WASHINGTON, June 25 (BNA) President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most comprehensive gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until the recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers in Elementary school in Texas. The school.
“It will save lives,” he said in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Citing families of shooting victims he met, the president said, “their message to us was, ‘Do something.'” How many times have we heard that? Just do something. For God’s sake, just do something. We did that today.”
The House gave final approval on Friday, following the Senate’s approval on Thursday, and Biden acted before leaving Washington for two summits in Europe.
“Today we say, more than enough,” Biden said. “The time has come, when it seems impossible to get anything done in Washington, that we do something important.”
The legislation would tighten background checks for the smallest of gun buyers, prevent firearms from more domestic violence offenders, and help states create cautionary laws that make it easier for authorities to take guns from people judged to be dangerous.
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