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Biden Calls U.S. Gun Violence ‘International Embarrassment’

  • President unveils actions to curb gun violence Thursday
  • Executive actions include ghost guns and red flag laws

President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 8.

Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images 

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President Joe Biden announced a set of executive actions Thursday to curb gun violence, urging Congress to adopt stricter laws and rebutting arguments that his new measures impinge on Americans’ second amendment rights.

“Gun violence in this country is an epidemic, and it’s an international embarrassment,” Biden said in the Rose Garden of the White House.