President Joe Biden called on Congress to "act reasonably" and pass an assault weapons ban.
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President Joe Biden said Tuesday that he's exhausted what he can do through executive action on gun control as he called on Congress to act following the nation's latest mass shooting – a massacre at a Nashville private school that killed three children and three adults.
"I have gone the full extent of my executive authority, to do on my own anything about guns," Biden said. "The Congress has to act. The majority of the American people think having assault weapons is bizarre, a crazy idea. They're against that."
Biden renewed his push for Congress to reinstate the nation's ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, which expired in 2024, and to close loopholes for gun background checks after Monday's deadly shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville.
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FACT: 14 September, 2022 The Democrats voted against funding for ‘School Safety’ on the Senate floor. The Senator from Connecticut simply said, ‘I oppose’ and walked off the Senate floor. This would have likely been avoided had the Democrats voted, YES’.
@Open Eyes Democrats?
@Susan Keefer really so if you have no response Russian bot wow. Am so sorry school failed you really failed you 😔
@Susan Keefer God bless you
He said that at the last school massacre.
What else is he supposed to do?
@Photlam eat ice-cream and tell us all about it 🤣
He’s also going to need some ice cream, a freezer downstairs, and some children to stand up first though.
The simple fact he want to take any form of guns from law abiding citizens over implementing a better mental health system should be all that needs to be said. Since when do criminals follow the laws???
Never because they are the ones making the laws that they require us to follow.
Abolish gun free zones, protect school like we do banks, and politicians ..WITH GUNS
Bet he wants “assault weapons” banned . Certainly would do NOTHING to impact crime, but it would sure be a step in the right direction to disarming the law abiding public. Imagine being able to stop it from raining again. Would that stop drownings going forward? No. Not as long as the earth is covered in water. Exactly the same concept.
Look, I have a genuinely neutral stance on gun control, meaning, I don’t own a gun and I don’t care if they ban the guns or not. But looking at this from logical perspective – it is a no-brainer that guns shouldn’t be sold as easily as they are, to just about any idiot out there. I am not saying that we need to limit the number of guns or anything like that, what I am saying is that there has to be a permit before you go out and buy a gun. A permit that will be preconditioned with serious psych evaluation by a psychiatrist.
And if anyone is afraid that govt will rig the system to prevent responsible gun ownership, I hear ya, but there is an alternative to that as well – You can have local community elected officials that supervise permits on your local level and get paid by community money through a “responsible gun ownership” association.
Just think about it, we can do this as a nation, we don’t really need government involvement in this, but a bunch of you can still be responsible gun owners and control your own local community through localized gun control.
Here’s a thought, being that there’s so much school shootings for years now, why should there not be an arm security at schools?
I’m tired of people saying, we shouldn’t have to have a arm cop/security at schools. Ya can Shove that. Don’t matter if it’s the OC or the hood, protect our children.
That’s what matters..
People are always going to hesitate to do shootings anywhere if they know there’s someone there that will be shooting back period…
¿ Porque el año pasado entonces “H. Biden” compró dos armas de fuego en una Armería en Delaware.? In-legalmente, pues una de las preguntas es: ¿Ud. a usado algun tipo de drogas.? Y contesto: ¡NO.! eso es un delito grave al mentir en esa solicitud.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, they can’t even wait for the smoke to clear before they grab for more power.
How long would have been acceptable?
😂😂Let’s go Brandon!!
Crazy how Biden was a life long member of congress…..
Unfortunately
Yo it’s a president Stephen King so apparently we’ve been off the gold standard since I’m Reagan or Nixon
It’s the president that we’ve had ever since we’ve been off the gold standard and now I’m just a poor you know cancer to rid the riddled
But you know if nothing else I’ve got enough common sense to know that we need to be back on that gold standard.
The big question is if we’ve been off the gold standard is our gold don’t have gold anymore I mean that’s the common sense kind of thought on it right
Playing catch up and replaying old decisions and creating smoke screens , he should have been a football coach
Look, I have a genuinely neutral stance on gun control, meaning, I don’t own a gun and I don’t care if they ban the guns or not. But looking at this from logical perspective – it is a no-brainer that guns shouldn’t be sold as easily as they are, to just about any idiot out there. I am not saying that we need to limit the number of guns or anything like that, what I am saying is that there has to be a permit before you go out and buy a gun. A permit that will be preconditioned with serious psych evaluation by a psychiatrist.
And if anyone is afraid that govt will rig the system to prevent responsible gun ownership, I hear ya, but there is an alternative to that as well – You can have local community elected officials that supervise permits on your local level and get paid by community money through a “responsible gun ownership” association.
Just think about it, we can do this as a nation, we don’t really need government involvement in this, but a bunch of you can still be responsible gun owners and control your own local community through localized gun control.
Kiss it Brandon. In Brandon’s America, we will never give up our guns. You must have lost your damn mind. Well we already knew that.
He literally said he’s doing nothing. I wish he’d do something!
I agree congress needs to require all schools have armed guards. This will work. Gun control has nothing to do with guns and everything to do with CONTROL.
Joey should not be such a hypocrite, lead by example and remove his armed guards!