President Biden on Friday will announce the creation of a new office for gun violence prevention, an escalation of the administration’s efforts to tackle the issue amid stalled progress in Congress, according to four people briefed on the action who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans that were not yet public.

Biden and Vice President Harris are scheduled to announce the new office at an event in the White House Rose Garden on Friday afternoon, the people said.

Greg Jackson, a gun violence survivor who is the executive director of the Community Justice Action Fund, and Rob Wilcox, the senior director for federal government affairs at Everytown for Gun Safety, are expected to have key roles in the office, the people said.

  • @Touching_Grass
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    51 year ago

    Yea it does. And I did not say powerful as a result of owning a gun. I said powerful in that your opinion has more weight to being more knowledgeable.

    Gotta be honest, and not trying to be rude but you’re showing a good example why just reading is not a great way to learn something. You miss a lot of things.

    • Flying Squid
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      -31 year ago

      So now not only do I have to own a gun in order to have an opinion about gun regulation, I can’t have an opinion on it because “I miss a lot of things?”

      That’s quite the gatekeeping you’re doing.

          • @Touching_Grass
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            41 year ago

            I’m going to respectfully decline as this is feeling too much like a reddit thread at this point.