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Shortly after the presentation of measures against gun violence by US President Joe Biden, there was another serious incident of this type in the United States.

In a furniture factory in the state of Texas, an attacker shot and killed a person on Thursday and injured several others, the police said.

In addition, investigators in the state of South Carolina announced that a former professional footballer shot five people there on Wednesday.

Biden condemned gun violence as a "plague" and "eyesore" for the country.

The President presented several ordinances to curb gun violence.

Stricter rules are to be enacted for so-called ghost weapons, which can be assembled by the users themselves and have no serial numbers.

New specifications should also apply to upgraded pistols.

At the same time, Biden called on Congress to take further measures by law.

Among other things, the president demands a ban on the sale of assault rifles and more extensive background checks for gun buyers.

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However, it is highly uncertain whether a majority will be found in Congress.

Biden's Democrats only have a narrow majority there.

The powerful gun lobby NRA has many allies in Congress, especially in the ranks of the opposition Republicans.

In previous years, initiatives to tighten the lax US gun law had repeatedly failed due to resistance from the Republicans.

Shortly after Biden's address in the White House rose garden, a rifleman shot at a cabinet-making facility in the east Texas city of Bryan.

According to their own statements, the police found a fatality at the scene and several injured were hospitalized.

The perpetrator was caught.

The motives for the crime were initially unclear.

According to the authorities, the shooter was an employee of the factory.

He was arrested after a short escape.

As the local police chief Eric Buske announced, the perpetrator shot and injured a police officer.

The policeman's injuries were serious, but his condition was "stable," said the Texan Ministry of Public Security.

Former US professional footballer kills five people

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The previous day in the town of Rock Hill, South Carolina, the former professional footballer Phillip Adams shot five people and then committed suicide.

According to the authorities, the fatalities are a 70-year-old doctor, his 69-year-old wife, their two grandchildren aged five and nine and a 38-year-old boiler technician who is outside the doctor's house and himself Family worked.

Adams reportedly returned to his parents' home after the crime, where he committed suicide during a confrontation with the police.

The motives for this bloodbath were initially unclear, as the local police chief Kevin Tolson said.

Adams' father told a local broadcaster that he believed the football career had "screwed up" his son.

Adams' professional career from 2010 to 2015 was marked by injuries, including concussions.

In the past few weeks, there had already been a series of particularly serious firearm attacks in the US states of California, Colorado and Georgia, each with several deaths.

A few days ago a man shot dead four people, including a nine-year-old child, in an office building in Orange, California.

In late March, a man shot and killed ten people in a supermarket in Colorado.

Previously, an offender had killed eight people, including six women of Asian origin, in a firearm attack on three massage parlors in Georgia.