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Biden renews call for assault weapons ban after 'tragic and senseless' spate of July 4 shootings

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    2% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    21% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : He said it was "within our power" to ban AR-15-style weapons and high-capacity magazines while also enforcing safe storage of guns and enacting universal background checks.
42% : In the wake of the shooting, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and Highland Park mayor Nancy Rotering had worked with gun control advocates to ban assault rifles and high capacity magazines in the state.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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