to ban assault rifles and high-capacity chargers,” the US president said in a statement, a measure that the Republican Party rejects for now.
“We must eliminate these weapons that have no other reason than to kill en masse,” he also wrote. “We can do this, not just for the innocent lives lost, but for the survivors who are holding out hope.”
“We should feel guilty for taking too long to fix this. We have a moral obligation to pass and enforce laws that can prevent these things from happening again,” said Joe Biden, who also ensures that he has not sat idly by.
President’s Promise
He recalls thus passing a law that would supposedly prevent potentially dangerous people from obtaining weapons, and having issued decrees in particular on “ghost weapons”, which can be made at home with 3D printers.
On December 14, 2012, 26 people, including 20 children between the ages of six and seven, were killed by a young gunman at Sandy Hook Primary School in Newtown.
The tragedy shocked the United States and brought then-President Barack Obama to tears. But this emotion did not produce really restrictive measures, in a country that has more weapons in circulation than inhabitants and where shootings mark daily life.
Joe Biden has been promising for a while to reinstate a ban on assault rifles, the weapon used by the Sandy Hook killer.
But the Republican opposition and the powerful gun lobby, the NRA, do not want a return of the ban that was in force between 1994 and 2004. According to them, it would be contrary to the US Constitution.
Source: BFM TV
