WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden wasted little time before diving into his new role as head of a White House task force on gun violence, meeting yesterday with reps from a dozen law-enforcement groups from across the nation.
“I want to hear your views, because for anything to get done, we’re going to need your advocacy,” Biden said a day after President Obama put him in charge of a panel that’s expected to propose within a month how best to address the nation’s “epidemic” of gun violence.
Speaker John Boehner said the GOP-controlled House “will certainly take [the proposals] into consideration.”
As a senator from Delaware, Biden helped write the 1994 crime bill that included an assault-weapon ban that has since expired.