Biden issues executive order on guns, calls on Congress to reduce gun violence

[Michie]

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — President Joe Biden announced March 14 he would sign an executive order aiming to increase the number of background checks on prospective gun buyers, as well as measures to promote red flag laws and the secure storage of firearms.

The executive order, released the same day by the White House, does not change existing laws, but rather directs federal agencies to ensure compliance with those laws.

“I continue to call on the Congress to take additional action to reduce gun violence, including by banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, requiring background checks for all gun sales, requiring safe storage of firearms, funding my comprehensive Safer America Plan, and expanding community violence intervention and prevention strategies,” Biden, a Catholic Democrat, said in the order. “In the meantime, my Administration will continue to do all that we can, within existing authority, to make our communities safer.”

In remarks announcing the order during a visit to the Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley in Monterey Park, California, a community where a Jan. 21 shooting at a dance studio on the eve of the Lunar New Year left 11 dead. Biden said the massacre “turned into a day of fear and darkness.”

“A holiday of hope and possibilities marked by horror and pain,” he said. “Vibrant dances and music replaced by vigils and memorials. Eleven souls taken. Nine injured. Private mourning made public.”

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Biden issues executive order on guns, calls on Congress to reduce gun violence

President Joe Biden announced March 14 he would sign an executive order aiming to increase the number of background checks on prospective gun buyers

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[Wolseley]

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — President Joe Biden announced March 14 he would sign an executive order aiming to increase the number of background checks on prospective gun buyers, as well as measures to promote red flag laws and the secure storage of firearms.

Well, that's a major relief. Every time a violent criminal walks into a licensed gun dealer to buy a high-capacity assault rifle, Joe's expanded background checks will be sure to catch him.

So then he'll go down to the crack outlet operating out of the alley off 37th Street and buy a hot weapon for $75.00 from one of the pushers, and avoid every background check known to man.

It just doesn't seem to percolate down through the cue-ball skulls of these liberals that criminals do not obey laws---and all of the restrictions in the world will not do jack squat to reduce gun crime. All it will do is hurt the law-abiding citizens (who aren't the ones committing violent gun crimes anyway) while the criminals go blithely on their way, as free as air.