Biden issues new executive order to address U.S. gun violence | TFC News California, USA
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President Joe Biden visited Southern California on Tuesday to meet with a community that was shaken by gun violence.
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Last January, during a Lunar New Year celebration at a dance hall, 11 people were gunned down in Monterey Park, California, the worst mass shooting in Los Angeles County history.
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During his address to the community, Biden talked about each of the 11 victims, including Filipino-American Valentino Marcos Alvaro.
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Valentino Alvaro, 68 years old, servant of God, life of the party, storyteller, who made the whole room laugh, a man devoted to his children and his grandchildren.
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While in Monterey Park, the president unveiled his executive order to reduce gun violence.
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The order would strengthen background checks and expand public awareness campaigns for red flag laws.
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It also calls on an independent government study on gun companies and a crackdown on illegal gun dealers.
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The order would also increase the emotional as well as financial support for communities and families affected by gun violence.
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While the president hopes this order can help keep communities safe, he's calling on Congress to push for more legislation.
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Let's be clear. None of this absolves Congress from the responsibility of acting to pass universal background checks, eliminate gun manufacturers' immunity from liability.
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And I'm determined, once again, to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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Several members of the Alvaro family met with the president and Congresswoman Judy Chu.
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They tell ABS-CBN News that while the experience of reliving the tragic day was painful, it also provided healing, and that they hope that the executive order could effectively reduce gun violence.
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Chu, who represents Monterey Park, believes that the executive orders could have prevented the shooting last January.
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There are two specific things that are really relevant to this shooting.
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And that is, one, this shooter was mentally deteriorating and he should have been caught by the red flag law because he had both deterioration as well as lots of ammunition.
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And so somebody could have gone and had his guns taken away from him.
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In a statement, the National Rifle Association emphasized that President Biden should go after violent criminals, saying that, quote,
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the focus of our laws and efforts should be on the criminal element and not on law-abiding Americans.
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Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News, Los Angeles.
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