Biden Champions Efforts On Gun Reform While Blasting Trump’s Coziness To The NRA
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The president spoke to the nation's largest gun control group just hours after his son, Hunter Biden, was convicted on firearms charges.
President Joe Biden championed his administration’s work on gun reform during a speech Tuesday while attacking his predecessor, Donald Trump, and his boast that he had done “nothing on guns” while in the White House.
Biden made the remarks at an annual conference for Everytown for Gun Safety, the nation’s largest gun control group. In his speech, the president reiterated his calls for a ban on assault-style weapons and urged voters to cast a ballot in November to “overcome the unrelenting opposition of the gun lobby.”
“More children are killed in America by guns than cancer and car accidents combined,” Biden said Tuesday, also calling for lawmakers to pass a bill requiring universal background checks for firearm purchases. “My predecessor told the NRA convention recently, he’s proud of, quote, ‘I did nothing on guns when I was president.’ And by doing nothing, he made the situation considerably worse.”
“That’s why Everytown, why all of you here today are so damned important,” the president went on. “We need you. We need you to overcome the unrelenting opposition of the gun lobby, gun manufacturers, so many politicians when they oppose commonsense gun legislation.”
The Biden administration is hoping to use his work on gun reform to galvanize voters during the election, particularly at the ballot box in some battleground states, according to The Associated Press. That includes highlighting 2022’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which expanded key reforms meant to make it more difficult for some people to obtain firearms.
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