{"id":1513394,"date":"2022-06-13T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T13:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513394"},"modified":"2022-06-13T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T13:34:42","slug":"biden-urges-congress-to-pass-gun-control-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-urges-congress-to-pass-gun-control-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Urges Congress To Pass Gun Control Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-urges-congress-to-pass-gun-control-proposal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass a bipartisan gun control proposal Sunday, but noted that it doesn\u2019t include everything he believes the country needs.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/12\/bipartisan-consensus-gun-laws-2022\/\">proposal<\/a>, announced earlier Sunday, has the support of 10 Republicans in the Senate \u2013 none of whom are running for re-election this year, Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-sneak-peek-7d690d34-e45d-49ec-b6c3-79f924338a40.html?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiossneakpeek&#038;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noted<\/a>. The agreement includes \u00a0\u201cmental health resources, improves school safety and support for students, and helps ensure dangerous criminals and those who are adjudicated as mentally ill can\u2019t purchase weapons,\u201d the bipartisan group of senators responsible for the proposal said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/12\/politics\/senate-gun-safety-agreement\/index.html\">according<\/a> to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it does not do everything that I think is needed, but it reflects important steps in the right direction, and would be the most significant gun safety legislation to pass Congress in decades,\u201d Biden said in a statement following the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The president also noted the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/09\/republicans-democrats-upton-kinzinger-gun-control\/\">proposal\u2019s<\/a> bipartisan support and said \u201cthere are no excuses for delay, and no reason why it should not quickly move through the Senate and the House.\u201d He promised to sign it should a bill reach his desk. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/07\/atf-doj-gao-gun-laws-background-checks\/\">(RELATED: The US Govt\u2019s Track Record Of Enforcing Gun Laws Is Actually Horrendous)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7449068\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7449068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One upon departure after attending the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 11, 2022. REUTERS\/Kevin Lamarque<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEach day that passes, more children are killed in this country: the sooner it comes to my desk, the sooner I can sign it, and the sooner we can use these measures to save lives,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal also includes a \u201cred flag provision\u201d and a new process for reviewing people under 21 who want to purchase a gun, CNN reported. The school security aspect of the proposal is one that Republicans have been focused on in recent weeks, after multiple mass <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/09\/government-to-save-me-gun-rights-gun-control-fiery-testimony\/\">shootings<\/a> prompted a renewed focus on gun control.<\/p>\n<p>The push for gun control follows a\u00a0mass <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/28\/people-being-incredible-uvalde-texas-massacre\/\">shooter<\/a>\u00a0who killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, in May. Weeks prior, a\u00a0mass shooter also killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. A hospital in Oklahoma also recently experienced a mass <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/01\/tulsa-mass-shooting-hospital-st-francis-hospital-oklahoma\/\">shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nine Democrats are part of the bipartisan group, along with one independent and the ten Republicans, according to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has pushed for a ban on \u201cassault weapons and high capacity magazines.\u201d If so-called assault weapons can\u2019t be banned, the president <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/02\/joe-biden-gun-control-demands-call-on-congress-act\/\">said<\/a> in early June that the age to purchase them should be raised from 18 to 21. Biden also wants expanded background checks, \u201csafe storage laws,\u201d \u201cnational red flag laws\u201d and a focus on America\u2019s \u201cmental health crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden urged Congress to pass a bipartisan gun control proposal Sunday, but noted that it doesn\u2019t include everything he believes the country needs.The proposal, announced earlier Sunday, has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}