Ban assault weapons to tackle carnage of gun violence,says Biden

President Joe Biden has said that the US should ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to tackle the carnage of gun violence. The US President spoke after a string of mass shootings in the country. In a speech to the nation from the White House,  Biden said, too many everyday places in America had become killing fields. The US President said, there is need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that we passed in 1994. In the ten years it was law, mass shootings went down. After Republicans let the law expire in 2004 — and those weapons were allowed to be sold again — mass shootings tripled.

We need to:

Ban assault weapons — and if we can’t, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21.

Ban high-capacity magazines.

Strengthen background checks.

Enact safe storage laws and red flag laws.

Repeal gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability.

— President Biden (@POTUS) June 2, 2022

He further said, if Congress cannot outlaw such weapons, it should seek to raise the age to buy them from 18 to 21. Biden also called for expanding federal background checks and nationwide red flag laws, which allow law enforcement to remove weapons from anyone deemed dangerous. Over the last two decades, more school-age children have died from guns than on-duty police officers and active duty military combined. The latest mass shooting on Wednesday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, leaving four dead, follows a massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, as well as an apparently racially-motivated attack at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, leaving 10 people dead.