Just a year ago, President Joe Biden signed the first significant piece of federal gun safety legislation in nearly three decades.
On Friday, the Democratic president will speak at a summit in Connecticut highlighting how the sweeping law has been implemented so far. He'll also use it as a moment to push for universal background checks and the banning of so-called “assault weapons.” Those are part of a 2024 political platform that was unthinkable to Democrats as recently as Barack Obama’s term.
Even before the Sandy Hook massacre in Murphy's state in 2012 spurred him to action, there was a mythology around Democratic election losses that dogged the party following passage of a crime bill in the 1990s — that voters weren't interested in gun safety and it was a losing issue politically. “That was just a lie," Murphy said. "But it was a lie the gun lobby did a great job of selling, with some help from Democrats.
Millions of new dollars have flowed into mental health services for children and schools. On Friday, the departments of Health and Human Services and Education sent a joint letter to governors highlighting resources available to them to help support mental health — in particular if a student has been impacted by gun violence.
Yet since that bill signing last summer, the tally of mass shootings in the United States has only grown. As of Friday, there have been at least 26 mass killings in the U.S. so far in 2023, leaving at least 131 people dead, not including perpetrators who died, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
“Too many schools, too many everyday places have become killing fields in communities across America. And in each place, we hear the same message: ‘Do something. For God’s sake, just do something,’” Biden said on the anniversary of the Uvalde shooting. “We did something afterwards, but not nearly enough.”
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