United States: a minimum agreement between senators for increased control over firearms
Protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge during the “March for Our Lives” rally for tougher gun control laws in New York on June 11, 2022. AFP – YUKI IWAMURA
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In the United States, senators have agreed on new measures for gun control.
An agreement between Republicans and Democrats which must still be approved by Congress, and which falls short of the reforms demanded since the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde.
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With our correspondent in New York,
Loubna Anaki
It's a deal for lack of anything better.
After weeks of negotiations, ten Republicans and ten Democrats presented a list of proposals likely to win the necessary votes in both houses of Congress.
The text plans to increase the budget allocated to mental health and to strengthen safety in schools.
It also plans to strengthen laws that allow the confiscation of weapons from someone deemed dangerous to society and to themselves.
Measures far from what Joe Biden, the majority of elected Democrats and associations fighting against gun violence are calling for.
In the proposed text, no ban on the sale of assault rifles, no ban on the sale of weapons to at least 21 years old.
“
The proposal does not do what needs to be done
,” the US president acknowledged in a statement, adding that it was still an important step in the right direction.
If passed by Congress, it would be the first gun control legislation in 28 years.
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