New Orleans bounce performer and reality television star Big Freedia has become an activist speaking out against gun violence. 

On Thursday, President Joe Biden rolled out a slate of executive measures to address gun violence in the United States. 

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Biden’s announcement came hours after a shooting in Rock Hill, South Carolina and the same day as another in Bryan, Texas. 

He directed the Justice Department to propose rules to slow the use of “ghost guns,” propose model red flag legislation and reclassify pistols modified with stabilizer braces to be subject to the National Firearms Act, The Hill reported. 

Biden also said gun violence is an epidemic and a national embarrassment.  

Big Freedia became an activist on the topic of gun violence after being a victim and losing her brother. 

In 2005, she was shot and thirteen years later, in 2018, her brother Adam Ross was shot and killed. 

After the trauma she experienced, Big Freedia began to use her platform to enact change. 

In the documentary Freedia Got a Gun, she put the national spotlight on gun violence and its impact on communities and families. 

Big Freedia joined Black News Tonight with Marc Lamont Hill to discuss the fight to end gun violence. 

When referencing the trauma that comes with growing up in a community plagued by guns, she said prayer and helping her community has helped her navigate.

“I have been seeing gun violence since I was a kid and it has not improved at all,” she said.

For 31 consecutive years, Big Freedia’s home state of Louisiana has held the nation’s highest murder rate, the New York Times reported.