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Meet the ‘Fighter for Kids’
The reason why Carolina
Thiel-Span is like the
Energizer bunny

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris listen as Garnell Whitfield Jr., who lost his
mother Ruth Whitfield in the Tops market mass shooting in Buffalo, speaks during an event to
celebrate the passage of the "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act," on the South Lawn of the White
House, Monday, July 11, 2022, in Washington.
Associated Press

Biden celebration of new gun law page 11

clouded by latest shooting
Six therapists will be

By ZEKE MILLER Texas, incrementally tough- ic governors have taken
Associated Press ens requirements for young up the mantle of offering introduced in the social
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- people buying guns, denies outrage in the face of gun
dent Joe Biden welcomed firearms to more domes- violence. sector
a crowd to the White House tic abusers and helps lo- Biden hosted hundreds of
lawn Monday to showcase cal authorities temporarily guests on the South Lawn,
a new law meant to reduce take weapons from people including a bipartisan
gun violence, celebrating judged to be dangerous. group of lawmakers who
"real progress" after years But the "celebration" Mon- crafted and supported the
of inaction. But he also day morning came a week legislation, state and local
lamented the country re- after a gunman in Highland officials — including Illinois
mains "awash in weapons Park, Illinois, killed seven Gov. J.B. Pritzker and High-
of war" — with the 16-day- people at an Independ- land Park Mayor Nancy Ro-
old law already overshad- ence Day parade, a stark tering — and the families of
owed by yet another hor- reminder of the limitations victims of both mass shoot-
rific mass shooting. of the new law in address- ings and everyday gun vio-
The bill, passed after recent ing the American phenom- lence.
gun rampages in Buffalo, enon of mass gun violence.
New York, and Uvalde, And it comes as Democrat- Continued on next page page 7