guns are the number one cause of death of children in america now. but can you honestly say, senator, that there are any substantive talks on the hill right now for dealing with this epidemic? well, chris, what i can say is there are lots of substantive ideas and proposals for dealing with the epidemic. president biden called for proposing the ban. i strongly support it, but you re right. there s a difference between ideas that would address this problem, at least help to address this problem, and the ability to get votes to enact those ideas and unfortunately, this is not a partisan statement. in the republican party has refused to accept the ideas of common sense gun measures, closing the gun show loophole, banning semiautomatic assault weapons. even legislation to simply allow the atf to enforce existing laws
but many, including biden himself saw that law as just a tiny step. and since the beginning of this year, there have been at least 110 mass shootings in the u.s., leaving more than 150 dead. gun violence is now the leading cause of death among children and teens, and getting worse. during a surge of child mortality in america over the last two years, a new study says gun violence is a central factor responsible for nearly half the jump in 2020. i think that there is a certain numbness that s developing. we ve been dealing with this at least two decades of just mass shootings, public shootings, school shootings. at the same time, 456 million guns have been produced for this market, this domestic market since 1899. reporter: while the politics continues to play out over stronger gun measures, some of the nation s top law enforcement figures have been weighing in, pleading with lawmakers to take stronger action on guns. in one senate hearing, recently
up to announce a possible re-election bid for 2024 so the white house and the president have been stressing that the money that will be used to insure these deposits in that bank, they re not coming from taxpayer dollars, they won t be coming from the u.s. treasury, instead they ll be coming from an insurance fund funded by fees from banks, so this is money banks are paying into an insurance fund that will be used in this instance and we should note certainly there s problematic politics here of these two particular banks. it s silicon valley, tech gurus, crypto leaders, and that s why it s not surprising they stressed small businesses in their statement about help lastly we mentioned earlier president biden is in california today, rainy california, and he s going to announce gun measures and an executive order or two can you tell us more about what we ll hear from him?
works the homicide and violence beat and said in the last two months i haven t broken up a single fistfight, every beef, every argument between young people in bridgeport is a gunfight, involves a shooting. everybody has a weapon in dangerous neighborhoods today. weapons are ubiquitous in society and so we re in a race. right? we re passing stronger gun measures than ever before. states are passing them. finally broke through last year at the federal level, but when you have this guns in our community, easy to resort to violence for small arguments to turn into guns fired, and so that s the issue right now is the pace of gun sales especially these dangerous, untraceable guns. what do you think of in places like bridgeport, i don t know if this is just too small, but gun buybacks in cities like bridgeport? i think they re important, but i think you re right. your instinct is correct.