Vice President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak on Thursday at a conference on gun violence in Connecticut just 10 miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, scene of the Dec. 14 mass shooting.
The symposium, held at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, is hosted by Connecticut Democratic lawmakers Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. Elizabeth Esty. It includes panel discussions with: local, state and national leaders; law enforcement; mental health experts; sportsmen; faith leaders; and families and survivors of gun violence.
Biden is slated to deliver a speech at 12:30 p.m. ET. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is also one of the speakers scheduled to address the conference on Thursday.
Biden has been the White House's lead on gun violence after President Barack Obama chose him to head up a gun reform task force in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting.
Biden in 1994 was the architect of legislation that temporarily banned assault weapons. The president and Biden have been advocating reinstating that ban as well as a ban on high-capacity magazine clips, universal background checks, and other measures they believe will reduce gun violence.
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