US President Joe Biden created new White House gun violence prevention agency;which will monitor the implementation of existing legislation and work with local authorities to pass bills at the state level.

The new agency will be headed by US Vice President Kamala Harris and will include gun control activists, officials said.

“I will continue to ask Congress to take commonsense actions that the majority of Americans support, such as background checks on prospective gun buyers, bans on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines,” Biden said in a statement. the white house.

“But, absent these necessary actions, the Office to Prevent Gun Violence in partnership with the rest of my administration will continue to do everything they can to address the epidemic of gun violence that is destroying families us, our communities and our country”, he added.

Biden and Harris they will refer to this initiative today in the afternoon from the White House.

Democrats favor stricter gun laws, believing that this will reduce gun deaths in schools and elsewhere across the country. This issue is expected to have a special place in Biden’s election campaign for the 2024 presidential election.

Republicans, on the other hand, with the support of the pro-gun organization National Rifle Association (NRA), they oppose the adoption of stricter legislation, citing the right of Americans to own guns, as protected by the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.

The creation of this gun violence prevention agency has long been a call for anti-gun activists.

“We are very pleased that the Biden administration has officially created an agency to prevent gun violence,” responded Chris Brown, president of the Brady organization.

“As FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) activates in hurricanes and earthquakes, we desperately needed a federal agency dedicated to addressing this worsening public health crisis,” he added.