Joe Biden to announce executive order aimed at curbing gun violence

March 14 (UPI) — President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order Tuesday aimed at curbing gun violence in a country that has seen a series of high-profile shootings in the first few months of the year.

The White House stated in early announcement on tuesday that the president should announce an executive order in Monterey Park, California, a community that is still mourning the 11 dead and nine injured in a gunman attack on a dance studio during the Lunar New Year celebration on January 21st.

The executive order will seek to increase the number of background checks conducted before firearms sales, requiring them to be carried out, which will bring the country “as close as possible to universal background checks without additional legislation,” the White House said.

It is also expected to include measures that would improve the effectiveness of so-called red flag laws, strengthen efforts to hold the gun industry accountable, and increase law enforcement’s ability to identify and apprehend shooters.

Biden will travel to Monterey Park to visit families and communities affected by the mass shootings, one of several that have hit the United States this year, as Democrats and gun control advocates call for stronger measures to keep guns out of hands. – be shooters.

Vice President Kamal Harris, a former California senator, visited the Los Angeles city of about 60,000 a few days after the shooting and urged Congress to pass “sensible gun safety laws.”

“Can they do something? Yes,” she said. “Should they do something? Yes. Will they do something? It is here that we should all speak out and talk to our elected representatives about what we have the right to expect from them for the safety, protection and well-being of people like those whose lives were cut short here and people across the country.”

According to the White House, the president is also urging the Federal Trade Commission to produce a report that analyzes how gun manufacturers sell firearms to minors and other similar marketing practices used in the industry.

Biden has repeatedly called for gun law reform and campaigned on the introduction of such measures, including regulating the possession of existing assault weapons and closing loopholes in the federal background check system.

In June, he signed into law the bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which has been called the most important bill to curb gun violence to be passed in about three decades.

According to Gun violence archivethis year there were 85 mass shootings, including 17 in the first two weeks of March.

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