Biden ‘Fully Committed’ to More Gun Control…and Hypocrisy

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U.S.A. — President Joe Biden remains “fully committed to further regulations on guns,” according to a recent report in The Advocate, but a statement from the White House following a deadly shooting at a mall in Allen, Texas suggests he is also committed to hypocrisy.

In a Briefing Room statement, Biden referred to the eight people killed in Allen and then said, “Jill and I are praying for their families and for others critically injured.”

However, as Business Insider noted, “Biden called out Republicans for sending ‘thoughts and prayers’ following the latest mass shooting, and called on members of Congress to pass gun-control bills.”

If Biden can do it, why can’t Republicans? Does the Oval Office have a monopoly on prayers for murder victims?

Whatever else Biden wants in during the remainder of his presidency, restrictive gun control and a ban on semi-auto rifles remains at the top of his wish list, The Advocate story indicated. Following the shooting in Allen, Biden made what has become a reflexive pitch for additional gun controls. He also wants to eliminate the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which protects the firearms industry from junk lawsuits trying to hold gun makers responsible for crimes committed with their products.

As reported in the Business Insider article, “Biden noted that the Texas gunman wore tactical gear and was armed with an AR-15-style weapon.”

“Once again I ask Congress to send me a bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” Biden said in a prepared statement. “Enacting universal background checks. Requiring safe storage. Ending immunity for gun manufacturers…”

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Biden is “using his bully pulpit; he’s been very clear.”

Following the shooting, Biden dragged out the traditional gun control wish list. In a tweet, he spoke of a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines,” universal background checks and a safe storage mandate. These are all things he has been wanting for years, long before the mall shooting in Allen.

If Congress were to deliver such legislation, Biden says he would “sign it immediately,” according to Politico.

But Congress does not appear inclined to accommodate the gun control president. While he’s been outspoken on the gun control issue, Biden has also acknowledged he has essentially done all he can, and that the ball is in Congress’ court.

Press reports about Biden’s inability to get the GOP-led House to cooperate on gun control routinely fail to mention two important points.

In a story published by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in June 2022, it is clearly explained, so that even a reporter can understand, “Nearly two decades ago the Department of Justice funded a study to analyze this very topic, and it concluded that the assault weapon prohibition had ‘mixed’ results.

“Researchers noted there was a decline in crimes committed with firearms classified as assault weapons,” the report acknowledged, “but noted ‘the decline in AW use was offset throughout at least the late 1990s by steady or rising use of other guns.’

“In other words,” the FEE article explained, “there was a decline in crimes committed with firearms that were banned, but the drop was replaced by crimes committed with other types of firearms that were not banned.

“While gun violence overall fell in the US during this period—just like many other countries around the world—the decline continued even after the Federal Assault Weapons Ban ended in 2004. Authors of the government-funded study plainly stated ‘we cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence’ and any future reduction in gun violence as a result of the ban was likely ‘to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.’”

Add to that a Rand report from earlier this year which noted, “we find inconclusive evidence for the effect of assault weapon bans on mass shootings,” and “we find limited evidence that high-capacity magazine bans reduce mass shootings.”

The second point is even more egregious because the White House and the media can easily look at the annual FBI Uniform Crime Reports, which consistently show that rifles of any kind are used in only a fraction of homicides in any given year. According to FBI data, far more people are murdered annually with knives or “personal weapons” (i.e. fists, feet, hands) than with rifles.

Possibly the biggest hypocrisy of all is that Biden, and his allies in Congress, are all protected by the same kinds of guns they want to ban for everyone else.


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Arizona

Most important of all, neither Biden nor congress have any legal authority to ban AR’s or magazines or weapons of any kind! The founders had just defeated the most powerful military nation in the world when they wrote the Constitution and amendments, and specifically prohibited their new government from regulating, policing limiting or banning citizens’ arms, to ensure their new government did not outgun its citizens. The founders wanted citizens to forever have at minimum parity with the government, to prevent tyranny from gaining a foothold.

Logician

An excellent history lesson there, Arizona!! Let’s teach it to everyone!!

Montana454Casull

Criminal Joe Biden better be more concerned about the current revelations from congress about his and Hunters influence peddling scheme . Joe is the most compromised criminal treasonous POS to ever occupy the oval office .

Laddyboy

NEXT TO 0b0z0 the American HATING Muzzy with a Tranny Mate!!!!!!!!! YET, Muzzies KILL transvestites!!

