United States President Joe Biden has urged lawmakers to act after a series of shootings in major cities killed at least 10 people, underscoring the country’s ongoing struggle with gun violence.
In a White House statement released on Tuesday, Biden called on Republican legislators to join him in putting forward “commonsense reforms”, including a ban on assault weapons, universal background checks and an end to legal immunity for gun manufacturers.
“Over the last few days, our nation has once again endured a wave of tragic and senseless shootings in communities across America — from Philadelphia to Fort Worth, Baltimore to Lansing, Wichita to Chicago,” Biden said.
The wave of shootings began on Friday, as the US embarked on the start of a long holiday weekend, culminating on Tuesday with Independence Day.
On Friday night in Chicago, Illinois, one person was killed and three others wounded in a sidewalk shooting. Then, early on Sunday, two more mass shootings broke out: one at a club in Wichita, Kansas, that wounded nine and another at a block party in Baltimore, Maryland, that left two dead and 28 injured.
The violence continued on Monday, when gunfire in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania killed five and hurt two children. A shooting that same evening in Fort Worth, Texas, killed three after a neighbourhood festival. And in the early hours of Tuesday, an altercation at a party in Lansing, Michigan, led to a shooting that injured five.
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