“How much more massacre do we have to endure?” asked the US President, impressed, stressing the need to raise the minimum age for purchasing these weapons, which is currently set at 18 years, to 21 years.
Biden condemned the rejection of the majority of Republican senators to adopt stricter laws on firearms in the United States, describing it as “unacceptable.”
“It is time for the Senate to do something,” he said in his address to the nation, adding that lawmakers “can never fail the American people again.”
And Thursday, five people were injured in a shooting at a cemetery in the northern state of Wisconsin, during the burial of a man who was killed in late May by police, according to security forces and a local channel.
Thursday’s events took place the day after a shooting in a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma (southeast) that killed four people, and less than ten days after the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at a school in Yuvaldi, Texas.
Since the Yuvaldi massacre, there have been more than twenty mass shootings in the United States, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
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