With Congress Divided Over New Gun Legislation, Biden Issues Executive Order
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🗓️ 16 March 2023
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The White House says that's the closest the U.S. can get to universal background checks without additional legislation from Congress, where Democrats and Republicans remain divided on any new actions aimed at reducing gun violence.
NPR's Deepa Shivaram reports on the order, which Biden announced during a visit to Monterey Park, California, where a gunman killed 11 people and injured nine more in January, one of over 110 mass shootings in the U.S. so far this year.
And NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with White House domestic policy adviser Susan Rice about the order's potential impact and where gun legislation goes from here.
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| 0:00.0 | The US has had more mass shootings than days. |
| 0:10.8 | So far this year, at least 110 mass shootings. |
| 0:14.1 | And with each comes calls for the country to do more to prevent future tragedies. |
| 0:18.6 | The federal government needs to step up. |
| 0:20.2 | People need to have the courage and the conviction to do what we know will save lives. |
| 0:24.3 | California Attorney General Rob Bonta calling for action after the state saw two mass shootings |
| 0:29.8 | within three days in January. |
| 0:31.8 | 11 people were killed, nine injured in a shooting at a dance studio in Monterrey Park. |
| 0:38.0 | Three days later, seven were killed at nearby farms in Half Moon Bay. |
| 0:42.3 | David Pine, head of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, had this to say at a press conference. |
| 0:47.9 | There are simply too many guns in this country and there has to be a change. |
| 0:53.4 | This is not an acceptable way for a modern society to live and conduct its affairs. |
| 0:58.4 | In February, three students were killed and five injured in a school shooting at Michigan |
| 1:03.6 | State University. |
| 1:05.4 | Democratic Congresswoman Alyssa Slotkin noted that shooting came in the wake of another |
| 1:10.1 | one at a high school in nearby Oxford Township, Michigan in November 2021. |
| 1:16.0 | A student there, open fire and killed four of his classmates. |
| 1:19.5 | I cannot believe that I am here again doing this 15 months later. |
| 1:24.3 | And I am filled with rage that we have to have another press conference to talk about |
| 1:29.5 | our children being killed in their schools. |
| 1:33.0 | And I would say that you either care about protecting kids or you don't. |
| 1:37.9 | Last summer, Congress passed the most significant gun safety legislation in nearly 30 years, |
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