The president of the United States and the first lady, Jill Biden, will pay their respects to the families touched by the tragedy, according to the White House< /h2>
Biden declared on Wednesday that “the Second Amendment is not absolute” (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, and the first lady, Jill Biden, will travel on Sunday to Uvalde, Texas, “to mourn with the community that lost 21 lives in the horrific elementary school shooting,” the White House said in a brief statement Thursday.
Biden declared Wednesday that “the Second Amendment is not absolute”, while calling for new limitations on firearms after the massacre.
When the amendment passed, he said, “you couldn’t own a cannon. You couldn’t own certain types of weapons. There have always been limitations.”
Biden poured out his remarks at the White House before signing an executive order on policing on the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death.
He said he would visit Texas with the first lady, Jill Biden, in the next few days to “hopefully bring some comfort to the community.”
“We will be traveling to Texas in the next few days to meet with families (.. .) and hopefully offer some comfort to a shocked, hurt and traumatized community,” the president said Wednesday as he introduced an executive order to reform federal law enforcement protocols. The White House later confirmed that it would be Sunday.
On Tuesday afternoon, an 18-year-old armed with an automatic rifle murdered 19 children and two teachers (REUTERS/Marco Bello)
Biden defended the need to pass “common sense” gun control laws, which although they would not serve to prevent any tragedy, could have a great impact on the levels of violence with weapons in the country.
A small town in Texas, near the border with Mexico , was in mourning Wednesday after a teenager killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school, in the latest spasm of America’s gun violence epidemic
“The idea that an 18-year-old can go into a store and buy war weapons designed and promoted to kill is wrong,” lamented the president.
The president returned to make a call to confront the gun lobby.
“It is time to act”, he said while asking to the Senate to confirm the nomination of the candidate proposed by the White House to lead the government agency that oversees compliance with weapons laws.
Tuesday afternoon, < b>An 18-year-old man armed with an automatic rifle murdered 19 children and two teachers in an elementary school in the Texas town of Uvalde, before being shot dead by the Police.
The 19 children and 2 teachers were in the same class, in which the attacker barricaded himself and fired indiscriminately at those present, the Police reported.
It is the second mass murder in the country in less than two weeks; On May 14, a white supremacist murdered ten people, most of them African-Americans, in a supermarket in the town of Buffalo, New York.
Numerous Party politicians Democrats and civil leaders have called for greater controls on the purchase of weapons in the country, while the Republican authorities in Texas have focused on mental health problems that, in their opinion, are in the root of the event.
(With information from EFE)