![]() On a conference call with reporters, a senior administration official said last year’s bipartisan gun safety legislation – the most sweeping of its kind in three decades – “created an opening” for Biden to direct the attorney general to move the US as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation. On a swing through California, the president acknowledged this political reality and unveiled an executive order to enforce existing laws against gun sellers who, knowingly or otherwise, currently fail to run the background checks they should. But with Republicans in control of the House of Representatives, there is little hope of Congress heeding Biden’s pleas to pass legislation. Opinion polls show that a majority of both Democrats and Republicans support universal background checks that would reveal whether a person is a convicted criminal or domestic abuser before allowing them to buy a gun. “Survivors will always carry the physical and emotional scars.” A holiday of hope and possibility marked by horror and pain … a sense of safety shattered,” Biden told the crowd. “We all saw a day of festivity and light turn into a day of fear and darkness. ![]() Biden began his speech with a somber acknowledgment of the victims at Star dance studio, as well as Brandon Tsay, an employee at another ballroom dance hall who disarmed the attacker before he could begin shooting at a second location.
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