Joe Biden Slams Republicans Over Efforts To Abolish The ATF During Gun Safety Event

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President Biden delivered remarks on Tuesday at a gun safety event where he called out Republicans over their efforts to abolish the ATF.

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00:00And by the way, this is most important.

00:03The only industry in America that has immunity are gun deals.

00:08We got to end it.

00:09End it now.

00:10You know I mean it.

00:11Imagine.

00:12Imagine if we gave tobacco an exception, they could not be prosecuted.

00:29And what would happen?

00:30We'd still have a thousand more people be dying of cancer because of the smoke inhalation.

00:34It's time to increase funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives

00:39and other law enforcement agencies as well to solve the crimes faster.

00:46Look, unfortunately, it's the only partisan thing I'm going to say.

00:52The Congressional Republicans oppose all of these.

00:54Every one of these.

00:55Instead of trying to stop our ban on ghost gun kits that contain these commit crimes,

01:02they're working like hell to stop it.

01:04They want to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives, which

01:09is responsible for fighting gun crimes.

01:12You can't be pro-law enforcement and say you are pro-law enforcement and be pro-abolishing

01:17the AFT.

01:18You can't do it.

01:19It's outrageous.

01:20It's outrageous.

01:21I disagree with some of my own party and on the other side about a lot of things, but

01:29at least there's some rational argument they have as part of their argument.

01:34What in God's name is the rationale for taking away the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms?

01:40After a school shooting in Iowa that killed a student and a teacher, my predecessor was

01:44asked about it.

01:46You remember what he said.

01:47He said, you have to get over it.

01:50Hell no, we don't have to get over it.

01:52We've got to stop it.

01:54We've got to stop it and stop it now.

02:05More children are killed in America by guns than cancer and car accidents combined.

02:11My predecessor told the NRA convention recently, he's proud that, quote, I did nothing on guns

02:18when I was president.

02:19And by doing nothing, he made the situation considerably worse.

02:23That's why every town, why this summit, why all of you here today are so damn important.

02:28We need you.

02:29We need you to overcome the unrelenting opposition of the gun lobby, gun manufacturers, so many

02:34politicians when they oppose common sense gun legislation.

Joe Biden Slams Republicans Over Efforts To Abolish The ATF During Gun Safety Event

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