Joe Biden wants to raise minimum age for purchasing arms from 18 to 21: Will this help in fight against gun violence?

Payton Gendron and Salvador Rolando Ramos, the suspects in the Buffalo and Ulvade High School shooting, were both 18 when they bought the assault weapons used in the attacks. Experts say more states and the federal government need to pass laws raising the age to buy firearms to 21 With America reeling from a slew of shootings including mass massacres in Texas and New York, President Joe Biden on Thursday demanded that lawmakers act on gun violence. Biden’s 17-minute address, his latest appeal for tougher firearms laws, came with 56 lighted candles arrayed along a long corridor behind him to represent US states and territories suffering from gun violence. “We can’t fail the American people again,” he said, condemning the refusal of a majority of Republican senators to support tougher laws as “unconscionable.” While Biden called for a ban on assault weapons, he said lawmakers should at a minimum raise the age at which assault weapons can be purchased from 18 to 21. He said that measure to help curb rampant violence that has turned schools and hospitals into “killing fields.” Let’s see experts say and why raising the minimum age won’t be easy: Payton Gendron and Salvador Rolando Ramos, the suspects in the Buffalo and Ulvade High School shootings were both just 18 when they bought the assault weapons used in the attacks.