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Aug 10, 2019, 5 tweets

.⁦@JoeBiden⁩ takes the stage and starts by thanking a victim of gun violence for her courage to work on this issue, citing how difficult it was for him to work on the cancer moonshot after the death of his son, Beau.

“We have to change the culture,” Biden says promising that he will take on the issue of guns as president, calling it one of the fights of his career along with the Violence Against Women Act

“No amendment is absolute,” Biden says of the second amendment at the @Everytown #GunSenseForum

Biden says he would “begin to make the case to the American people that there's no violation of your rights if in fact, you have to pass a background check, and you're the one and only one that can pull the trigger,” saying he would move to make smart gun technology law.

Biden gets fired up answering how he would take on the NRA:

“These guys will tell you the tree of liberty is water the blood of patriots—I mean for God’s sake!” Biden says to applause. #GunSenseForum

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