US President Joe Biden renews calls for Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as to enact universal background checks and end immunity for gun manufacturers.
US President Joe Biden on Sunday, May 7, called on Congress to pass gun control bills in the wake of yet anotherThe Democratic president renewed calls for Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as to enact universal background checks and end immunity for gun manufacturers. There is little chance the narrowly divided House and Senate would pass such legislation, although polls show most Americans support background checks.
By Sunday evening, law enforcement had not released details about a possible motive or the identities of the victims. A family member identified one of the slain victims on social media as Christian LaCour, a security guard. At least one of the individuals, lifeless and bloody, appears to be a young child. Reuters was able to verify the video was taken at the mall where the shooting took place.
. The nonprofit group defines a mass shooting as any in which four or more people are wounded or killed, not including the shooter.The tragedy in Allen, which happened just over a week after another deadly shooting in the Texas town of Cleveland, reignited the heated debate over gun control in the United States.
“There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of anger and violence that’s taking place in America,” he said. “We are working to address that anger and violence by going to his root cause, which is addressing the mental health problems behind it.”
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