the president of USAJoe Biden, asked himself this Tuesday in a speech to the nation when his country will stand before the “lobby” of weapons, after the death of 18 minors in a shooting at an elementary school in Texas.
“As a nation we have to ask ourselves when in God’s name are we going to stand up to gun lobbyists, when in God’s name are we going to do what deep down we know needs to be done,” Biden said. in a speech at the White House after the massacre in the town of Uvalde, Texas.
The shooting is the second largest in a school in a decade in the United States and Biden recalled in his speech how 26 people, including 21 children, died at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut ten years ago.
Noting that since then there have been 900 shootings with firearms in schools in the country, including the one at Parkland High School in 2018 with 17 deaths, Biden regretted having to relive such an episode.
“I’m tired. We have to act. We all know what to do”, stressed the president, visibly affected, once again sending a message to the legislators of his country to regulate gun control.
He wondered why Americans still have to live with these “butcher shops” and why this is the only country where such killings take place.
And he insisted on the need to turn “pain into action” and have the “courage” to confront pressure groups in favor of arms. “For every parent, for every citizen of this country, we have to make it clear to every elected official in the US that now is the time to act,” he repeated.