President Joe Biden wants to sign into law a ban on high-powered guns. In July, the Democratic-led House passed legislation to revive a 1990s-era ban on certain semi-automatic guns. FOX13
. And the president pushed the weapons ban nearly everywhere that he campaigned this year.
There are clear partisan divides. About 9 in 10 Democrats want stricter gun laws, compared with about 3 in 10 Republicans. About half of Republicans want gun laws left as they are and only one-quarter want to see gun laws be made less strict. He said more mental health counseling, assessments of troubled students and law enforcement on campus make more sense.Uvalde school shooting: Families of children killed gather at Texas Capitol
Over the past six months there has been a supermarket shooting in Buffalo, New York; a massacre of school children in Uvalde, Texas; and the July Fourth shooting of revelers in Highland Park, Illinois.On Tuesday, six people were shot dead at a Walmart in Virginia.
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