The students of the municipality of Flint, in Michigan (United States), they will not be able to take backpacks to school. The decision was unanimously approved on April 25 by the Flint Community Schools Board of Education and will last at least until the end of this school year. It has been taken to prevent weapons from being brought to educational centers and it also comes in a year in which the possession of weapons in the country is once again the subject of debate after more than a hundred mass shootings so far this year. anus.

In fact, this same Monday the White House once again urged Congress to pass laws that restrict the use of firearms in order to avoid shootings like the one that occurred this weekend in the town of Cleveland (Texas), in which five Honduran citizens died, including a nine-year-old boy.

“It is not too late to save lives and prevent a new shooting from happening,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre told a news conference. According to the spokeswoman, US President Joe Biden believes Congress should act “without delay” to prevent tragedies like the one from this weekend from happening again.