NEW: President Biden will host an event today marking the passage of the most significant federal gun legislation in nearly three decades and calling on Congress to do more to reduce firearms violence.
Among more than a dozen mass shootings in the U.S. over the Fourth of July weekend was one at an Independence DayJoining Biden at the White House "commemorating the historic achievement of the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act" will be survivors and family members of victims of mass shootings that have rocked the U.S. since 1999, according to the statement.
Among them are those affected by the massacres at Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Tucson, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Santa Fe, Uvalde, Buffalo and Highland Park — "as well as survivors and family members of daily acts of gun violence that don’t make national headlines," the White House noted. Elected officials representing communities affected by gun violence across the country and gun safety advocates and experts will also be in attendance at the event — as Biden pushes Congress to reinstate
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