WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden on Friday announced a new office dedicated to gun violence prevention, his latest effort to combat a growing national crisis through executive action instead of the more sweeping reforms that would require congressional approval. The office will be led by Vice President Kamala Harris. Its focus will be on helping the administration coordinate gun policy and pressing congressional leaders to act on the issue. “We all want our kids to have the freedom to learn how to read and write instead of duck and cover, for God’s sake,” Biden said during remarks in the Rose Garden, where survivors of school shootings were among the hundreds of attendees.