President Joe Biden Sunday released a statement calling for stricter gun laws in response to the mass shooting in Sacramento that occurred earlier on Sunday, which resulted in six deaths and at least a dozen injuries.
In the statement, Biden discussed his Administration’s executive action to implement his gun crime reduction strategy. This strategy includes aiding cities to expand community violence interventions, “standing up gun trafficking strike forces” and increasing the number of police officers for community policing.
Biden additionally called on Congress to act and provided a list of legal reforms, including banning ghost guns, assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Biden further advocated for requiring background checks prior to gun purchases, including private transactions and holding firearm manufacturers liable for gun deaths.
Biden also urged Congress to pass his budget proposal for the 2023 fiscal year, “which would give cities more of the funding they need to fund the police and fund the crime prevention and intervention strategies that can make our cities safer.”
These are just a few of the steps Congress urgently needs to take to save lives,” Biden said in the statement. “We must do more than mourn; we must act.”