Biden vs. gun lobby

 

Biden vs. gun lobby

By ALEX WICKHAM

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BREAKING OVERNIGHT: U.S. President Joe Biden delivered an emotional address to the American people in which he vowed to defeat the gun lobby following a horrific mass shooting at a school in Texas that killed 19 children and at least two adults. The children were aged between seven and 10.

 

Biden words: “How many scores of little children who witnessed what happened — seen their friends die as if they’re in a battlefield, for god’s sake. To lose a child is like having a piece of your soul ripped away. There’s a hollowness in your chest. When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby? … I am sick and tired of it. We have to act. And don’t tell me we can’t have an impact on this carnage.”

 

The shooting came … 10 days after a racist mass killing in Buffalo, New York, which saw 10 people murdered in a predominantly Black community. It is nearly 10 years since the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting that killed 26 people. “Since then, there have been over 900 incidents of gunfires reported on school grounds,” Biden said in his address — an almost incomprehensible statistic.

 

Former President Barack Obama tweeted: “Our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that have shown no willingness to act in any way that might help prevent these tragedies.”