U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Senator Chuck Grassley has sent a letter to President Biden over Democrats’ refusal to take responsibility for the rising crime rates and blaming law-abiding gun owners.
You should know Senator Grassley from the Obama-era Operation Fast & Furious scandal. He is a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was a key member of Congress that pushed for an investigation into the ATF letting guns flow to the ruthless Mexican drug cartels.
The Senator’s letter targets Biden’s attack on unfinished frames and receivers, or as Biden calls them, “ghost guns”. Grassley calls the Biden attack “rhetoric.” And he is right. Grassley points out that less than 1% of all homicides involve homemade firearms.
Out of 89,000 homicides between 2016 and 2020, only 325 involve so-called “ghost guns.” The Biden administration is claiming that 20,000 suspected ghost guns reported to ATF have been recovered in criminal investigations. Senator Grassley correctly points out that number is misleading. Biden’s number includes firearms that had their serial numbers filed off by criminals. The Biden administration knows that, but he continues to use the misleading number to scare the public.
The Senator also points out that Biden has done nothing that will tackle the 30% spike in murders.
Grassley states: “Democrats have recently attempted to shift the blame for the rise in violence in blue cities to not only lawful gun owners, but also conservative states. However, the data from 2020 shows that it is actually the Democrat-led cities within red states that are causing dramatic per capita murder rates.”
And he is correct, but will anyone listen to him? The mainstream media will not cover it, that is for sure.
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To say that Dems’ rhetoric is “misleading” is a gross understatement of fact.
Making a deliberately misleading statement is in fact a LIE, and when politicians make misleading statements, it’s done intentionally the vast majority of the time.
This isn’t about guns, it’s about lawlessness, and that’s entirely on the Dems. They cause crime so they can attack our RKBA and infringe on us!!
Political posturing nothing more I fear the republicans have nothing new to offer only rebuttal to the democrats failures. It would be refreshing to hear from all republicans that the constitution is the law of the land and the right to protect ourselves is self explanatory in the second amendment end of conversation. Republicans need to get aggressive on every issues were the democrats policies have failed.They won’t the fact is republican leaders are all Rhinos working with the crooked democrats and the deep state for their own self preservation and greed. Let’s not kid ourselves if you look at… Read more »
OK, call out time. Chuck, you hail from what might be the socially most conservative state in the union. Iowa rivals my Mohave County AZ in issues like church attendance, gun ownership, traditional family structure and routine big game harvesting. So where have you been for the past 300 years on these issues? And have you ever in your political career used the term “Progressive New Left’ to call out the nemesis plaguing our nation? YOu know, that whole creeping Cultural Marxism thing? No. You and your progressive big government RINO class is noted for its absence on such issues.… Read more »
At least as far back as 1968 that I can Recall and even before that. LBJ stole his first election in Texas.
Yea we get it. It’s the blame game while Rebloodlicans watch & let it all burn. Smupidity = The intentional manipulation of pointing a finger at one side while both parties are part of the same plan. A portmanteau of being Smart + appearing Stupid = Smupid. I wonder how many guns from ATF’s Gunrunner type of operations were used to kill human being’s ? Any meaningful & truthful study of that ? Who’s on first … Guns are imbedded/ingrained/integrated into America’s DNA. Look at NZ/Oz/UK/France & see how unarmed peasants & serfs are treated on a whole different level.… Read more »
When the members of Antifa are met with extreme prejudice do to attacking the wrong group it will send a message that won’t soon be forgotten. So far they pick and choose their targets that are week and unable to defend themselves. While coming armed with frozen water bottles bats paint bombs rocks fireworks all deadly weapons & dressed like terrorist. The police are wrong for not responding to taxpayers calls for help if they themselves are ordered to be victims of these hate groups that is on them and their commanders. Serve and Protect When the police fail to… Read more »