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发帖数: 12756 | 1 Biden asks Congress to ban ‘weapons of war on our streets’ as he uses 3rd
anniversary of Parkland shooting to demand gun control
14 Feb, 2021 16:21 / Updated 11 hours ago
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Biden asks Congress to ban ‘weapons of war on our streets’ as he uses 3rd
anniversary of Parkland shooting to demand gun control
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President Joe Biden has released a statement allowing a closer look at what
his “commonsense” policy on gun laws will be, demanding, among other
things, that Congress pass universal background checks and ban “assault
weapons.”
“Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms,”
Biden said in his Sunday statement. The timing matched the third anniversary
of the Parkland shooting, which saw a gunman open fire at Marjory Stoneman
Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 and wounding another 17.
Biden has long promised to put his weight behind stricter gun laws if he
were elected president and his ideas run down the list of common demands gun
-control advocates often push for. The president is calling for universal
background checks on all gun sales, banning high-capacity magazines, an “
assault weapons” ban, and “eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who
knowingly put weapons of war on our streets.”
“We owe it to all those we’ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve
to make a change. The time to act is now,” Biden said.
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Though he is calling on Congress to act, Biden promised his administration
will “not wait for the next mass shooting” to take action.
With Democrats holding a majority in the House and an even split in the
Senate leaving Vice President Kamala Harris as the tie-breaking vote,
Democrats find themselves in a slightly favorable position when it comes to
potential new gun laws.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last week that Biden is “
personally committed” to pushing new “gun safety measures” while in
office.
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Leaders of gun-control advocacy groups also recently met with Susan Rice,
who leads the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond,
director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, and walked away
confident new gun laws will be pushed through, not only via Congress but by
executive action as well.
“President Biden is committed to taking executive action and working with
Congress to put in place reforms that will keep this country’s kids and
communities safe,” Peter Ambler, head of the gun-control group Giffords,
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发帖数: 13752 | 2 “eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of
war on our streets.”
这是要对枪厂下手。Remington已经赔得破产了。 |
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