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March 22, 2013

Biden Pushes for Assault Weapons Ban Ditched by Senate Democrats 
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Vice President Joe Biden is continuing to push for an assault weapons
ban even after it was dropped by Senate Democrats from a pending
gun-control package due to a lack of support. Biden was joined Thursday
by relatives of those killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,
Connecticut, as he spoke at New York’s City Hall alongside Mayor
Michael Bloomberg.

Vice President Joe Biden: "For all those who say we shouldn't and can't
ban assault weapons, for all those who say the politics is too hard, how
can they say that, when you take a look at those 20 beautiful babies and
what happened to them, and those six teachers and administrators. This
same man, he not only came loaded with an assault weapon, a weapon of
war, he came loaded with one 30-round magazine after another, one after
another. An estimated 150 bullets were fired by this young man. For all
those who think we shouldn't or couldn't ban high-capacity magazines, I
just ask them one question, think about Newtown."

 

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