WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden renewed his call Sunday (May 7) for a national assault-weapons ban and other gun safety measures, a day after eight people were murdered at a Texas shopping mall in the latest mass shooting to shake the nation.
Responders, distressed witnesses and police described scenes of panic and horror north of Dallas, where video footage circulating online showed the shooter exiting a sedan in an outlet mall parking lot Saturday and firing with a semi-automatic rifle on people walking nearby.
Multiple US news outlets, all citing unnamed law enforcement sources, identified the shooter on Sunday as 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia. "Once again I ask Congress to send me a bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines," the 80-year-old Democrat said. The attack is the latest in an alarming trajectory of deadly US gun violence. Barely a week earlier, a man shot and killed five neighbors in Cleveland, Texas after one of them asked him to stop firing his rifle in his yard at night while a baby slept.
"Too many families have empty chairs at their dinner tables," Mr Biden said, as he berated his political opponents for inaction.
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