Biden asks the United States Congress to ban assault weapons in the country

MADRID, 3 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, appeared late this Thursday at the White House to ask Congress to ban assault weapons in the country and to establish stricter control laws.

"We have to ban assault weapons and high-capacity cartridges," stressed the president of the North American country, with 56 candles as a backdrop, to represent the victims of armed violence in all states of the country.

Biden has also called for stricter background check laws and raising the minimum age to buy guns to 21, at a time when a series of gun-related massacres has shocked the country.

"We should reinstate the assault weapons ban on high-capacity magazines that we passed in 1994 with the bipartisan support of Congress and the support of law enforcement," he added.

He has also called for new rules for safe gun storage, enacting new "red flag" laws that prevent gun sales to those with criminal records, repealing gun manufacturers' liability shields, and providing more mental health services.

"How many more carnage are we willing to accept? How many more innocent American lives must be taken before we say enough is enough?" asked the president of the United States.

The tenant of the White House has stressed that "enough is enough, enough, enough. If Congress does not act, I know that this time it will be different, and that citizens will take note and vote to remove these politicians from their posts."

"This is not about taking away anyone's rights. This is about protecting children, about protecting families. This is about protecting entire communities. This is about protecting our freedom to go to school, to go to a grocery store , to a church", he has sentenced.

The Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States during this day is debating a series of arms control measures, under the title of 'Act for the Protection of Our Children'.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said she would bring legislation to ban military-grade assault weapons to the floor next week.

Biden's speech to his compatriots comes a day after a gunman killed his surgeon and three other people at Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and on May 24 another shooting left the At least 21 people died, 19 of them children and two adults, at the Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde, in the state of Texas, in the southern United States.