US president Joe Biden has called for urgent reforms to the country's gun laws in a rare prime time address. The speech comes in the wake of a series of mass shootings that have killed dozens of people in recent weeks.
The US president called for a raft of measures including a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, like the kind used to murder nineteen children at an elemnatary school in Uvalde Texas.
President Biden said gun reform was about protecting Americans' freedoms.
But gun reform remains stalled in the US senate where Biden's Democrats face united Republican opposition.
Biden said the proposed changes weren't "about taking anyone's guns"
IN: For god's sake ...
OUT: say enough, enough
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The US president called for a raft of measures including a ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines, like the kind used to murder nineteen children at an elemnatary school in Uvalde Texas.
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OUT: from liability
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President Biden said gun reform was about protecting Americans' freedoms.
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OUT: ....shot and killed
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But gun reform remains stalled in the US senate where Biden's Democrats face united Republican opposition.
IN: It's time for ...
OUT: I find unconscionable
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IN: This is not...
OUT: not absolute
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