After a series of mass killings, the American president makes arms control a key question of political debate, as we approach the mid-term elections, in November.
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“Fairly”: Joe Biden chanted this word as a support throughout a solemn speech pronounced in the White House, Thursday, June 2, after a series of mass killings. The American president addressed both public opinion and elected officials in the congress, to call them to act finally in terms of arms control. “In the name of God, how many carnages are we ready to accept?” He said. This new intervention on a subject that is close to his heart comes when a group of nine senators on both sides work on minimum measures, which are not even some to collect sufficient parliamentary support. Joe Biden has supported “rational, common sense” initiatives, which are currently being studied.
The first text, known as the “red flag”, would allow temporary seizure, by judicial decision, weapons belonging to a person deemed unstable and dangerous. The other project would strengthen the prior checks of the history, for any buyer potential for firearm. “It is not a question of removing rights to anyone,” assured Joe Biden, to the address of 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 carry weapons, regardless of their nature. For their attention, the American president also cited the necessary reinforcement of the mental health sector, so as not to give the impression that it was only focused on the weapons to be withdrawn from the market.
As on the right to abortion, threatened by an upcoming decision of the Supreme Court, the White House makes the control of firearms a key question of political debate, as we approach the mid-term elections, in November. It seems to him likely to mobilize the Democratic base, in a depressed general context, caused in particular by unprecedented inflation for forty years. “I believe that a majority of you will act so that your indignation is transformed into a central issue in your vote,” said Joe Biden, planning a classic disappointment at Congress. A day of mobilization for armaments control is scheduled for June 11 throughout the country, with a large gathering in Washington.
political helplessness
This intervention by Joe Biden is part of the death of 19 children and two teachers in an elementary school in Uvalde (Texas) and a racist massacre in Buffalo (New York State), ten days earlier, in which ten people had perished. Wednesday, in Tulsa (Oklahoma) on Wednesday, a man killed four people in a hospital. The assassin wanted his attending physician, who would not have relieved his pains.
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