and were just weeks away from summer break. he crashed his car on the school and was seen running on campus carrying two firearms which were purchased by ramos legally on his 18th birthday. two ar-style 15 rifles were posted. a lone gunman killed 20 children in the first and second grades as well as six adults in newtown, kentucky. joe biden said it s time to stand up to the gun lobby and pass common sense regulations. i am sick and tired. we have to act. and don t tell me we can t have an impact on this carnage. i spent my career as a senator and as a vice president working to pass common sense gun laws. we can t and won t prevent every tragedy, but we know they work and have positive impact. when we passed the assault weapons ban, mass shootings went down. when the law expired, mass shootings tripled. the idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons is just wrong. what in god s name do you need an assault weapon for except to kill som
and one of the things about long rifles they re easier to they don t maneuver as well, but it s easier to put a shot accurately than it is with a pistol. when you talk about an ar-style weapon there s no recoil. you can sit there shooting one after another sph. there s negligible recoil. the u.s. president mentioned since the sandy hook massacre there s been 900 incidents of gunfire reported on school grounds and the fbi active shooter report released on monday. from the period 2017 to 2021 active shooter incident data reveals an upward trend, number of incidents revealed in 2021 reveals a 52.5% increase from 2020 and get this a 96.8% increase in 2017. i guess if there is a plan to