Transforming outrage over the gun deaths of children into legislative action could be difficult for Biden, especially if Republicans win control of the House in midterm elections in November.
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Washington | Gun violence in the United States is reaching new heights, but public support for tighter restrictions on buying firearms has declined in the past few years, leaving reform-minded Democrats and Republicans frustrated.
An impassioned President Joe Biden has demanded swift action on gun safety in response to this week’s massacre at a Texas elementary school, where a lone gunman shot dead 19 children and two teachers with an arsenal of weaponry.
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