the alleged shooter died and a police officer was injured

Days after United States President Joe Biden warned that the murders were an “international disgrace”, there was a shootout on Monday at a high school in the town of Knoxville, east of Tennessee. According to the authorities, there was a dead man and a gunned down policeman

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reported that the deceased was the alleged shooter. Director David Rausch did not disclose his name, but said that i was a student from Austin-East Magnet High School.

According to a statement from the Knoxville Police Department, officers arrived at the high school around 3:15 p.m. local time after receiving a clue that a gunman was in a bathroom. They ordered him out, but he refused.

Director Rausch said when the police entered the man “allegedly fired shots, hitting a policeman”. An agent responded and i kill him.

The injured policeman was shot and taken to hospital. It’s out of danger.

Bob Thomas, the county school superintendent tweeted this afternoon that the building I was already under police protection. “Students who were not involved in the incident have already been handed over to relatives,” he said.

The incident came at a time when the national gun debate was fueled, when President Joe Biden announced limited-scope measures to tackle violence and demanded that Congress stop tolerating a problem. which he called “a problem. International shame”.

Two weeks after the mass shootings that started 18 dead In Georgia and Colorado, Biden on Thursday unveiled several initiatives to contain gun violence, but admitted he would not be able to do much on his own if Congress continues to block any attempts to increase the handgun and rifle control.

Murders in schools and other public places are a constant in a society armed to the teeth, where there is on average more than one gun per capita.

Concerned about the impossibility of putting an end to these episodes which afflict the United States, Biden announced last Thursday that he was seeking to stem the “epidemic” of national violence generated by weapons, which he considered to be “ international shame ”.

It was more than a speech because Biden launched a package of measures which, among other things, aims to tighten controls on the sale of kits to make weapons in houses without serial numbers because now it is very easy to do it.

Meanwhile, Biden is looking to push through a more ambitious measure in Congress that is to limit or ban the sale of assault rifles, but that seems very difficult to push through in a bipartisan fashion given that it is of a subject very sensitive to American culture.

It’s like a tragic tradition: after a massacre, we always talk ”thoughts and prayers “ in favor of the victims, to strengthen controls and take measures, but binding legislation is never implemented because the use of weapons is widespread and valued within the country, where a large part of the lawmakers who view any restriction as unpopular.

Although there is a Democratic majority in both houses, the issue is not so simple. Biden doesn’t seem willing to force change unilaterally, but he’s taking a series of initiatives that, while more limited, are at least a starting point. In a statement to the White House, the president said there had already been enough “prayers” and it was time to “act”.

In recent weeks, there has been a massacre in Atlanta, Georgia, with eight dead, and another in Boulder, Colorado, with 10 dead. There were also 850 incidents with firearms in which 250 people were killed and 500 injured. Approximately 40,000 people die each year in the United States as victims of pistols or rifles. Last year there were a record number of gun killings.

During the presidential campaign, Biden promised to take action on this. But one of the main obstacles is the opposition of those who consider that the Second Amendment to the Constitution, of 1791, is violated, and that it has nothing to do with the fact that today it is possible buy assault weapons containing up to 150 without much formality.