What is Joe Biden’s gun control plan?
PRESIDENT Joe Biden called for tighter gun control laws in the wake of the mass shooting in Colorado on March 22.
On March 22, gunman Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa stormed into a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, , .
The president spoke out at on March 23 in response to the one day before.
"As president, I’m going to use all the resources at my disposal to keep people safe," Biden said, according to .
He asked the Senate to "immediately pass" two House-passed bills relating to gun violence.
A shooter opened fire at the high school leaving 14 students and three educators dead on February 14, 2018.
Biden noted in his statement "the Parkland families have taught all of us something profound."
It would also close several loopholes in existing legislation and repeal a law that makes it harder to sue gunmakers and retailers when they manufacture or sell guns they should have known would have been used criminally.
He voted with Democrats to place a 10-year ban on semi-automatic weapons and voted in favor of the Brady handgun bill that same year.
"We have a huge problem with guns, assault weapons - military-style firearms designed to fire rapidly - are a threat to our national security, and we should treat them as such," he wrote.
"On the one hand, some believe that the Amendment's phrase 'the right of the people to keep and bear Arms' creates an individual constitutional right for citizens of the United States," the LII writes.
" Under this 'individual right theory,' the United States Constitution restricts legislative bodies from prohibiting firearm possession, or at the very least, the Amendment renders prohibitory and restrictive regulation presumptively unconstitutional.
"On the other hand, some scholars point to the prefatory language 'a well regulated Militia' to argue that the Framers intended only to restrict Congress from legislating away a state's right to self-defense."
The NRA warned that "a plan to pack the Court is a plan to destroy the Second Amendment."
"Biden and Harris have both made their own position on the Second Amendment clear: they don't believe law-abiding Americans have any right to possess firearms at all," the NRA says.
The NRA gave their support to former President Trump who they said: "has been a strong defender of the right to keep and bear arms."
"Enough," he said.
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"Once again, I urge Congress to take immediate action and heed the call of the American people, including the vast majority of gun owners, to help end this epidemic of gun violence in America.
"Every life that is taken by a bullet pierces the soul of our nation. We can, and we must, do more."