By Colleen O’Connor
How can anyone justify needing an assault rifle for personal use?
How can anyone justify the horrific killings of people just shopping, going about their business, about their day, about their job in Colorado or any place else?
How can anyone justify cowardly silence and inaction in a moment of another mass killing?
No one can or should ever even try.
And no one can possibly find the words, the emotions, even the thoughts to describe what happened in Boulder, Colorado yesterday; or any of the other multiple mass murders of innocents. We, as a nation, have almost become numb.
So, I stand up and applaud the President of the United States, Joe Biden who has shown no hesitancy, whatsoever, on doing the right thing.
And I quote him:
“I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act. We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again. I got that done when I was a senator. … We should do it again.”
He called on the Senate to “immediately pass” two House-passed bills that would expand background checks for firearm sales, noting that both passed the Democratic-controlled lower chamber with some Republican support.
One of the bills would close the so-called Charleston loophole by extending the initial background check review period from three to 10 days. The bill is linked to the 2015 shooting in Charleston, S.C., in which a white supremacist killed nine Black Americans at the Mother Emanuel AME Church.
How many more of these “tragedies” need to happen to take up the vote and save the lives of other potential victims.
Bravo, President Biden. This is what being the President of the United States is all about.
Move fast and fix things. Next up, eliminate the undemocratic filibuster!
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