US President Joe Biden believes it is time to stand up to the gun lobby after the latest school shooting in Texas, in which 19 children and two adults were killed on Tuesday. Not since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 have more people been killed in a school shooting. Then 26 people were killed, of which 20 children. – It is time to turn this pain into action for every parent, for every citizen in this country. We must make it clear to every single elected official in this country: It is time to act, said the President. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy asks his colleagues why they do not want to do anything about the massacres in the United States. – What are we doing? Democratic Senator Chris Murphy was clearly marked when he begged his colleagues to finally get through legislation to get rid of the shooting episodes in the United States. – What are we doing? What are we doing? Just days after a man walked into a grocery store to shoot down African-American customers, we face another Sandy Hook. What are we doing? There are more mass shootings than there are days in the year. Our children live in fear, said a head-shaking Murphy on the senate floor. – Why do you spend so much time becoming a senator? Why bother to get this job, to get in a position of power, when the answer we come up with when more and more are slaughtered and our children fear for their lives is that we do nothing. What are we doing? Why are you here? asked Murphy, who represents Connecticut, where the Sandy Hook massacre took place in 2012. Annual meeting of the gun lobby this weekend The powerful gun lobby will gather for the NRA’s annual meeting in Houston, Texas. The National Rifle Association (NRA) is a weapons organization that refers to itself as “the United States’ foremost protector of the Second Constitutional Amendment,” which guarantees the right to own weapons. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former President Donald Trump, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbot, among others, will attend the meeting. – We have seen far too many such shooting episodes. No parent should have to bear the grief of burying their child. We must come together, as a nation, and support Uvalde as they try to heal from this sad loss, Cruz writes on Twitter about the shooting episode. Do not think there will be changes Advisor in Civita and US expert Eirik Løkke tells NRK Nyhetsmorgen that there is a great danger that there will be no significant changes. – Unfortunately, there is reason to believe that this will happen again. The polarization in the US between the Democrats and the Republicans, especially when it comes to weapons, means that there is little reason to believe that anything will happen, says Løkke. He thinks there is not much new with speeches like Murphy’s, and refers among other things to the strong speech to Obama after Sandy Hook.
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