Manuel Oliver, the father of a victim of a mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., interrupted President Biden as he gave a speech marking the passage of the first major gun legislation in more than a decade. “You have to do more,” Oliver shouted.
07/11/2022 01:19 PM EDTManuel Oliver, the father of a victim of a mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., interrupted President Joe Biden on Friday during a White House speech marking the passage of the first major gun legislation in more than a decade.
Manuel, who lost his 17-year-old son Joaquin Oliver in 2018, called on the president to open a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and appoint a gun czar. The president responded to Oliver’s demands, responding that “we have one” in response to the call for a federal office dedicated to gun violence. But the president acknowledged that more needs to be done to prevent mass shootings and said “let him talk” before Oliver was escorted out by White House security.
Oliver has been on the front lines of gun-control activism since losing his son in 2018, and was among other gun control activists who criticized the bill, arguing it does not go far enough to prevent mass shootings.
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