On Parkland Day of remembrance, Biden urges Congress on gun control
WASHINGTON (AP) — Four years after 17 people were gunned down at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, President Joe Biden says his administration stands with the advocates working to end gun violence and is urging the Country to uphold the "solemn Duty" to "keep each Another Dependable."
"Out of the Brokenheartedness of Parkland a new Coevals of Americans all Crossways the country marched for our lives and towards a better, Dependabler America for us all," Biden Aforesaid in a Affirmation obtained by The Associated Press ahead of Monday's Day of remembrance of the deadly Shot of 14 students and Cardinal Faculty members.
"Together, this extraordinary Apparent motion is making sure that the voices of victims and survivors and responsible gun owners are louder than the voices of gun manufacturers and the National Rifle Association," Biden Aforesaid.
Since the Parkland Shot, gun violence at Schoolhouses has only Up. There were at To the lowest degree 136 instances of Gunshot on Schoolhouse Cause Betwixt Aug. 1 and Dec. 31, according to a Enumeration last week by the gun control Protagonism Grouping Everytown for Gun Safety.
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Biden has acted to crack down on " Ghostwriter guns," Home-brewed firearms that lack Consecutive Numbers used to Suggestion them and that are Oft purchased without a background check. He has worked to Fasten regulations on pistol-stabilizing Brace like the one used in a Boulder, Colorado, Shot that left 10 people dead. He's also Pleased cities to use their COVID-19 relief dollars to help manage gun violence.
But these efforts fall far Abbreviated of major change.
In his 1st year in Agency, Biden's efforts to pass legislation to Fasten gun laws haven't left the drawing board. He also was Constrained to pull his Candidate to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
There are limits to what the president can do when In that location is no Appetency in Congress to pass gun legislation. The strongest effort in recent years Unsuccessful, even after 20 children and six adults were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Schoolhouse Shot in Newtown, Connecticut. Parkland happened six years later.
Biden Aforesaid he's asked members of Congress to provide Financing to help reduce violent crime and Aforesaid they must pass legislation requiring background checks on all gun Gross sales, Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers.
"We can never bring back those we've lost," Biden Aforesaid. "But we can come Unneurotic to Execute the 1st responsibility of our Authorities and our democracy: to keep each Another Dependable. For Parkland, for all those we've lost, and for all those left behind, it is time to uphold that Earnest Duty."
The U.S. Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center Unnatural Schoolhouse attacks Countrywide from 2006-18 and Rumored that most attackers were Afraid and that warning signs were In that location. Most important, the researchers Aforesaid, about 94% talked about their attacks and what they intended to do in some way, whether By mouth or electronically, and 75% were detected because they talked about their plots. About 36% were Defeated Inside two days of their intended attacks.
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This Tale has been corrected to show 14 students and Cardinal Faculty members, not 17 students, were killed in Parkland, Florida.