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President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a legislation that marks some of the biggest changes to federal gun law in decades.
‘Lives will be saved,’ Biden said during the signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
“From Columbine to Sandy Hook to Charleston, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, El Paso, Atlanta, Buffalo, Uvalde, and for the shootings that happen every day in the streets that are mass shootings, we don’t even hear about the number of people killed every day in the streets. Their message to us was to just something,’ the president said.
‘Today we did,’ he noted.
The new law comes in the wake of a spat of mass shootings including one at a grocery store in Buffalo where 10 black people were killed and one at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, where 17 children and two teachers died.
Biden conceded the legislation doesn’t have everything he wanted but ‘it does include actions I’ve long called for that are going to save lives.’
The president praised the bipartisan work on the issue.
‘It’s time when this seems impossible get anything done in Washington. We are doing something consequential,’ he said.
And he said both parties should come together to do more.
‘We can reach compromise on guns, we want to be able to reach compromise and other critical issues from veterans health care to cutting edge American innovation and so much more. I know there’s much more work to do. And I’m never going to give up. But this is a monumental day,’ Biden said…
