Joe Biden visited the victims

Joe Biden expressed his emotion on Sunday, May 29, in Uvalde where a shooting left 22 dead on May 24, but politically, he is faced with a question that seems impossible to resolve for a long time for a tenant. of the White House. “As soon as he arrived, he went to the scene of the shooting in front of the elementary school, then he will spend the whole afternoon with the families of the victims. It’s important for him to share their pain“, reports the journalist Camille guttinpresent on site.

But it is also in a political context “Very peculiar” that he is there since “the firearms debate is reignited“, she continues. “Its vice-president Kamala Harris explained yesterday that she simply wanted to ban the sale of assault weapons“, explains Camilla guttin. Joe Bidenhim, “wants more thorough, reinforced checks on the background of people who buy weapons“. It now remains to be seen whether this shooting, “which is far from being the first United States” remember the journalist, “may or may not move the lines on gun control“.