President Joe Biden’s answer to the “scourge of gun violence” is to focus on assault weapons when he speaks.

America has heard this phrase hundreds of times, even after the shootings in Colorado and Virginia. The president wants to ban high-powered guns with the potential to kill many people quickly.

“The notion that semi-automatic weapons can still be bought is sick. Biden stated that it was just sick on Thanksgiving Day. “I will try to get rid assault weapons.”

He released a statement following the massacre at Colorado Springs’ gay nightclub last Saturday. To get weapons of war off the streets of America, we need to pass an assault weapons ban.

Biden and other legislators refer to “assault weapon” but they use an incorrect term to describe high-powered guns, semi-automatic long rifles or high-powered guns like the AR-15 that can fire 30 shots per minute without needing to reload. New York Police Department officers have a handgun that can fire about half the amount.

In a divided Congress, a ban on weapons is not possible. However, Biden and the Democrats are now more confident in pushing for tighter gun control — even though it has no clear electoral consequences.

With Biden’s support, the Democratic-led House approved legislation in July to reintroduce a 1990s-era ban against “assault weapon” use. The president also pushed for a ban almost everywhere he campaigned in this year’s election.

However, Democrats retained control of the Senate, while Republicans had the most narrow House majority in 20 years.

This tough talk comes after June’s passage of a landmark bipartisan bill regarding gun laws. It reflects the steady progress gun control advocates have made in recent years.

“I believe the American public was waiting for this message,” stated Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn), who has been the Senate’s most vocal advocate for tighter gun control since the 2012 massacre at Newtown Elementary School in Connecticut. “There’s been a need from voters, particularly swing voters, parents to hear candidates discuss gun violence. I think Democrats are finally sorting of catching up with where they have been.

According to AP VoteCast (an extensive survey of over 94,000 voters across the country), just half of respondents want stricter gun laws in America. The poll was conducted by NORC at The University of Chicago. Only 3 out 10 people want the gun policy to remain as it is. Only 14% would prefer looser gun laws.

There are clearly partisan divisions. A majority of Democrats support stricter gun laws than the 3 percent of 10 Republicans. Half of Republicans prefer gun laws to remain the same, while only one quarter want stricter gun laws.

High-powered firearms, once banned in the United States are now the weapon choice of young men who have been responsible for some of the most horrific mass shootings. Congress let the 1994 restrictions on the sale and manufacture of weapons expire a decade later after it was ineffective in overcoming the strong gun lobby to reinstate the ban.

Current Republican Senator Rick Scott, who was Florida’s governor, signed gun control laws following mass shootings at Marjory Stoneman Doug High School and an Orlando nightclub. He has always opposed weapons bans and argued, like many Republican colleagues, that most gun owners legally use them.

Scott asked Scott as he was discussing gun legislation in the Senate last summer. It doesn’t make sense.

He suggested that more mental health counseling, assessment of troubled students, and campus law enforcement make more sense.

Scott stated, “Let’s concentrate on things that actually could change something.”

Since long, law enforcement officials have called for stricter gun laws. They argue that having these weapons makes people less secure and makes their jobs more hazardous.

Mike Moore, the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (the third-largest in the country), said that it makes sense to discuss guns as gun violence is on the rise nationwide and to consider what the government could do to make streets safer. It is an honor that Biden has brought it up.

Moore stated that the shooting in Colorado Springs was not a one-and done thing. These things are constantly changing in other cities and at any time another incident occurs. He said that the nation is crying out for federal government and for legislators to make these changes.

Six people were killed at a Walmart in Virginia on Tuesday. In the last six months, there have been three incidents: a shooting at a Buffalo supermarket, New York; a massacre at Uvalde school for children, Texas; and the killing of Highland Park revelers on July Fourth, Illinois.

Biden’s June legislation will allow states to put in place red flag laws, which make it easier for authorities and people considered to be dangerous to seize weapons.

However, a ban was never in the cards.

Some Republicans must join the Senate’s 60-vote threshold. Many are opposed to the ban, arguing that it would be too complicated given how many firearms are being sold. Today, there are more high-powered guns than ever before the ban was enacted by President Bill Clinton in 1994.

“I don’t want to try to define whole groups of guns as not being available to the American people,” said Republican Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Rounds is a hunter who owns several guns. Some of these guns were passed down through his family. “For those of you who have grown up with guns and used them as tools, there are millions, hundreds of millions of them — they can be legally used by lawful people.”

Many states have banned gun ownership. The bans are being challenged in courts in many states. This is in response to a Supreme Court decision in June that expanded gun rights.

“We feel quite confident, even though the arguments made by other side, history and tradition, as well as text of the Second Amendment, are on our side,” stated David Warrington, chair and general counsel for National Association for Gun Rights.

As a senator, Biden played a key role in securing the 1990s ban. According to the White House, mass shootings decreased while it was in effect. However, shootings tripled after it expired in 2004.

It is difficult to see the truth. The evidence on effectiveness is mixed. There is also the possibility that other measures, which are less politically charged, might be more effective, according to Robert Spitzer, a political science professor from the State University of New York Cortland, and author of “The Politics of Gun Control”.

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