Biden: Guns remain the leading cause of child death
US President Joe Biden spoke at the White House on the anniversary of the shooting that killed 19 students and 2 teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year.
Remembering his wife Jill Biden and those who lost their lives in front of the 21 candles lit on behalf of those who lost their lives in the attack, Biden pointed out that the measures taken in terms of weapons were not enough.
Biden asserted that AR-15-type long-barreled rifles and semi-automatic weapons should be banned, “because guns continue to be the number one cause of death among children in the United States today.” saying.
Biden said these attacks will not end until Congress passes common sense gun laws. “Not like Democrats and Republicans; As American friends, neighbors, parents, and destination partners, it’s time to act and make our voices heard.” he used the phrase.
Biden noted that since the attack in Uvalde there have been more than 650 cases of mass shootings across the country.
VALDE ATTACK
Salvador Ramos, 18, who on May 24, 2022, attacked the Robb elementary school in the town of Uvalde with an AR-15 pistol, entered two adjoining classrooms and shot and killed 19 children and 2 teachers.
Uvalde police were criticized for failing to intervene for 1 hour and 17 minutes after the attacker entered the school, despite pleas and insistence from families waiting outside.
Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw told a news conference in the days after the attack that the command center at the scene thought “children were not at risk,” so tactical teams they were waiting.
Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo also said in an interview with the Texas Tribune on June 10 that he did not take his radio with him the day of the incident, thinking it would slow him down, that he did not see himself as the chief in charge of managing the teams, and that at the time of the attack he thought that authority had been transferred to another older person. Police Chief Arredondo was suspended on June 24. (AA)