President Joe Biden will urge Congress to pass gun control legislation in a prime-time address from the White House on Thursday, as a bipartisan group of lawmakers negotiates a possible agreement following a string of high-profile shootings.
“The president will deliver remarks on the recent tragic mass shootings and the need for Congress to act to pass commonsense laws to combat the epidemic of gun violence that is taking lives every day,” the White House said in a statement.
Biden will speak at 7:30 p.m. in Washington to a nation once again traumatized by horrific gun violence. Last week, a teenager killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas, and on Wednesday, a man killed two doctors and two other staff at a medical office in Oklahoma with a semiautomatic military-style rifle he bought the same day, the Associated Press reported.
