The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has assured this Saturday that although the tragedy cannot be “illegalized”, it is possible to work to make the US safer, after the shooting that cost his life on Tuesday of 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde (Texas).
In a speech at the University of Delaware, Biden assured that the country can do “once and for all” what needs to be done to “protect the lives of our people and our children”in a veiled reference to increased control over firearmspossession of which is a constitutional right in the US.
“In the face of such a destructive force, we must remain strong. I ask all Americans to reach out and speak up to make this nation what it can and should be,” the president said.
The US president will visit the site of the tragedy this Sunday
After Salvador Ramos, 18, entered a school in Uvalde (Texas) armed with a rifle on Tuesday and killed 19 children (most of them 10 years old) and two teachers, in the US he has resurfaced with force the debate on gun control.
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In general, politicians Democrats support measures that restrict access to arms, while the Republicans and the powerful pressure group National Rifle Association oppose them.
Biden will travel this Sunday to Uvalde, where he is expected to hold meetings with the families of the victims.
For her part, the US vice president, Kamala Harris, attended this Saturday the funeral of one of the women who died on May 15 in Buffalo (New York state), when an 18-year-old white man entered armed in a supermarket in a majority black neighborhood and killed ten people.
Over there, Harris has called for assault weapons to be banned in the country.
“We know what works to fix this, and the solution includes a ban on assault weapons,” the US vice president said.
Harris has pointed out that assault weapons were designed to kill many human beings very quickly and that they are weapons of war “that have no place in civil society.”
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