Biden sticking to his gun ban plans as the answer to America’s violent crime epidemic

Curbing gun violence is a priority of President Biden’s reelection campaign message, and topping his crime agenda is an implausible plan for Congress to ban America’s most popular rifles.

Mr. Biden has taken several executive actions and signed the first major gun safety bill in nearly three decades. Yet the U.S. remains awash in gun violence, including shocking bloodshed nearly every weekend this summer.

At least nine mass shootings shook cities across the nation this weekend, leaving more than a dozen dead and scores injured.

The body count included:

• Six people killed and eight...