{"id":587916,"date":"2023-08-21T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gun-safety-groups-back-biden-in-2024-with-no-other-alternative\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T10:00:00","slug":"gun-safety-groups-back-biden-in-2024-with-no-other-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gun-safety-groups-back-biden-in-2024-with-no-other-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gun safety groups back Biden in 2024 \u2014 with no other alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/bidenjoe_gunsafety_ap_susanwalsh.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With the U.S. topping more than 400 mass shootings in 2023 alone, a prominent contingent of gun violence prevention groups\u00a0\u2014 with little to no alternative in 2024\u00a0 \u2014 has thrown its weight behind President Biden\u2019s reelection bid.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those same advocates, however, maintain they want to see more out of the Biden administration on the matter, even as they acknowledge he\u2019s the only viable candidate for them when it comes to efforts to curb gun violence.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The early endorsements come from four major groups \u2014 Everytown for Gun Safety, Brady and Team ENOUGH, Community Justice Action Fund and Giffords.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has pushed its limits in terms of executive powers to curb gun violence, especially given a divided Congress with little <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>etite to broach the subject in an election year. In its latest move, administration officials are eyeing a Justice Department-led expansion of background checks for gun purchases.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the big asks advocates say the White House hasn\u2019t come through on is the establishment of a designated office solely focused on curbing gun violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Community Justice, the largest Black and survivor-led advocacy group, has been consistently demanding that such an office be created in the Biden White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make sure the office is set up in a way that it has true authority and it can be sustained long term \u2014 even beyond this administration \u2014 and we know that may or may not require congressional action,\u201d Executive Director Greg Jackson told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>March for Our Lives, which was created following the Parkland, Fla., school shooting in 2019, has also pushed for such an office. The group doesn\u2019t endorse candidates but \u201cwill continue to call on all of our elected officials to do more to address the root causes of gun violence \u2014 especially as the 2024 election cycle begins,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Biden included $5 billion in funding for community violence intervention in the original iteration of the Inflation Reduction Act, but the funding was slashed in the final bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unfinished work is there\u2019s a great deal of resources that we\u2019ve been fighting for that have not been passed yet,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan gun safety bill Biden signed into law last summer was considered by advocates at the time as a first step. Biden in June acknowledged that he doesn\u2019t see that legislation as \u201cenough\u201d and noted that the gun violence prevention movement doesn\u2019t think it went far enough.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The school year ended last spring with an elementary school shooting in Nashville and an uptick in calls for stricter gun control measures, but no action.<\/p>\n<p>However, to many advocates, Biden is the better choice when faced with the alternative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re talking about life and death and gun violence, talking about the safety of our kids, it\u2019s never enough. We have an unprecedented gun violence crisis in this nation. But what\u2019s clear is that President Biden is doing something about it. He has succeeded where other people have failed,\u201d Peter Ambler, co-founder and executive director of Giffords, told The Hill.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The White House, too, has been quick to blame Republicans for a stalemate on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Harris this week called out Republicans for putting their focus on things like changing education standards for the worse instead of acting on issues like gun violence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re banning books. All the while, they refuse to pass reasonable gun safety laws,\u201d she said at a campaign reception in Medina, Wash.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Biden has consistently called for Congress to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require safe storage of guns, to end gun manufacturers\u2019 immunity from liability and to enact universal background checks.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates, too, are aware of the roadblocks that lie ahead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fully expect the president to continue fighting for gun safety measures in Congress, but we also know that the House majority is going to be somewhat hostile to those efforts,\u201d Ambler said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Even without major steps towards gun violence prevention, Biden\u2019s willingness to at least champion the movement is enough for gun violence prevention advocates to back him again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that it\u2019s absolutely clear that the president has an unflinching commitment to ending gun violence, and I think it\u2019s been evident since day one of his administration, but certainly as vice president it was evident as well,\u201d John Feinblatt, president of Everytown, told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>The groups said they planned to spend big on Biden in this election cycle, though they wouldn\u2019t reveal details on just how much that would be for 2024.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Giffords is looking at \u201crobust numbers\u201d and plans to \u201cbuild on and exceed past amounts and past efforts,\u201d Ambler said. In 2020, the group spent over $7.5 million. Everytown spent $55 million in 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Biden has already delivered a gun violence prevention message on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>In March in Monterey Park, Calif., following a mass shooting there in January, Biden announced an executive order to direct the Justice Department to undertake a review to increase the number of background checks conducted before gun sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the order is to move the U.S. as close to a system of universal background checks for all gun sales as possible without requiring legislation from Congress. Biden has also acted through executive order to ban unlicensed kits to manufacture so-called ghost guns at home.<\/p>\n<p>One of Biden\u2019s first campaign stops after he announced his reelection bid was to Connecticut, where he joined the National Safer Communities Summit to rail against Republicans in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>There, he acknowledged shootings that had devastated communities in Uvalde, Texas, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Charleston, S.C., over the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know how many times I met with people at events in the country who shake my hand and say, \u2018I\u2019m worried.\u00a0There\u2019s been another shooting not far from where I live.\u00a0I\u2019m scared to send my kid to school,\u2019\u201d Biden said. \u201cIt\u2019s had a profound impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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