White Flowers and Sign of the Cross: Bidens Visit Racist Buffalo Killing Site

The US presidential couple paid tribute on Tuesday before a mountain of flowers to the ten victims of the racist massacre that occurred on Saturday in Buffalo.

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Shortly after his arrival in this northwestern city of USAPresident Joe Biden and his wife Jill visited the Tops supermarket where one of the worst mass shootings in recent history took place. USA.

Under a dazzling sun, they approached the mountain of flowers, messages and candles that people have been leaving at the foot of a tree in the midst of a silence broken by the wind and the clicks of the photographers’ cameras.

The first lady deposited a bouquet of white flowers. Joe Biden He crossed himself after removing his sunglasses.

The presidential couple was going to meet with relatives of the victims, members of the relief teams and local officials, before the president delivers a speech at 5:00 p.m. GMT.

The 79-year-old Democrat wants to describe the massacre “for what it is: terrorism motivated by a perverse ideology of hate, an ideology that tears at the soul of our country,” according to a White House official.

the slaughter of buffalo cruelly remember that Bidenelected with a message of unity, has so far failed to calm a country corroded by racial hatred and violence caused by firearms.

Knowing that his Democratic Party does not have a sufficient majority, he wants, despite everything, to urge Congress to “act so that the weapons of war do not circulate in our streets” or “fall into the hands of criminals or people suffering from mental illness.” ”.

– Firearms –

The president has long called for a ban on assault rifles like those used on Saturday. This is what New Zealand did after the racist massacre against mosques in Christchurch in 2019, a massacre that would have inspired the alleged murderer of buffaloPayton Gendron, 18 years old.

Biden I would like to make criminal and psychiatric background checks mandatory for people who buy firearms.

But all these initiatives have run into the Republican opposition very attached to the constitutional right to bear arms, and the powerful lobby of the sector, the NRA.

The Gun Violence Archive organization has already recorded more than 200 “mass shootings” so far this year. Ten per week on average on average.

– ‘Motivated by hate’ –

One of the most serious massacres was that of Saturday, by this young white man who, with his assault rifle, perpetrated “a crime racist motivated by hate,” according to authorities.

Before the slaughterPayton Gendron published a manifesto racist of 180 pages, in which “fascist” is defined, “racist”, “anti-Semitic” Y He claims to be a follower of the “great replacement” conspiracy theory.

Biden He usually remembers that he decided to launch the race for the White House after the demonstration of the extreme right in August 2017 in Charlottesville (Virginia, south). A woman was killed when she was run over by a neo-Nazi who rammed her car into a group of anti-racist protesters.

Since his arrival at the White House, he promises to repair “the soul” of a country that would fundamentally be united. But that he lacks the tools to act.

Constrained by his slim parliamentary majority, pitted against conservative states with sweeping prerogatives, hemmed in by a right-leaning Supreme Court, he has had to content himself with gun control bills.

Joe Bidenwhich has promised to protect African-Americans, has failed even to pass federal legislation to protect minority access to the polls, threatened in southern states, in the hands of Republicans.

Source: Elcomercio

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