Newsnomics AJAY ANGELINA reporter | President Joe Biden reiterated his call to pursue a ban on assault
weapons following the latest mass shooting at a gay night club in Colorado Springs on Saturday and a
Walmart in Virginia on Tuesday left 11 people dead, while visiting a firehouse on Nantucket Island,
Massachusetts.
Other mass shootings occurred throughout the country over the past week. On Sunday, four people in
Oklahoma has lost their lives at a marijuana farm. Meanwhile, a mother and her three kids were killed in
Richmond, Virginia, on Friday.
Biden said it’s "sick" that the U.S. continues to sell semiautomatic weapons.
"The idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It’s just sick. It has no social
redeeming values. Zero. None. Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturer,"
he said
The chance of a ban assault weapons in USA looks actually impossible now because the Republicans have
control of the House of Representatives and there is a need for any legislation to get 60 votes to break a
filibuster in the Senate. However, talking to the NBC News, the US president said that will not stop him from
trying.
“I’m going to try,” Biden said. “I’m going to do it whenever I ...” he continued. “I got to make that assessment
as I get in and start counting the votes.” as reported by NBC News.
It is notable that more than 600 shootings with multiple victims have occurred this year in the USA,
according to Gun Violence Archive.
