U.S. President Joe BidenWASHINGTON Feb 16 U.S. President Joe Biden spoke out about the need to be financially responsible gun makers if they don't change the way they do business. «Together we can get the message out to gun makers and dealers: they can either change their business model to be part of the fight against gun violence or face financial responsibility,» Biden said in a statement. due to a pre-trial settlement of relatives of the victims of a school shooting in the United States. Compensation of $ 73 million from the weapons company Remington was obtained by the families of five children and four adults from those killed in December 2012 at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut: then 20-year-old the man killed 26 people, 20 of them were children 6-7 years old, before the attack on the school, the criminal shot his mother, when law enforcement officers arrived at the scene, the man committed suicide. in a lawsuit in 2015, they said the company should not sell such a dangerous weapon: the perpetrator used a semi-automatic gun, which was later banned from sale in several states. Biden said in a statement that entering into a compensation agreement will not erase the pain of parents who have lost children. but «this will begin the necessary work to hold manufacturers accountable for the creation of weapons of war and their irresponsible distribution.» According to open sources, 49 mass shootings have occurred in 23 states and the District of Columbia since the beginning of the year.
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