22 November 2024

Biden Calls US Gun Violence An ‘Epidemic’

US President Joe Biden, with Attorney General Merrick Garland, speaks about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 8, 2021. Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP

President Joe Biden on Thursday called US gun violence an “epidemic” at a White House ceremony to unveil new attempts to get the problem under control.

“This is an epidemic, for God’s sake, and it has to stop,” he said, also calling shootings “a public health crisis.”

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