Biden re-ups call for gun control while commemorating Thousand Oaks mass shooting

President Joe Biden re-upped his call for gun control legislation on Tuesday while commemorating the five-year anniversary of the Thousand Oaks, California, mass shooting in which 12 people were killed.

Biden’s statement comes just days after he visited Lewiston, Maine, the site of two mass shootings in late October that killed nearly 20 people.

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“No family or community should ever have to go through what the Thousand Oaks community did that night. Yet, in the years since — from Lewiston to Highland Park, Buffalo to Uvalde, Monterey Park to El Paso, and thousands of communities impacted by daily acts of gun violence that do not make national headlines — our country has been devastated by an epidemic of gun violence again and again,” the president wrote.

He continued, “Today, our hearts are with all the victims and survivors of the Thousand Oaks attack, and those who are grieving the loved ones they lost five years ago. May we honor their memories by turning our heartbreak into action and ending our nation’s gun violence epidemic once and for all.”

Biden claimed to be “doing everything in [his] power as president to end the scourge of gun violence” in his statement, highlighting the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the creation of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and “dozens of executive actions” that have come into effect under his administration.

“I’ve also continued to call on Republicans in Congress to help pass commonsense gun safety policies — like banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and much more — that we know can save lives,” Biden said.

Despite ushering a bipartisan gun control package through Congress in 2022, the current Republican House majority makes passing additional legislation on the topic highly unlikely.

Still, the Lewiston shooting flipped at least one vote in relation to Biden’s assault weapons ban: Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME).

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Golden was one of the few Democratic holdouts opposing Biden’s calls to reinstate the ’90s-era ban.

“I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war,” he said at an Oct. 27 press conference in Lewiston. “The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure, which is why I now call on the United States Congress to ban assault rifles.”