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Biden tightens some gun controls, says much more needed
ALEXANDRA JAFFE, AAMER MADHANI and MICHAEL BALSAMO | Associated Press
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden, in his first gun control measures since taking office, announced a half-dozen executive actions today aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation that he called an “epidemic and an international embarrassment.
“The idea that we have so many people dying every single day from gun violence in America is a blemish on our character as a nation,” Biden said during remarks at the White House.
Family members whose children were killed at the Sandy Hook, Connecticut, school massacre in 2012 and the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018 attended the hearing, and Biden thanked them for attending, saying he understood it would remind them of the awful days when they got the calls.
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President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, and Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden at the White House, Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Washington.AP Photo/Andrew Harnik
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“It is actually a public health crisis,” Biden said during remarks at the White House.
Greeting the families of gun violence victims and activists, he assured them: “We’re absolutely determined to make change.”
His Thursday announcement delivers on a pledge Biden made last month to take what he termed immediate “common-sense steps” to address gun violence, after a series of mass shootings drew renewed attention to the issue. His announcement came the same day as yet another shooting, this one in South Carolina, where five people were killed.
“It is actually a public health crisis,” Biden said during remarks at the White House.
Greeting the families of gun violence victims and activists, he assured them: “Were absolutely determined to make change.”
His Thursday announcement delivers on a pledge Biden made last month to take what he termed immediate “common-sense steps” to address gun violence, after a series of mass shootings drew renewed attention to the issue. His announcement came the same day as yet another shooting, this one in South Carolina, where five people were killed.
But Thursday’s announcement underscores the limitations of Biden’s executive power to act on guns. They include moves to tighten regulations on homemade guns and provide more resources for gun-violence prevention, but fall far short of the sweeping gun-control agenda Biden laid out on the campaign trail.
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Biden tightens some gun controls, says much more needed
President Biden takes action on gun control By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, AAMER MADHANI and MICHAEL BALSAMO | April 8, 2021 at 7:36 AM EDT - Updated April 8 at 3:27 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) â President Joe Biden, in his first gun control measures since taking office, announced a half-dozen executive actions Thursday aimed at addressing a proliferation of gun violence across the nation that he called an âepidemic and an international embarrassment.â
âThe idea that we have so many people dying every single day from gun violence in America is a blemish on our character as a nation,â Biden said during remarks at the White House.