Ten years after the massacre at an elementary school in the city of Sandy Hook, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, asked society to combat armed violence. “We must feel social guilt for taking so long to resolve this issue,” Biden said today. “We have a moral obligation to pass and enforce legislation that can prevent something like this from happening again.”
We owe it to the victims and their families. In December 2012, a 20-year-old man fatally shot 20 schoolchildren and six teachers in Newtown, Connecticut. The act unleashed great horror in the country.
That year, Congress passed a bipartisan anti-gun violence bill, but it fell far short of Biden’s reform proposals. Earlier, an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.