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President Biden speaks during his first press briefing in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.Jim Watson/AFP via Getty ImagesWhen President Biden was asked about actions he would take on gun violence prevention and said “it’s a matter of timing,” andpivoted to talk about infrastructure, it wasn’t what Kris Brown had been expectingI am disappointed, I will say, at what I heard from him,” said Brown, who is president of Brady United Against Gun Violence.That disappointment comes, in part, because of Biden’s long history of working alongside gun safety advocates, going back to the 1990s when he helped shepherd through the Brady Bill requiring background checks on most gun purchases as well as a temporary ban on sales of some military-style semi-automatic guns.Just two days before Thursday’s press conference, the morning after the King Soopers mass shooting in Boulder, Colo., Biden said he didn’t need to “wait another minute, let alone an hour to take common-sense steps that will save lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act.”
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He urged them to bring back an “assault weapons” ban and limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines.Article continues after sponsor messageBut Biden knows better than almost anyone just how difficult that would be.Why Boulder Is Trying To Keep The Focus On Victims, Not The ShooteNATIONAWhy Boulder Is Trying To Keep The Focus On Victims, Not The ShooterBiden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee nearly 30 years ago, the last time Congress passed significant gun controllegislation. And it wasn’t easy.”I’m not even angry anymore. I’m just as frustrated as hell,” Biden said in 1994 in the middle of a lengthy fight with congressional Republicans and the National Rifle Association over the crime bill. It was a huge bill he’d been working on for a long time that included hiring more police officers, promoting community policing and crime-reduction strategies and drug courts, but also included sentencing changes blamed for a precipitous rise in mass incarceration in the U.S.It also had a ban on a variety of semi-automatic guns; in a particularly heated speech, Biden said that was what was holding up the whole bill.”Six years ago it was guns, five years ago it was guns, four years ago it was guns, last night it was guns,” said Biden, nearly shouting.
