quote of the week "for folks at home, here's what you need to know: i've been at this a long time and there are things we know that work that reduce gun violence and violent crime, and things that we don't know about. but things we know about: background checks for purchasing a firearm are important; a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines - no one needs to have a weapon that can fire over 30, 40, 50, even up to 100 rounds unless you think the deer are wearing kevlar vests or something; community policing and programs that keep neighborhoods safe and keep folks out of trouble. these efforts worked. they saved lives. but over time, these policies were gutted and were woefully underfunded. in our conversation today, we talked about our strategy to supercharge what works while we continue to push the congress to act on sensible gun violence legislation." - president joe biden on wednesday announcing the new white house strategy to address gun violence. 