{"id":2015146,"date":"2023-08-29T06:47:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-vows-to-finish-the-job-on-gun-control-in-the-wake-of-jacksonville-shooting\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T06:49:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T10:49:47","slug":"biden-campaign-vows-to-finish-the-job-on-gun-control-in-the-wake-of-jacksonville-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-vows-to-finish-the-job-on-gun-control-in-the-wake-of-jacksonville-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden campaign pledges to complete gun control efforts after Jacksonville shooting."},"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\">22<\/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-campaign-vows-to-finish-the-job-on-gun-control-in-the-wake-of-jacksonville-shooting%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=2015146&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--><h2>President Joe Biden to Tie Combating Gun Violence to Reclaiming\u200d the &#8220;Soul of the Nation&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>President\u200c Joe Biden will &#8220;absolutely&#8221; tie combating gun violence to reclaiming\u2063 the &#8220;soul of the \u2062nation&#8221; following the nation&#8217;s latest \u200ddeadly\u2062 shooting, officials with\u200d his reelection effort say.<\/p>\n<p>The president has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abbott-bashes-gun-reform-says-chicago-efforts-have-proven-ineffective\/\" title=\"Abbott Bashes Gun Reform, Says Chicago Efforts Have Proven Ineffective\">made gun control<\/a> a focus of his time in the White House. Biden successfully ushered the \u2063Bipartisan Safer Communities Act through Congress before \u2064the 2022 midterm \u2064election. However, the\u200c final bill omitted several of the\u200d president&#8217;s proposals, including reinstating 1994&#8217;s \u200bban on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-exploits-colo-shooting-in-effort-to-get-gun-control-passed\/\" title=\"Biden exploits Colo. shooting in effort to get gun control passed\">assault-style weapons<\/a>, and a split Congress makes it \u200cextremely unlikely that Biden can pass another bill before \u20642024.<\/p>\n<h3>Recent Tragedy and Biden&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>On \u2063Saturday, a \u206221-year-old white gunman \u200cshot and killed three black individuals \u2064and then himself at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida. Security footage showed him trying to enter \u200dbuildings at nearby\u200b Edwards Jackson University, a historically black university, just\u200b before the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Biden chose to \u2062focus\u200c his initial response to the tragedy more on the shooter&#8217;s violent extremism than on reiterating calls to increase gun control measures, as he frequently does in\u2063 response to mass shootings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Even as we continue searching for answers, \u200bwe must\u200c say clearly and forcefully that white supremacy\u2064 has no place in America,&#8221; the \u200bpresident wrote. &#8220;We must\u200c refuse\u200d to live in a country where \u200dBlack families going to the store or Black students going to school live in\u200b fear of being gunned down because of the color of their skin. Hate must have no safe harbor. Silence is complicity and we must not remain silent.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The bottom line is that a lot\u2019s happening. Things that you didn\u2019t think would be happening today around the anniversary of 60 years after the March \u2064 [on Washington],&#8221; Biden added during a meeting with family members of Dr. Martin Luther \u2063King Jr. at the White House on Monday. &#8220;I\u2019ve said to the country, you can\u2019t let hate \u200bprevail, and it\u2019s on the rise, not diminishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made clear\u200c in my\u200d inaugural address, white supremacy is a poison. It&#8217;s a poison. It&#8217;s been allowed to grow faster and faster in our communities, \u2062to the point where the intelligence community \u200dhas determined \u2014 U.S. intelligence community has determined that domestic terrorism, looting, and \u200dwhite supremacy is the greatest terrorist threat we face in the home. The \u200bgreatest threat. We \u2062have to act,&#8221; he reiterated\u200d during a second \u200ccivil rights \u2063event at the White House\u2063 on\u2062 Monday evening. &#8220;We&#8217;ll call it\u2063 out, and we&#8217;ll call it\u2064 for what it is. While \u200cwe know\u200d tragedy \u2062can&#8217;t be forever overcome or fully understood, there are certain things that we do know. With your help, I signed the \u200cmost\u200d significant gun violence law in nearly 30 years, but we must not stop until we ban assault weapons and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gun-policies-concern-second-amendment-advocates\/\" title=\"Biden gun policies concern Second Amendment advocates\">high-capacity magazines<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre echoed Biden&#8217;s comments during Monday&#8217;s \u2062press briefing, firmly declaring that &#8220;white supremacy has no place in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the president said in his statement yesterday, we must refuse to live in a country where Black families going to the store or Black students going to school live in fear \u2062of being gunned down because of the color \u2064of their skin. Hate must have no\u200b safe harbor,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Silence is complicity, and\u2063 we must not\u200c remain silent, and we must continue to do all we can to keep guns out of dangerous hands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Biden&#8217;s Campaign Focus<\/h3>\n<p>The president has spent\u2063 the past several months focusing his reelection hopes on \u2063a nationwide &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; push. Biden&#8217;s economic polling remains underwater, but the campaign hopes that a new focus on &#8220;relational organizing,&#8221; combined with the gradual implementation of Biden&#8217;s core spending packages, will help sell voters on\u200c Biden&#8217;s economic agenda.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Biden campaign says the president will also soon start leaning\u2062 more heavily into gun violence on the trail and that the violent extremism characterizing many of the recent mass shootings across the country runs &#8220;deeper than just guns.&#8221; In that sense, standing up in opposition to &#8220;hate and vitriol&#8221;\u2064 marks a &#8220;through\u200d line&#8221; with his \u20622020 presidential campaign, where\u2062 he urged voters to reject former President Donald Trump&#8217;s MAGA agenda in order to save \u200bthe &#8220;soul of the \u2063nation,&#8221; according to Biden campaign \u200dofficials.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We\u2019re absolutely campaigning on gun violence,&#8221; one\u2064 campaign official\u200b confirmed to \u200dthe Washington Examiner, despite the uphill battle toward legislating Biden&#8217;s gun violence proposals and stressed that federal action on gun violence \u200bis a top voting issue \u200cfor young people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pressed on how a split \u200cCongress would make passing new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-vows-to-finish-the-job-on-gun-control-in-the-wake-of-jacksonville-shooting\/\" title=\"Biden campaign pledges to complete gun control efforts after Jacksonville shooting.\">gun violence legislation virtually impossible<\/a>, a Biden campaign official responded that &#8220;the whole idea of Joe Biden&#8217;s \u2063political operation is to build \u2062not just for\u2064 him&#8221; but also down-ballot candidates.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We understand the numbers,&#8221; that person added.\u200d &#8220;That&#8217;s \u2063why &#8216;finishing the job&#8217; is going to be a core component of the president&#8217;s message.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/biden-campaigning-gun-violence\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s reelection team states that he will strongly connect the fight against gun violence to restoring the nation&#8217;s &#8220;soul&#8221; after the recent tragic shooting. Gun control has been a key priority for Biden during his presidency. He effectively guided the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act through Congress prior to 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2015147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015146","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}