{"id":47092,"date":"2022-11-25T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/biden-renews-call-to-ban-assault-weapons\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:23:42","slug":"biden-renews-call-to-ban-assault-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/biden-renews-call-to-ban-assault-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden renews call to ban assault weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons,” Biden told reporters during a visit to firefighters in Nantucket, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

The remarks came on the heels of a pair of high-profile mass shootings in just a few days.<\/p>\n

In the shooting at a Colorado Springs nightclub over the weekend, a gunman wielded an AR-15 style rifle, killing five people while injuring 19 others.<\/p>\n

“I’m sick and tired of these shootings,” Biden said on Thursday. “We should have much stricter gun laws.”<\/p>\n

However, the chance of a ban on assault weapons passing through the U.S. Congress is all but impossible in the near future.<\/p>\n

Republicans will take control of the House of Representatives next term and is likely to oppose legislation to curb gun rights.<\/p>\n

The United States has suffered more than 600 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.<\/p>\n

Last year, the country saw a staggering number of 690 mass shootings, up from 610 in 2020 and 417 in 2019. <\/p>\n

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