Pres. Biden convened a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland, law enforcement leaders and elected officials to discuss rising crime rates across the country.
President Joe Biden plans to announce a range of actions targeting rising gun violence, including letting communities repurpose COVID relief money, as homicide rates jump heading into summer.As part of his effort to get out in front of a politically sensitive issue, Presidenton Monday convened a meeting with Attorney General Merrick Garland, law enforcement leaders and elected officials to discuss rising crime rates across the country.
"It includes cracking down on holding rogue gun dealers accountable for violating the federal law. It includes the Justice Department creating five new strike forces to crack down on illegal gun trafficking," Biden said, without directly acknowledging more meaningful gun control is impossible without getting Senate Republicans to go along.
Biden's plan, unveiled last month, targets law-breaking gun dealers, provides federal resources to police departments for gun-crime enforcement and allows communities to repurpose millions of dollars of federal coronavirus relief funding for programs proven to prevent gun violence. Notably, Biden has not taken the same stance as some progressives who've called to"defund the police," a position that gained traction last year during what many deemed to be a racial reckoning in the country.President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting about reducing gun violence with local leaders from around the country, including New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams, far left, Washington, D.C.
"Why did it take so long before we heard the gunshots that families were listening and hearing every night? Other communities are waking up the alarm clock, communities of Black, brown and poor people are waking up to gunshots and this president says this is not the America we're going to live in," he continued.
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