President Biden marked the third anniversary of the Parkland capturing by vowing robust motion towards the gun violence epidemic.
The President mentioned in a press release offered to PoliticusUSA by the White Home:
Three years in the past at this time, a lone gunman took the lives of 14 college students and three educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive College in Parkland, Florida. In seconds, the lives of dozens of households, and the lifetime of an American group, have been modified without end.
For 3 years now, the Parkland households have spent birthdays and holidays with out their family members. They’ve missed out on the expertise of sending their kids off to varsity or seeing them on their first job after highschool. Like far too many households, they’ve needed to bury items of their soul deep throughout the Earth. Like far too many households — and, certainly, like our nation — they’ve been left to wonder if issues would ever be okay.
These households will not be alone. In huge cities and small cities. In colleges and purchasing malls. In church buildings, mosques, synagogues, and temples. In film theaters and live performance halls. On metropolis avenue corners that can by no means get a point out on the night information. All throughout our nation, mother and father, spouses, kids, siblings, and buddies have recognized the ache of dropping a liked one to gun violence. And on this season of a lot loss, final 12 months’s historic enhance in homicides throughout America, together with the gun violence disproportionately devastating Black and Brown people in our cities, has added to the variety of empty seats at our kitchen tables. Right this moment, as we mourn with the Parkland group, we mourn for all who’ve misplaced family members to gun violence.
Over these three years, the Parkland households have taught all of us one thing profound. Again and again, they’ve confirmed us how we are able to flip our grief into objective – to march, manage, and construct a robust, inclusive, and sturdy motion for change.
The Parkland college students and so many different younger folks throughout the nation who’ve skilled gun violence are carrying ahead the historical past of the American journey. It’s a historical past written by younger folks in every era who challenged prevailing dogma to demand a easy fact: we are able to do higher. And we are going to.
This Administration is not going to look ahead to the subsequent mass capturing to heed that decision. We are going to take motion to finish our epidemic of gun violence and make our colleges and communities safer. Right this moment, I’m calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun legislation reforms, together with requiring background checks on all gun gross sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun producers who knowingly put weapons of battle on our streets. We owe it to all these we’ve misplaced and to all these left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to behave is now.
Biden’s assertion didn’t counsel taking weapons away, confiscating weapons, or any of the opposite nonsense that the NRA (the gun manufacturing foyer) has used to scare Republicans into opposing commonsense gun reforms. In some unspecified time in the future within the close to future, the pandemic will finish and it’ll solely be a matter of time till the subsequent horrific mass capturing happens.
After per week of being distracted by the ghost of the corrupt failed one-term president of the current previous, Joe Biden is reminding America that there’s actual work to be executed and that those that have misplaced or had their lives without end modified in shootings like Parkland, will get the change and justice that they’ve been preventing for.
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Mr. Easley is the founder/managing editor, who’s White Home Press Pool, and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.
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