Dikhyaa Mohanty 
US President Joe Biden has announced a new set of actions aimed at reducing gun violence across the country. The Biden administration will crackdown on the illegal flow of guns, help prosecutors bring cases against those using “ghost guns” — unserialised and untraceable firearms — to commit crimes, and pursue unlawful gun sellers, among other things.
According to the reports, Biden paid a visit to New York City, where he called for more funding for community policing and law enforcement agencies. He stated that the answer is not to abandon their streets and the answer is not to defund the police.
Further, Biden was joined on the visit by US Attorney General Merrick Garland, as well as Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Gun deaths have also spiked in the US over the last two years.
The US reported 20,794-gun violence deaths in 2021, up from 19,490 deaths in 2020 and 15,474 fatalities in pre-pandemic 2019, according to the Gun Violence Archive. There have been 1,554-gun violence deaths in the United States so far this year, the data showed.
