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In Joe Biden’s address to the US nation last night he said “I had hoped when I became president I would not have to do this, again. Another massacre.”
Vice president, Kamala Harris, also spoke on the issue last night. She was delivering the keynote address at the Aipacs annual awards gala. She said:
There are parents who have lost children. Families that have lost their loved ones. And many others may have been injured.
So, I would normally say in a moment like this – we would all say, naturally – that our hearts break. But our hearts keep getting broken, you know. There’s so many elected leaders in this room. You know what I’m talking about. Every time a tragedy like this happens, our hearts break, and our broken hearts are nothing compared to the broken hearts of those families.
The bottom line is I just watched a girl walk across the plaza that held up a sign that said, ‘This is your fault.’ We need to do something.
Two proposals to expand and strengthen background checks that passed the House in March of 2021 have sat in limbo for more than a year as Democratic senators have shown little appetite for a partisan battle over gun control. One Democratic senator said fellow Democrats are reluctant to hold votes on gun-control measures that can’t muster 60 votes to overcome a filibuster because it makes them look weak and ineffective.
