address making a new plea yet again for gun action. telling congress in the wake of more mass shootings, enough is enough. more kids and on duty cops killed by guns. more kids than soldiers killed by guns. for god s sake, how much more carnage are we willing to accept? how many more innocent american lives must be taken before we say enough? enough. this time we have to take the time to do something. this time, it is time for the senate to do something. among the president s demands to congress, either ban assault weapons or raise the minimum purchase age to 21 years old. fact is, many of these proposals have no realistic chance of passage. there is little to no gop support for them. that s exactly right. even after what happened this week, and last. the president s speech comes as democrats on a house committee did pass a string of proposals and got in a fiery debate with a republican colleague, small bipartisan group of senators is still working behind the scenes, but
he urged congress to take action. he listed several specific measures that he would like to see. first among which is this assault weapons ban that president biden worked on back in the 1990s, lapsed in 2004 and he would like that to come back. but he made clear he knows that s not going to happen and he said at a minimum then congress should limit increase the minimum age to purchase those weapons to 21. we see him talking about expanding background checks, creating safe storage requirements that would make people who don t lock up their guns properly liable for anything that happens with them. he talked about national red flag laws, repealing the liability shield for gun manufacturers and also expanding mental health services for students in particular. all of these things are things president biden would like to see, but few of them are likely to actually pass through congress. these bipartisan negotiations that are taking place, they re looking at a really narrow set of issues, b