” Enough ” : Joe Biden chanted this word as a plea throughout a solemn address delivered at the White House, Thursday, June 2, after a series of mass killings. The American president addressed both public opinion and elected officials in Congress, calling on them to finally act on arms control. “In the name of God, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? », he threw. This new intervention on a subject close to his heart comes as a group of nine senators from both sides is working on minimum measures, which are not even certain to garner sufficient parliamentary support. Joe Biden lent his support to the initiatives “rational, common sense”which are currently under study.
The first text, says of “red flag”, would allow the temporary seizure, by court order, of weapons belonging to a person deemed unstable and dangerous. The other bill would strengthen background checks for any potential firearm buyer. “It’s not about taking away anyone’s rights,” assured Joe Biden, addressing the Republicans. These, in a very large majority, sanctify the second amendment of the Constitution and refuse any obstacle to their freedom to acquire and bear arms, regardless of their nature. To their attention, the American president also cited the need to strengthen the mental health sector, so as not to give the impression that it was only focused on weapons to be withdrawn from the market.
As with the right to abortion, threatened by an upcoming Supreme Court decision, the White House is making gun control a key issue in the political debate, ahead of the midterm elections in November. It seems to him likely to mobilize the Democratic base, in a general depressive context, caused in particular by an inflation unprecedented for forty years. “I believe that a majority of you will act so that your indignation becomes a central issue in your vote”, said Joe Biden, sensing a classic disappointment in Congress. A day of mobilization for arms control is planned for June 11 across the country, with a large rally in Washington.
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This intervention by Joe Biden follows the death of 19 children and two teachers in an elementary school in Uvalde (Texas) and a racist massacre in Buffalo (State of New York), ten days earlier , in which ten people had perished. On Wednesday, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a man killed four people in a hospital. The assassin was angry with his doctor, who would not have relieved his pain.
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