White House response to University of Virginia shooting invokes ‘assault weapons’ banWithin hours of police arresting a suspect in the fatal shooting of three University of Virginia football players, the White House called for an assault weapons ban even though the suspect was alleged to have used a handgun in the killings.
The White House said President Biden and the First Lady were "mourning with the University of Virginia community after yet another deadly shooting in America has taken the lives of three people."
Too many families across America are bearing the awful burden of gun violence," the White House said, before invoking President Biden’s signing of the "most significant gun safety law in nearly three decades" earlier this year.
"But we must do more. We need to enact an assault weapons ban to get weapons of war off America’s streets," the White House said before taking a subtle jab at Republicans: "House Democrats acted, and the Senate should follow."
Congress passed a bipartisan gun control bill in June after a spate of mass shootings from Buffalo, New York to Uvalde, Texas. Still, the bill stopped short of more stringent restrictions that Democrats have been pushing for, including the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban that Biden called for, which passed by Congress in 1994 but expired 10 years later. .......
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