'We should have societal guilt for taking too long to deal with this problem. We have a moral obligation to pass and enforce laws that can prevent these things from happening again,' Biden said in a statement.
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden marked 10 years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut on Wednesday by saying Americans should have "societal guilt" for failing to address gun violence appropriately in the decade since.
"We should have societal guilt for taking too long to deal with this problem. We have a moral obligation to pass and enforce laws that can prevent these things from happening again," Biden said in a statement. The Democratic president has renewed vows to secure a new ban on assault weapons in the United States and has turned up the heat on lawmakers to pass legislation before his party loses control of the U.S. House of Representatives next month.
"Still, we must do more. I am determined to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines like those used at Sandy Hook and countless other mass shootings in America," he said.
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