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Turn, Turn, Turn: A Time for Gun Control?
“I will meet with Congress on guns, I promise you,” President Biden said today.
“There’s an expression by an Irish poet that says too long a suffering makes a stone of the heart,” President Joe Biden told visiting New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today at the White House.
President Biden has, by his estimation, been to the aftermath of more mass shootings than any other President in history.
“We need your guidance,” Mr. Biden told Prime Minister Ardern frankly, referring to New Zealand’s success in outlawing guns after the gun massacre in Christchurch in 2019. “You understand that your leadership has taken a critical role on this global change, it really has.”
Biden has spent time in meeting with the families of those slain in the Uvalde and Buffalo mass shootings since last week.
“Much of it is preventable,” President Biden said of the ongoing violence. “And the devastation is amazing.”
House Democrats appear to on-board with Biden’s plans to tighten gun restrictions. Members of Congress have already drafted eight gun control bills in the last week.
The package of bills, which House Democrats are calling “Protecting Our Kids,” includes, among other measures, a ban on high-capacity magazines and bump stocks. The…