Joe Biden made gun control an important part of his campaign platform.
He noted there are 40,000 gun deaths per year. To stop them, he will ban, regulate, confiscate and tax certain rifles, high capacity magazines and build-your-own kits; prohibit inheritance and private sales; stop minors from hunting with guns by imprisoning any parent who gives the minor access to a firearm; prevent teachers from defending their students; and let the trial lawyers off the leash to sue the American gun industry into oblivion to give the competitive edge to our foreign rivals.
All good stuff, but will it work? Of those 40,000 deaths, 30,000 are suicides committed by people who passed the background check, endured the waiting period, and fired a single round. None of Joe’s proposals will affect them.
Oh sure, he blandly proposes to improve access to mental health services, but the lack of detail and funding reveals the enormity of the problem. Most of those suicides are old white men who have lost everything and have nothing left to live for – you think they’re going to spill their guts to a mental health counsellor, hand over their gun and have a group hug? Ridiculous.
And his proposal does nothing to take guns away from the people who commit most of the gun violence in major cities. Instead, he’ll connect them with economic and social programs that may deter violence. Is it me or did Midnight Basketball just make a come-back?
Honestly, I’m surprised the Biden Administration is wasting time with impeachment. They should be pushing their gun control agenda as hard and fast as they can. They need to get the guns out of the hands of all those new gun buyers, so when they defund the police, the people will be entirely at the government’s mercy. Well, them and the criminals on the street.
Joe Doakes
I endorse Joe’s position entirely.
Democrats – get on your phones to A-Klo and the Butcher of Vandalia and get them to pressure President Harris to get on it, already.
Yep, the Dems’ infamous “defund the police & take away honest citizens guns” plans.
You think that is crazy?
They believe you must be made to believe that women can have penises and impregnate men.
But, yep, we dodged a bullet when Biden was sworn in . . .
JD inadvertently puts his finger on something here. Historically most new administrations achieve their most controversial legislative agenda items in the first 100 days, typically by May 1st. So far even with the eager assistance of 8 or 9 GOP senators not much is happening legislatively because the Trump Impeachment 2.0 is sucking up all the oxygen in DC. If we want to stymie the Harris/Biden agenda we should be doing everything we can to encourage A-Klo, Omar, etc to keep the clown show going. More time spent on Trump means less time on Democrat agenda.
Mac, alas, the pen and the phone are mightier than the Constitution. Bidon don’t need no stinking legislature to ram his agenda through.
One thing that always puzzles me about gun grabbers arguing suicide statistics as a reason to regulate or ban guns never seem to clue in to the fact that there are multiple ways one can choose to leave this world, and that there are a bunch of countries where suicide rates (at least as officially tabulated) dwarf ours. I guess in their minds, people who kill themselves with rope, knives, cars, cliffs, opiods, and the like don’t matter.