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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden-Harris Administration Announces Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence Public Health Epid
These are great executive actions https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/07/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-initial-actions-to-address-the-gun-violence-public-health-epidemic/
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing six initial actions to address the gun violence public health epidemic. The recent high-profile mass shootings in Boulder taking the lives of 10 individuals and Atlanta taking the lives of eight individuals, including six Asian American women underscored the relentlessness of this epidemic. Gun violence takes lives and leaves a lasting legacy of trauma in communities every single day in this country, even when it is not on the nightly news. In fact, cities across the country are in the midst of a historic spike in homicides, violence that disproportionately impacts Black and brown Americans. The President is committed to taking action to reduce all forms of gun violence community violence, mass shootings, domestic violence, and suicide by firearm.
President Biden is reiterating his call for Congress to pass legislation to reduce gun violence. Last month, a bipartisan coalition in the House passed two bills to close loopholes in the gun background check system. Congress should close those loopholes and go further, including by closing boyfriend and stalking loopholes that currently allow people found by the courts to be abusers to possess firearms, banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines, repealing gun manufacturers immunity from liability, and investing in evidence-based community violence interventions. Congress should also pass an appropriate national red flag law, as well as legislation incentivizing states to pass red flag laws of their own.
But this Administration will not wait for Congress to act to take its own steps fully within the Administrations authority and the Second Amendment to save lives. Today, the Administration is announcing the following six initial actions:
The Justice Department, within 30 days, will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of ghost guns. We are experiencing a growing problem: criminals are buying kits containing nearly all of the components and directions for finishing a firearm within as little as 30 minutes and using these firearms to commit crimes. When these firearms turn up at crime scenes, they often cannot be traced by law enforcement due to the lack of a serial number. The Justice Department will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of these firearms.
President Biden is reiterating his call for Congress to pass legislation to reduce gun violence. Last month, a bipartisan coalition in the House passed two bills to close loopholes in the gun background check system. Congress should close those loopholes and go further, including by closing boyfriend and stalking loopholes that currently allow people found by the courts to be abusers to possess firearms, banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines, repealing gun manufacturers immunity from liability, and investing in evidence-based community violence interventions. Congress should also pass an appropriate national red flag law, as well as legislation incentivizing states to pass red flag laws of their own.
But this Administration will not wait for Congress to act to take its own steps fully within the Administrations authority and the Second Amendment to save lives. Today, the Administration is announcing the following six initial actions:
The Justice Department, within 30 days, will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of ghost guns. We are experiencing a growing problem: criminals are buying kits containing nearly all of the components and directions for finishing a firearm within as little as 30 minutes and using these firearms to commit crimes. When these firearms turn up at crime scenes, they often cannot be traced by law enforcement due to the lack of a serial number. The Justice Department will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of these firearms.
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence Public Health Epid (Original Post)
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Apr 2021
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)1. I think it's important to also fund improved mental health diagnosis and treatment since
that's a big component of all social problems including gun crimes.