The initial list of executive actions that Biden announced doesn’t come close to the magnitude of either of those proposals or the sweeping changes many activists had hoped to see after the recent mass shootings that killed eight people at spas in Atlanta and 10 people at a supermarket in Boulder. His lifetime of work on gun control has been bookended by one of his most significant legislative achievements – the 1994 assault weapons ban – and one of his deepest disappointments, the failure of background check legislation following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It is a policy area that has been at the top of the President’s agenda for decades. The President finds himself staring at a harsh reality: lasting gun control reforms can only be achieved if Democratic members of Congress find consensus – not only through negotiations with their GOP colleagues but also within their own caucus, which has long been divided on this most fractious issue.įive people - including two children - were killed in a mass shooting at a Rock Hill, South Carolina home Wednesday afternoon. “Enough prayers,” he went on, “time for some action.” They’ve offered plenty of thoughts and prayers, members of Congress, but they have passed not a single new federal law to reduce gun violence,” he said. Biden administration reviewing 5,600 additional files for evidence of family separations under Trumpīut their limited scope once again underscores Biden’s broader challenge as he faces an evenly split US Senate, which he challenged in his remarks from the White House Rose Garden.White House defends hiking taxes on corporations to pay for infrastructure, signals openness to compromise.Biden’s planned pick for ATF director a fierce advocate for gun control.
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