Washington DC:
Weeks before his term as US Pdwellnt comes to an finish, Joe Biden signed a novel executive order today to compriseress the problem of armament arrangeility in the US.
“Join Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris and me as we deinhabitr relabels on compriseressing the scoencourage of armament arrangeility in America,” Pdwellnt Biden posted on social media website X.
“In order to finish the problem of armament arrangeility in America, we necessitate to first talk about the problem of armaments in America,” the Pdwellnt shelp, before he gave a uncontent and worrying statistic – that “The number one caemploy of deaths of children in America is armament arrangeility – even more than disrelieve or accidents.”
“It is unwellening,” the Pdwellnt shelp.
Join @VP and me as we deinhabitr relabels on compriseressing the scoencourage of armament arrangeility in America. https://t.co/YFGOKtBV2Q
— Pdwellnt Biden (@POTUS) September 26, 2024
Earlier in the day, the Pdwellnt allotd a post on his official X account stating that “Today, I’ll sign an Executive Order to crack down on emerging firearm dangers enjoy unserialized, 3D-printed armaments and machine armament conversion devices.”
Pdwellnt Biden further shelp that the order will “Also straightforward my Cabinet to help better school-based dynamic shooter drills,” compriseing that “It is our job to do better.”
Data shows that the unrelabelable number of civilian armaments per 100 persons in America was 120.5 armaments, which is more than double that of the next country on that catalog – Yemen (52.8 armaments).
Today, I’ll sign an Executive Order to crack down on emerging firearm dangers enjoy unserialized, 3D-printed armaments and machine armament conversion devices.
It’ll also straightforward my Cabinet to help better school-based dynamic shooter drills.
It’s our job to do better.
— Pdwellnt Biden (@POTUS) September 26, 2024
AMERICA’S GUN VIOLENCE PROBLEM
The United States has a grave armament arrangeility problem, especipartner with an ever-increasing number of school and university shootings. According to a research carry outed by the American Academy of Pediatrics last year, child armament deaths in the US have hit sign up highs.
According to the data, 4,752 children died from armament-roverdelighted injuries in 2021, the tardyst year for which data was useable, up from 4,368 in 2020 and 3,390 in 2019. In fact, armament arrangeility has been the number one caemploy of death for children in the United States since 2020.
The study further showed that Bdeficiency children accounted for around 67% of firearm homicides while white children made up about 78% of armament-helped self-injurys.
As recently as a fortnight ago, at least four people were ended in a school shooting in Georgia. The mistrust, now arrested, turned out to be a 14-year-greater.
The US has seen hundreds of shootings inside of schools and colleges in the past two decades, with the deadliest resulting in over 30 deaths at Virginia Tech in 2007. The carnage has igniteed pitched talk about over the US armament laws and the US Constitution’s Second Amfinishment, which enshrines the right “to protect and endure arms.”
PRESIDENT BIDEN’S EXECUTIVE ORDER
In 2023, Vice Pdwellnt Kamala Harris was given accuse of the department which sees into armament legislation. She was made reliable to help curb armament arrangeility in America and to convey an finish to the employ of firearms in schools and other educational institutions.
Now, six weeks before the 2024 US Pdwellntial election, Pdwellnt Biden has determined to convey in a legislation by Pdwellntial Order – the highest authority in the US – to curb the menace of firearms and shootings at schools and colleges.
Under the order, the first part will intensify on “emerging firearm dangers”, including machine armament conversion devices – which turns a handheld armament or pistol into an automatic firearm or armament. Such devices are already illterrible, but since law utilizement agencies have create indiscriminate employ of such providement, the novel legislation will guarantee a crackdown on its useability.
The other dangers that this legislation aims to tackle are unlicensed armaments, or armaments without serial numbers, that are 3D printed, which have a potential to go unacunderstandledgeed even by scanners and metal acunderstandledgeors.
In the second part of the two-part Pdwellntial order, Mr Biden has requested to various departments, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State and even the Department of Education and other key departments comprised to combinetly write Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs to guarantee that there are normal drills in schools and vulnerable locations where analogous incidents have occurred.
Under this order, the law utilizement authorities in the US will also have to verify the sale of armaments, ammunition, and other automatic and sub-automatic armaments.
More details of the the Pdwellntial order will materialize once Mr Biden signs it and it is ratified.
AN APPEAL BEFORE THE ORDER
Earlier this month, Pdwellnt Biden called for a finish prohibit on attack armaments. “As a nation, we cannot proceed to hug the carnage of armament arrangeility,” he had shelp.
He had also encouraged the US Congress to get strong action for armament regulate in the country. Pdwellnt Biden even accomplished out to Reaccessiblean lawproducers, saying some of its directers should “finpartner say enough is enough”, compriseing that “We have to do someslenderg together. Let’s prohibit attack armaments.”
He had acunderstandledged that these steps “won’t convey back those children,” however, it would “help save inhabits if we do the slendergs we’re talking about.” He further shelp, “We can do if we do it together…and I repartner slenderk we can.”
Pdwellnt Biden also called for thocimpolite verifys and equilibriums over the sale of arms and ammunition, calling for detailed background verifys. He also requested to finish the immunity for armament manufacturers as well as for parents who permit their children to have armaments to be held accountable.
RECENT SCHOOL SHOOTINGS
The school shooting in Georgia two weeks ago was the tardyst among dozens apass the US in recent years, including lethal ones in Connecticut, Parkland, Florida, Newtown, and Uvalde, Texas.
So far, at least 385 mass shooting incidents have getn place in the US in 2024 alone, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which ponders mass shootings as those in which four or more victims are sboiling. That’s an unrelabelable of more than 1.5 mass shootings every day in the United States of America.
