US gun violence 'an international embarrassment,' says Biden
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Started by metmike - April 8, 2021, 1:06 p.m.


https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/547152-us-gun-violence-an-international-embarrassment-says-biden

President Biden on Thursday decried the epidemic of gun violence in America as an "international embarrassment" as he rolled out a series of executive actions intended to address the issue.

"Nothing I’m about to recommend in any way impinges on the Second Amendment," Biden said in the Rose Garden. "They're phony arguments suggesting these are Second Amendment rights at stake with what we’re talking about. But no amendment, no amendment to the Constitution is absolute."

"So the idea is just bizarre to suggest that some of the things we’re recommending are contrary to the Constitution," he added. "Gun violence in this country is an epidemic. And it’s an international embarrassment."

Biden, flanked in the Rose Garden by Vice President Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland, outlined six measures his administration will pursue to try and curb gun violence. 

Biden directed the Justice Department to propose rules to make "ghost guns," which are homemade weapons or firearms without a serial number that are more difficult to track, subject to background checks; to propose model "red flag" legislation for states that could help law enforcement to keep firearms out of the hands of potentially dangerous individuals; and to reclassify pistols modified with stabilizer braces to be subject to the National Firearms Act.

The DOJ is also expected to issue a report on gun trafficking for the first time in years, and five federal agencies will be directed to focus grant programs more on community-based gun violence intervention. Biden is set to nominate David Chipman, a gun control advocate, to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Chipman previously worked as an ATF agent for 25 years.

Biden framed the need for action as urgent, repeatedly calling the steady drum beat of mass shootings in the U.S. an epidemic. He pointed to recent mass shootings in Atlanta, Boulder, Colo., and one this week in South Carolina that left five people dead.

Hundreds of people each day are shot in the country, Biden said, noting flags were still at half-staff for the victims of the Atlanta shooting when the Boulder shooting happened less than a week later.

"This is an epidemic for God's sake, and it has to stop,” he said.

Attendees in the Rose Garden included numerous advocates for stronger gun laws, including former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.), who was shot in 2012, parents of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings of 2012 and 2018, respectively, and Brandon Wolfe, a survivor of the 2017 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando.

      

Biden reiterated his calls for Congress to take action by passing three House-passed measures on the issue, just as he did last month after the Colorado shooting. The president urged the Senate to pass the House bills that would expand background checks, close the so-called Charleston loophole and reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act. All three were passed with bipartisan support in the House.

“They’ve offered plenty of thoughts and prayers… but they’ve passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence,” Biden said. “Enough prayers. Time for some action.”

metmike: I'm actually for much stricter background checks and stopping sales of high powered weapons but Biden's verbiage of "enough prayers"  is clearly a derogatory comment aimed at the side that prays........probably slipped out as one of his gaffe's but suggests to us what his mentality might be.

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By TimNew - April 8, 2021, 1:59 p.m.
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Get rid of 3 or 4 dem run cities with,BTW, very strict gun laws, and we drop to among the lowest in per-capita gun violence.

By mcfarm - April 8, 2021, 7:05 p.m.
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Its just too damn funny. It really is. To set here and listen to Biden and his diverse and highly unqualified cabinet come out day after day and either out right lie or be lost on all facts. You pick. Today was another prime example. Gun show loop holes??? WTF, anybody with any smarts knows any retailer either at the corner or at gun shows must follow the same rules....yes, a check. Also anyone with any smarts know quite well that velocity is the killer and guns stock aids that aid in shooting short barreled guns add nothing despite Bidens foolish claim of being more lethal. Man is a complete fool and his cabinet is worse...America please stop this madness.

By bear - April 10, 2021, 5:50 p.m.
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gun violence is also an embarrasment in mexico, where guns are illegal, and violent gangs control half the country. 

i guess that is what he would prefer for the u.s.

By GunterK - April 11, 2021, 3:20 p.m.
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the Biden administration apparently gets all their info from the MSM. It would be a good idea, from time to time, to read foreign papers.

They had some horrific mass shootings in European countries.

https://crimeresearch.org/2018/02/with-39-killed-in-tunisia-attack-the-top-three-mass-public-shootings-are-outside-the-united-states/

Not surprising... our president does't even know what's going on at our southern border.

By metmike - April 11, 2021, 3:59 p.m.
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