President Joe Biden honored the fourth anniversary of the taking pictures at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Top College in Parkland, Florida, and known as on Congress to behave and cross gun keep watch over regulation.
“On February 14th, 2018, a gunman stole the lives of 14 scholars and three educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Top College,” Biden wrote on Twitter.
He added: “As of late we mourn with the Parkland households whose lives have been upended and stand with the ones operating to finish the epidemic of gun violence. Congress should act.”
On February 14th, 2018, a gunman stole the lives of 14 scholars and three educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Top College. As of late we mourn with the Parkland households whose lives have been upended and stand with the ones operating to finish the epidemic of gun violence. Congress should act.
— President Biden (@POTUS) February 14, 2022
Biden additionally issued an authentic commentary.
“In this tough day, we mourn with the Parkland households whose lives have been upended immediately; who needed to bury a work in their soul deep within the earth,” he mentioned. “We pray too for the ones nonetheless grappling with wounds each visual and invisible. And, as we take into accout the ones misplaced in Parkland, we additionally stand with American citizens in each and every nook of our nation who’ve misplaced family members to gun violence or had their lives without end altered via a taking pictures, in tragedies that made headlines and in ones that didn’t.”
“Out of the heartbreak of Parkland a brand new era of American citizens all around the nation marched for our lives and in opposition to a greater, more secure The united states for us all,” Biden persisted. “In combination, this ordinary motion is ensuring that the voices of sufferers and survivors and accountable gun homeowners are louder than the voices of gun producers and the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation.”
In October, Nikolas Cruz, the gunman chargeable for the taking pictures, pleaded accountable to 17 counts of first-degree homicide and 17 counts of tried homicide in the case of the killings.
Previous, Manuel Oliver – the daddy of Joaquin Oliver, who died within the taking pictures – climbed a building crane close to the White Area with the intention to carry consideration to gun violence.
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— Manuel Oliver (@manueloliver00) February 14, 2022
The Metropolitan Police Division later took him into custody.
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