"This isn't about taking anyone's rights, it's about protecting children, protecting families, it's about protecting whole communities," Biden said. Bipartisan negotiations continued this week on a more modest measure including red flag laws, school safety provisions and potentially new rules on background checks. The House Judiciary Committee met Thursday to approve a package of bills including raising the age to buy semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21, as well as restrict large capacity magazines.īut those proposals are likely dead on arrival in the Senate, where 60 votes are needed to break a filibuster. Those measures currently lack support in Congress though a bipartisan group of Senators has been discussing a slimmed-down package of reforms.īiden has said there is little left for him to do through the executive branch, and that any significant reforms must come from Congress.Ĭongress is considering gun violence proposals on parallel tracks. "In fact, we believe we should be treating responsible gun owners as an example of how every gun owner should behave." It's not about vilifying gun owners," Biden said. "For so many of you at home, I want to be very clear, this is not about taking away anyone's guns.
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"They've been turned into a killing field," Biden said of his trip to Uvalde. The president recounted his conversations with the families of Uvalde victims, including a letter from a woman who lost her grandmother who asked Biden to "erase the invisible line that is dividing our nation." He recounted that a sister of the teacher who was killed and whose husband died of a heart attack two days later had asked him what she could tell her nieces and nephews who were now orphaned. Ten days prior, on May 14, a gunman killed 10 people at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store.
On May 24, 19 children and two teachers were killed during an elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The evening remarks from the White House came after another mass shooting in Oklahoma Wednesday, when four people were killed after a gunman opened fire inside a Tulsa hospital.īiden has repeatedly pleaded with Congress to pass stricter gun control laws as a string of mass shootings stunned the country in the past few weeks. "I believe the majority of you will act to turn outrage to make sure this issue is central to your vote. If Congress fails, I believe this time a majority of American people won't give up either," Biden said.
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