U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- An estimated 21 veterans kill themselves every day. One would be too many. Twenty-one is cataclysmic.
It is difficult to understand why so many develop thoughts of self-harm, but military life does take a tremendous toll. More than 500,000 veterans have been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and more than 380,000 have suffered traumatic brain injuries. Other unseen wounds abound. I pray regularly that someone will find a solution to stop this daily horror.
As difficult as it is to accept this loss, it is far more difficult to believe anyone would use these deaths to help sell their political agenda, but that is exactly what Joe Biden is doing.
The Biden-Harris administration is using veteran suicides to garner public support for their war on gun dealers, whom they blame for skyrocketing violent crime rates in cities historically controlled by Democrats.
“The Biden administration is rolling out a new initiative aimed at reducing suicides by gun and combating the significant increases in suicides by members of the military and veterans,” the Associated Press reported Wednesday. As part of the plan, Biden will order the ATF to “seek to revoke the licenses of dealers the first time that they violate federal law.”
This is nothing new. Biden first announced he was targeting gun dealers in June. The only difference is now he’s doing it for the veterans.
That’s sick – even for Biden – using the deaths of heroes to sell his gun control plan.
The other team doesn’t care. They love the plan. John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, told the AP the administration was “blazing a new path to keep guns away from people who could be a danger to themselves.”
To be clear, gun dealers – even the rogue ones – do not contribute to veteran suicides. The Veterans Administration contributes to veteran suicides. If a veteran decides they need help, they’ll spend months fighting to get the VA to accept that their illness is service-related and that they qualify for care. Democrats want to give away universal healthcare. In my humble opinion, it should go to the people who have earned it. All veterans should have access to immediate care.
What troubles me most is that Biden so cavalierly stereotyped us, again.
The vast majority of veterans are well adjusted and more law-abiding than the rest of the public. We lead superior lives after separating from the military, and we will continue to do so, despite the blood-dancing by an ungrateful commander-in-chief.
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About Lee Williams
Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
“The Biden administration is rolling out a new initiative aimed at reducing suicides by gun”…
Yeah, and to increase the amount of suicides by automobile, overdosing, and jumping off of buildings. They only care about guns. They WANT vets to kill themselves… just by other means. Pretty sick in the head, aren’t they?
Glad this article covers the subject of veteran disarmament.
NRA pushed a bill back in 2007 that they characterized as pro-gun, but in fact was a veteran disarmament bill. RINOs in Congress voted for it, as did Demorats. Some Republicans saw what I did, the antigun sections tucked away in the middle of it. That was the year I resigned my NRA life membership and became a GOA lifer.
There is a TV commercial that has been running for the past several weeks showing a man who is contemplating suicide, only to end talking about locking up the handgun and showing a padlock with the gun.
Doesn’t say who is behind the ad but shows a VA emblem in the corner.
Like the lock will stop someone who is determined to end it.
Give the vets the help they ask for, they earned it.
we need to add a line to form 4473 are you a registered democrat automatic disqualification
Biden is going to have a fight on his hands with this one because the law says they can revoke the FFL only for “willful” violations of the law. Missing that a customer didn’t check one box on one 4473 does not meet that standard.
Joe “Slippers” Biden once again dismisses all speculation that he is a worthless pile of Monkey Crap!
thousands and thousands of good, honorable Veterans are spinning in their graves!
Ilegitiment clown show Joe Biden has disqualified himself as an authority on guns with his shotgun advice from his porch . Our veterans deserve the help they earned not Joe attacking thier rights . 48 years in politics and the idiot has failed everyone every step of the way . We need real leadership in the oval office not the ilegitiment clownshow Joe Biden !
Good Article Lee, too bad the Government doesn’t do more for them instead of doing more stupid things that don’t help them.
Good article, brings attention to the deceitful leftist Biden admin as well as our Veterans needs.
Biden and his puppet masters have no shame and this latest move is indicative of just how EVIL these so-called “people” are and is beneath contempt.