Given the small Democrat 2024 primary field led by President Joe Biden, gun violence prevention groups have little choice but to endorse him, according to The Hill.
Even while seeing Biden as the only "viable" candidate, the groups are concerned about the administration's limited action on the issue as the U.S. has topped 400 mass shootings this year, the report said.
The major groups behind Biden in 2024 include Everytown for Gun Safety, Brady and Team Enough, Community Justice Action Fund, and Giffords, according to The Hill.
A main demand from the groups for their support of Biden is that he creates a White House office to deal with the issue.
"We want to make sure the office is set up in a way that it has true authority, and it can be sustained long term — even beyond this administration — and we know that may or may not require congressional action," Community Justice Executive Director Greg Jackson, representing the largest Black survivor-led advocacy group, told the news outlet.
The report said Biden initially included $5 billion in funding for the office in the draft of his Inflation Reduction Act but cut it from the final bill.
"The unfinished work is there's a great deal of resources that we've been fighting for that have not been passed yet," Jackson said in the report.
According to the report, Biden's bipartisan gun safety bill signed last year was a first step in curbing gun violence, but Jackson did not see it as "enough."
"When you're talking about life and death and gun violence, talking about the safety of our kids, it's never enough," Peter Ambler, co-founder, and executive director of Giffords, told The Hill. "We have an unprecedented gun violence crisis in this nation. But what's clear is that President Biden is doing something about it. He has succeeded where other people have failed."
According to The Hill's report, Vice President Kamala Harris called out Republicans for fighting cultural battles and "banning books" rather than addressing gun violence.
"They're banning books. All the while, they refuse to pass reasonable gun safety laws," the outlet reported Harris as saying at a campaign reception in Medina, Washington.
The groups know that the items they want, including a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as requiring the safe storage of guns and ending manufacturers' immunity from liability, are likely to be blocked in the GOP-controlled House.
"I fully expect the president to continue fighting for gun safety measures in Congress, but we also know that the House majority is going to be somewhat hostile to those efforts," Ambler told The Hill.
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