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US President Joe Bidenrecognized that his country sends “dangerous” firearms, including assault rifles, to Mexico. The President made these statements during a speech in which he called on
US President Joe Bidenrecognized that his country sends “dangerous” firearms, including assault rifles, to Mexico.
The President made these statements during a speech in which he called on the US Congress to approve measures to reduce violence associated with firearms as soon as possible.
Biden said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador brings up the US arms trade in Mexico when he talks to him about the need to end the war. drugs spreadingespecially fentanyl.
By the way, you know what they say to me when I talk about fentanyl, about the border and all that? I’m talking to the president of Mexico, and he says to me: “Could you stop sending us weapons?”
“We are sending dangerous weapons to Mexico, especially assault weapons. They ask us to stop. But, by God! What will we be if we don’t?he asked with obvious indignation.
The speech had a fiery tone with constant references to family pain Americans who have lost their loved ones due to gun violence.
In addition, Biden expressed admiration for activists who continue to demand that the US Congress comply with gun ownership rules.
He repeated his call to Republicanswho control the US House of Representatives, so that ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that allow the gun owner to kill large numbers of people without stopping to reload bullets.
The United States passed a federal ban on assault weapons in the country in 1994, but it expired in 2004 and Congress did not renew it.
National Rifle Association (NRA) increased its influence on US policy in recent decades through donations to the political campaigns of members of Congress, and with the help of this strategy, it was possible to reduce restrictions on the carrying of weapons.
However, almost a year ago, the US Congress approved, with the support of Democrats and Republicans, a law regulating gun ownership, the most important in almost three decades.
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This law did not provide a ban on assault weapons, as Biden wanted, but it did establish restrictions such as Restriction on the purchase of weapons by persons under the age of 21 and a ban on purchases for those convicted of gender-based violence.
Firearms have killed more than 19,500 people in the United States this year, with over 11,000 suicides, according to Gun Violence Archieve, a non-profit organization that counts gun incidents in the United States.
The Mexican government estimates that about 200,000 firearms from the United States enter Mexico every year. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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