Joe Biden calls for tougher gun laws following mass shootings in US

 Resident Joe Biden has called for action on gun violence following a spate of mass shootings in the United States.

"Here in America, there are too many other schools, too many other everyday places that have become killing fields, battlefields," Biden said at the White House.

His comments came after massacres in Buffalo, Uwald and Tulsa engulfed communities in grief, prompting renewed calls for stricter restrictions on assault weapons.

The president has called for raising the minimum age to buy firearms from 18 to 21.
"How much more carnage are we willing to accept?" Biden asked. "Don't tell me that getting older doesn't matter," he said.

"This time we have to take our time and do something," Biden said as he called on the Senate to pass legislation requiring 10 Republican votes.

"I know how hard it is, but I'll never give up, and if Congress fails, I'm sure most of the American people won't give up this time either," he added. "I'm sure most of you will take action to turn your anger into putting this issue at the center of the vote."

He was referring to data from the Centers for Disease Control showing that "guns are the number one killer of children in America" ​​before car crashes.

"Over the past two decades, more school-aged children have died from firearms than on-duty police officers and active-duty military personnel combined," he said.

Biden insisted his call was not about "defaming gun owners" or "taking anyone's guns."

"We should take responsible gun owners as an example of how every gun owner should behave," Biden said. "It's not about taking away someone's rights, it's about protecting children, protecting families."

He approached Congress to end "ridiculous" assurances for weapon makers, which seriously limit their obligation over how their guns are utilized, contrasting it with the tobacco business, which has confronted rehashed case over its items' part in causing malignant growth and different sicknesses.

"Envision in the event that the tobacco business had been safe from being sued, where we'd be today," Biden said.

Prior on Thursday, Vice President Kamala Harris talked about the Oklahoma shooting, expressing, "We all hold individuals of Tulsa in our souls, however we likewise reaffirm our obligation to passing rational firearm security regulations."

"No more reasons. Contemplations and petitions to God are significant, however adequately not," Harris said. "We want Congress to act."