President Joe Biden’s campaign is preparing to make gun safety a central issue of his reelection campaign . Biden is angrier about the disconnect between where the country is and where Washington is on this issue more than almost any other issue . Every major gun safety group jointly endorsed Biden for reelection this week and several of their leaders tell they expect to campaign and spend heavily in races from president down to state legislature seats . The issue they say is now mobilizing many voters and has become a litmus test for a growing number of them including those in the school shooting generation of younger voters or just the many Americans who have grown frustrated with news of frequent mass shootings and gun violence in the streets . Biden knows the assault weapons ban he keeps calling for will never pass in the current Congress . Biden’s focus though will not just be on the big new executive action which White House officials have been quietly urging forward in the internal review process but also on calling attention to the ongoing implementation of the American Rescue Plan and on the historic bipartisan gun reform bill . Gun safety advocates also have been pressing Biden advisers and other Democrats to set strategy for to see another political benefit in talking about a rise in crime . Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says he is ready for a different kind of conversation on guns . The president should go out and tout the ideas that he has to do more . The American people are ready for different kinds of conversations on guns. The president is ready to tout things that he needs to do and touts the things that they have to do. The idea of a different type of conversation about gun violence. The issue is not to ignore the idea. The American People are ready to talk about guns. They are ready. They need to talk to them. They have
Biden preps rollout of expanded background checks as part of major gun safety push into 2024
