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President Biden repeatedly shouted that he wasn’t “joking” and that he was “serious” during a stump speech in Pennsylvania on Tuesday — as he addressed reducing gun violence and a renewed push to ban assault-style weapons.
Biden uttered the two phrases at least half-a dozen times during his 30-minute address to a crowd of more than 500 stone-faced supporters in Wilkes-Barre while touting his administration’s crime-prevention efforts.
The 79-year-old used his remarks in the swing state to continue to pressure Congress to revive a long-expired federal ban on assault-style weapons, arguing there was no rationale for such weapons “outside of a war zone.”
“No, I’m not joking,” he told the crowd at Wilkes University at one point after mentioning how parents in the recent Uvalde, Texas school massacre had to supply DNA to identify their slain children.
