After the U.S. assassinations, Biden urgent call Congress to act on gun control

Speaking from the White House, in a live speech on Monday evening, Mr. Biden said several times “enough, enough in” and asked what it would take to change America's weapons laws.

For God's sake, how many more massacres are we willing to accept? Mr. Biden said.

The speech comes after last week's armed attack by an 18-year-old man who killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, as well as another Wednesday attack on the Tulsa State of Oklahoma, where an armed person shot and killed four people and then killed himself at a medical center.

These two events followed another 14 May attack in Buffalo, New York, where an 18-year-old white primacy opened fire in a supermarket killing 10 people and injuring three others, in what authorities have named “ractremism with racial motives”.

The president, a Democrat, called for a series of measures historically opposed by Republicans in Congress, including the ban on selling weapons to the attack, or if that was not possible, increasing the minimum age to buy those kinds of weapons at 21 from 18, as well as the abolition of a clause protecting arms producers from lawsuits for violence exercised by people using their weapons.

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Lawmakers are considering measures to expand the past checks of arms buyers and bills that would allow law enforcement officials to remove weapons from people suffering from mental illness. But every new move faces major obstacles from the Republicans, especially in the Senate, and moves to prevent offensive weapons do not have enough support to be adopted.

Despite political challenges, Biden urged Congress to act.

Mr. Biden's speech in the evening was in part intended for this issue to be the minds of voters, ahead of the Congress election in November.

More than 18,000 people have died from gun violence in the United States so far in 2022, including murder and suicide, according to the Weapons Violence Archive, a nonprofit research group.

Canada, Australia and Britain have adopted stricter weapons laws following firearms attacks in their countries, halting assault weapons and increasing controls. America has experienced two decades of massacres in schools, shops, jobs and cult objects, but has not adopted any such legislation.

A vast majority of American voters, both Republicans and Democrats, favour stronger weapons control laws, but Republicans in Congress and some moderate Democrats have been blocking such legislation for years. VOA