After yet another mass shooting in America over the weekend, and another shooter who used an AR-15 to slaughter multiple people rapidly, President Joe Biden Sunday renewed calls to reinstitute the nation’s lapsed assault weapons ban.
Biden called the killings at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, “senseless” and said both LGBTQ+ businesses and people are experiencing a fresh wave of renewed hate from those on the far right.
“Places that are supposed to be safe spaces of acceptance and celebration should never be turned into places of terror and violence,” Biden wrote in a statement addressing the murders. “Yet it happens far too often.”
“We must drive out the inequities that contribute to violence against LGBTQ+ people. We cannot and must not tolerate hate,” he continued.
The calls for new legislation are in line with a campaign promise Biden made while running for the Presidency in 2020.
In the “Gun Safety” section of Biden’s campaign website, he promised to “ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Biden notes that “federal law prevents hunters from hunting migratory game birds with more than three shells in their shotgun. That means our federal law does more to protect ducks than children. It’s wrong.”
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