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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Biden announces executive orders to curb gun violence

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, President Biden rolled out actions to improve active shooter drills and create a task force to investigate machine gun conversion devices and 3D-printed guns, Oklahoma executed a man after the governor rejected a parole board recommendation to spare his life and advocates condemned the sentencing of a former news editor to two years in jail in Hong Kong. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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We start the day's other headlines with a look at gun violence in America.

0:05.0

President Biden rolled out new executive actions today aimed at improving

0:09.0

active shooter drills in high schools.

0:11.0

Officials say the new order will maximize the effectiveness of

0:14.5

drills while also making them less traumatic for students. It also establishes a

0:19.2

task force to investigate new technologies like machine gun conversion devices and 3D printed guns.

0:26.2

Vice President Kamala Harris appeared beside Mr. Biden at the White House today.

0:30.3

Before signing the executive order, Biden criticized statements made by former President Trump and Trump's running mate.

0:37.0

If I want to talk about reducing crime and violence in America, you need to talk about guns in America. I'm going to be very blunt.

0:45.0

Secretary Vance of Ohio has called these shootings facts of life. Who the

0:50.9

hell do these people think they are?

0:52.4

An Associated Press House Who the hell do these people think they are?

0:53.0

An Associated Press tally says that as of yesterday,

0:56.0

there have been at least 31 mass killing so far this year,

1:00.0

the vast majority of them involving guns.

1:02.0

The FBI defines a mass killing as well. the vast majority of them involving guns.

1:03.0

The FBI defines a mass killing as one that involves the death of at least four people.

1:08.3

Oklahoma has executed a man for his role in the 1992 shooting death of a convenience store owner after the

1:15.5

state's governor rejected a parole board recommendation to spare his life.

1:20.0

Emmanuel Little John received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary this morning.

1:25.4

The 52 year old had acknowledged his role in the robbery, but had long maintained that he did not kill the store owner, Kenneth Meers.

1:32.8

Little John's death comes just days after Missouri executed 55-year-old

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