After Texas school shooting, Biden declares the second amendment not absolute
After 19 students and two adults were killed at a Texas school by a shooter, President Joe Biden has decried current gun laws in the United States. The Second Amendment, he said, "is not absolute," and there is reform that didn't negate it.
“When in God’s name will we do what needs to be done to, if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of the carnage that goes on in this country?” Biden said in a White House address on Wednesday.
“I spent my career, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and as vice president, working for commonsense gun reforms … as a senator and a vice president,” he said.
The Texas governor Greg Abbott has framed the problem as something of a mental health issue rather than as a matter of firearm accessibility.
Texas’ governor said that any person who conducts such an attack has mental health issues. “We as a government need to find a way to target that mental health challenge and do something about it,” Abbott said.
26 May 2022
