President Joe Biden marked the nine-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that killed 20 children and six educators with a call for action to reduce gun violence.
Along with the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Biden also mentioned the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., in 2018, which killed 17 people and prompted March for Our Lives protests, and the shooting late last month in southeast Michigan, that killed four, in a video released by the White House.
He referred to the above school shootings as “horrific shootings that make national headlines and embarrass us as a nation,” adding that shootings also occur daily in Black and Brown communities that don’t make the national headlines.
“As a nation, we owe all these families more than our prayers,” Biden said in the video. “We owe them action.”
A lone gunman fatally shot 20 first-graders, and six school employees at Sandy Hook Elementary School while Biden was vice president under President Barack Obama.
“For me and for Barack, the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was one of the saddest days we were in office those eight years,” Biden said in the video message.
In response, Biden noted in the video message that at the time the administration formed a broad coalition and enacted more than 20 executive orders to reduce gun violence, but came up short of enacting legislation.
“It was so darn frustrating, and it’s still frustrating now for you and me and so many others,” Biden said. “We have to keep up the pressure.”
Biden specifically said there were “three commonsense bills to reduce gun violence that the Senate should pass now.”
One of these bills would require more extensive background checks for gun sales. Another is to keep guns out of the hands of abusers. A third is the Build Back Better legislation, which Biden said “would make a landmark $5 billion investment in community violence prevention and intervention programs to support trusted leaders who work directly with people who are most likely to commit gun crimes or become gun victims before it’s too late.”
“May God bless all those innocent lives in Newtown and all across the country and all of you who have been the victims of gun violence and your families have suffered from it,” Biden added while closing out his remarks in the video message. “My heart breaks for you, but we have to act. We can’t give up. We got to get it done.”
Today, @POTUS marked nine years since the Sandy Hook elementary school tragedy, remembering all of the lives lost and forever affected by gun violence since that shooting, and repeating his call for Congress to pass commonsense gun legislation. pic.twitter.com/CgUdLilT6u
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) December 14, 2021
The White House also released a fact sheet Tuesday on steps the administration has taken, including a proposed rule in May to curb the proliferation of ghost guns, which are unserialized guns that law enforcement officials have identified as a threat to public safety.
Biden noted in his speech that steps the administration has taken have also included promoting the safe storage of firearms.
The administration also made certain American Rescue Plan funding — $350 billion in state and local funding, and $122 billion in K-12 funding — available as resources for community violence prevention and intervention programs, which Biden noted in his speech.
The community violence prevention and intervention strategies listed in the fact sheet include community policing, summer jobs for young adults, and substance abuse and mental health services.
The Department of Justice has proposed a rule to restrict accessories that turn pistols into rifles and legislation for states to adopt new “red flag” laws to keep firearms out of the hands of people who pose a danger to themselves or others, according to the fact sheet.
The Justice Department has also expanded a program to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers.
Biden said in the video post, he’s also calling in his budget for doubling funding for gun violence prevention research, including examining gun violence as “a public health threat.”
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And just who picks and designates who the “trusted leaders” are that work directly with people who are “most likely to commit gun crimes”… and how will they identify them? Just more useless money wasting pyscho-babble that will solve nothing. Cut away all the junk “science” and drama and you’ll find that the more libtard garbage is shoved up the keister of children and the general public the more of this kind of out break occurs. That’s the real track record.. no lie’s …just facts.
Just more virtue signaling from the Groper-in-Chief.
GUNS Don’t kill.
CRIMINALS with guns kill.
What we need, is MORE CRIMINAL CONTROL!
I know… Let’s “de-fund the criminals” …set the libtard sights on that… get the focus off the police.
How can we ‘defund them’, OTHER THAN CEASING PAYING THEM WELFARE??
There is only so much that can be said on this issue and I believe that it has all been said—numerous times—to the point that I am tired of repeating it. They just don’t get it—and they never will because of who they are.
That’s because they don’t WANT TO “get it”. They want to disarm all of us, SO THEY CAN TAKE OVER for good…
Apparently, nowadays POTUS = Idiot.
“For me and for Barack, the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was one of the saddest days we were in office those eight years,” Biden said…… Well, three of the saddest days for America is when Barack was elected twice and Biden elected last year…
And the real sad thing is Quid Pro Joe, hit with a capital “S” pants Biden wasn’t legally elected! He’s a communist occupier.
We do not have a gun problem, we have a criminal problem. To the moronic idiots in our country, the Second Amendment is for the lawful citizenry to, wait for it, here it comes, protect and defend themselves against ill intent individuals and tyrannical Governments.
THAT IS WHY they are so fervent about disarming us, SO WE CAN’T RESIST them!
The last time I checked, I do not have the ability to overwhelm attackers, who are armed, with my physical ability to fight them off. However, with a firearm, my odds just exponentially increased in my favor.
“As a nation, we owe all these families more than our prayers,” Biden said in the video. “We owe them action.”
What we need and owe all children is to be taught to pray, to love God and that God loves them, to love one another, to respect others, not to hate, not to be selfish, not to riot, burn and loot. The Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest Enemy.
Consider the accomplishments of which liberal socialist Democrats boast: Banning school prayer, legalizing abortion on demand, secularizing society, replacing God with government and personal charity with social welfare, substituting reason for religion and blurring the lines between the roles of men and women by encouraging the LGBTQ behavior and transgender. And what do we get for this? We get a broken education system, destruction of the nuclear family, to divide races and gender by hate and promote self-serving people with a moral compass lacking true morality.
This baffon and his idiotic rogues have taxpayer funded armed protection and they believe that America should give up their rights to protect themselves and their families. Our right to the second amendment is our only protection between us and this rogue government. Australia gave up their arms and look what england is doing to them. Lockdowns, concentration camps for the unvaccinated, stay at home orders and so much more. Im sure they are sorry they didn’t fight for their right to protect themselves from their tyrannical government. Don’t see that happening in America, that is why these rogue politicians are fighting so hard to take away our right for self protection.
Which is why for YEARS< i have been saying "EVERY politician, who in anyway, ADVCATES FOR THE DISARMING OF we the people, via these stupid and insane ANTI-gun laws, they keep pushing, SHOULD BE PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM EVER having their OWN armed security guards..
EVEN if they pay for them out of their OWN pocket.
Hey… Let’s implement the Democrat Gun Control logic to VOTING: Ban ALL Ballots, because a TINY FEW are illegitimate, and could screw up our Election process!
What a bunch of INSANE people (Democrats, I’m talking about YOU)!