U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday expressed his condolences for the seven victims killed in Monday’s shooting in the coastal city of Half Moon Bay, California, with a message urging Congress to move «swiftly» on gun legislation.
Specifically, Biden again called for a law to ban assault weapons in order to «keep communities, schools, workplaces and homes safe» across the country. Just this Monday, a group of senators introduced a new bill that would raise the minimum age to purchase assault weapons to 21.
The president has pledged the federal government’s «full support» in the aftermath of the Half Moon Bay incident, which resulted in seven deaths. They join ten other fatalities from an attack last weekend in Monterey Park, also in California, during Chinese New Year celebrations.
«For the second time in recent days, California mourns the loss of loved ones in a senseless act of gun violence,» Biden lamented in a statement.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
