WASHINGTON, March 6 (Prensa Latina) Democrats from Colorado introduced a bill that would ban the sale and transfer there of assault weapons while the United States surpasses 100 mass shootings today this year.
The proposal would place restrictions on the “manufacture, import, purchase, sale, offer for sale or transfer of ownership of an offensive weapon” and would prevent possession of a “rapid-fire activator,” according to The Hill newspaper.
The media noted that the project’s presentation came last Friday, when high school students from the city of Denver went to the Colorado Capitol to protest gun violence following the death of a classmate.
The local press reported that this was the first time the state legislature was formally considering a ban on assault weapons.
Colorado has been the site of several high-profile mass shootings in recent years.
Last November, an attack on an Lgbtiq+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) community nightclub took place within this confinement, leaving five dead and another 25 injured by a man armed with a gun.
Also in that state, the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School killed 12 students and a teacher.
There have been 103 shootings in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive organization, in which four or more people were injured in addition to the attacker and more than 7,500 people died from gun violence. . .
Americans have enshrined their right to own and carry firearms in the country’s constitution, the only one in the world to outnumber civilians.
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