World / US President Joe Biden signs landmark gun measure says lives will be saved

US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed an anti-gun violence bill considered one of the most important of the past few decades. The bill received support from both Democratic and Republican political parties. After a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, the country was under pressure from the government for a tougher arms-buying law. Prior to the recent series of shootings, including the school incident, such a bill was considered unimaginable.

After signing the bill, Biden said at the White House, "It will save people's lives." The message of the families of those killed in the firing incidents was that we should do something. Today we did it.' On Thursday, the bill was approved by the Senate, the upper house of the US Parliament, and on Friday, the lower house, the House of Representatives. Now with Biden signing the bill, the bill has become a law.

Biden gave approval before leaving for Europe

Biden signed the bill just before leaving Washington for two summits in Europe. Under the $13 billion bill, there will be strict background checks of underage gun buyers and states will be given the right to take weapons from people deemed dangerous. In addition, funding will be provided to local programs for school safety, mental health and violence prevention. This law is extremely important in the context of the shooting incidents that rocked America.

The biggest step in a few decades against gun violence

This is the biggest step taken by lawmakers in the last few decades against gun violence in the country. The Republican Party had been hindering Democratic efforts to ban arms sales for years, but in the wake of the shootings in New York and Texas, some Republican lawmakers, in addition to the Democratic Party, decided this time that Parliament's inaction in this regard was no longer the case. is not acceptable. After two weeks of talks, a group of lawmakers from both the parties reached an agreement to introduce the bill to prevent gun violence.