At least two people died and five were injured during a shooting in Los Angeles, United States, while the country is carrying out an intense debate regarding the use of weapons.
The Los Angeles shooting could be the result of a gang fight, US media reported, mentioning that several people opened fire, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. For its part, as reported by the FOX network, one shooter was taken into police custody.
Brian Humphrey, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Fire Department, said that at least seven victims, four men and three women were taken to hospitals in the area. The shots occurred near a car show in peck park, from Los Angeles, he added.
Specific details about the circumstances of the shooting were not immediately known, but witnesses reported hearing dozens of shots.
This episode is added to a new shooting that took place on Saturday in the city of Renton, 20 kilometers from Seattle, in the state of Washington, which left one deceased and six injured, apparently due to an argument.
“The man who died is 32 years old.the other six victims have suffered gunshot wounds of varying severity, and are receiving treatment at local hospitals,” the Renton Police Department said in a statement.
The massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in which 21 people died in May, including 19 children, opened a sharp debate in the United States regarding the use of weapons. Several attempts to put new controls on the sale of weapons have failed again and again in recent years, despite the repetition of shootings.
President Joe Biden signed the “monumental” last month Bipartisan Safer Communities Actthe first legal initiative that limits, albeit timidly, the conditions for the possession of weapons of fire for 30 years.
“Time is of the essence. Lives are going to be saved,” said the president in reference to the new law. Biden hopes to use the growing outrage of Americans for mass shootings to put more pressure on lawmakers who are resisting changes to current legislation.
Biden stressed that he supports the Second Amendment to the Constitution that gives Americans the right to own firearms, but said that “the right to bear arms it is not an absolute right that dominates all others”.
The law includes provisions to help states keep guns out of the hands of those who are considered a danger to themselves or others. It also blocks the sale of weapons to those who have been convicted of abusing their partnerseven if they are not married, and cracks down on the sale of weapons to buyers convicted of domestic violence.
The gun bill was introduced, however, the same week the Supreme Court expanded the rights of gun owners. The debate is still open in the North American country.