Coelacanth

I predict that absolutely nothing will come of it. FJB is Teflon.

USMC0351Grunt

That is because America has been transformed into a mass majority of spineless pussies that are too comfortable in their self-indulgent environments and lifestyles of consumerism to be bothered to leave their comfort zones to give a damn about the nation as a whole.

Snatchsquatch

FJB

Choogie

And the horse he rode in on with all of his minions standing before the big hole.

USMC0351Grunt

What are you talking about? That jackass can’t even ride a bicycle or climb a flight of stairs.

BillyBobTexas

As always, I’ll be glad to have this discussion on the day AFTER the Capitol Hill Police and the Secret Service is disarmed. According to MY family, my life is worth more than the politicians’ life. WTH are they to have personal protection and tell my family we cannot?????

ALL GUN LAWS ARE INFRINGEMENTS

All this demtard puppet can do is repeat what his handlers are feeding him….he is brain dead 1000%

J.galt

Should have stopped at “biden being committed”

Mystic Wolf

You can bet that this was a planned attack so that the byden could push even more of his gun control bs, you can also bet that these occurrences ars going to happen even more often now as the byden is all but demanding a total disarmament of the people of this country. Every SATAN WORSHIPPING DEMONCRAT has wanted the exact same thing the people being disarmed. Without the means to defend ourselves we would get hit with a dictatorship faster than you can sneeze, and without a means of defense how many other countries would be lining up to… Read more »

USMC0351Grunt

What do you mean by, “lining up to do a takeover of this country”? They have been FREELY WALKING IN for the past 2 1/2 years, stopping long enough to pick up their $3,200 debit cards with OUR Social Security money on them! THAT is for EVERY man, woman and child! Our military and it’s reserves are in the crapper and MOST of America has turned off the fake news and doesn’t recognize truth or reality anymore.

Chris Mallory

They have been invading for 200 years. We should have slammed the borders shut in 1790. And while we are at it, remember that the Founders were opposed to standing armies. The only job of the US military is to defend the borders of the United States. Not policing the world.

Bigfootbob

Yes, to normal people Brandon is the epitome of a hypocrite. I think in reality though, he’s not as much a hypocrite as an ideologue who disrespects or understands the intellectual properties of the rank & file dimocRAT supporter. He might not, but the people who write every word Brandon utters or tries to say, knows exactly what they are saying. Tell a lie often enough, a dimocRAT will swear it’s gospel soon after. Thank you, Sir, for using your brain/talent to write this, unlike the other pathetic content producers here using AI to write their articles. Ridiculous thing to… Read more »

J.galt

Hypocrite? biden doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to be a hypocrite.

biden doesn’t have two brain cells to rub together. He’s got the I Q of a wrecking ball. He isn’t doing anything by himself except dripping ice cream onto the couch

gene

this anti-American a–hole needs to be removed from our country

Mystic Wolf

Well he is taking some of his orders from china as they are and have been paying the byden family around 10 million per year for at least the last 8 years or so.

Mac

The MORON n’ Chief needs to pay attention to the boarder and leave law abiding citizens alone!

Mystic Wolf

The byden does not care about the southern border, he even said last year that the US no longer has a southern border that it is wide open, yet they keep saying that the border has never been more secure.

Rowboat

First of all, the gun ignorant Democrats, don’t have ANY answers to curb so called “gun violence “. So, instead of addressing the mental health problem, which it surly is, they harp on the simplistic approach of banning the guns, which has never worked anywhere.
Do they also want to ban shovels that the mentally deranged son was using to kill his mother?

ruffhouse

We can’t vote our way out of this disaster. When our elections are toast, so are we.
Pass the butter, please.

https://lancepeckerwood.substack.com/p/we-are-not-gonna-vote-our-way-out

FL-GA

Joe Biden could benefit from some, “AI technology and may contain some automated content and analysis.”

USMC0351Grunt

The one thing that eludes these anti-gun idiots is that the precise moment any ink-to-paper on unconstitutional legislation of this type takes us right back to Lexington & Concord on steroids.

A pathetic waste of government manpower, taxpayer money and resources that could be better spent housing our homeless Veterans, breaking up the whorehouses of child sex-trafficking that occur at the major sporting events, our border and elsewhere, child transgender mutilations, the rise of sharia in America and so many other of society’s ills that are taking place amongst a mostly apathetic citizenry.

Chuck

It was Biden’s DOD that Screwed the Pooch and didn’t flag this Whacko in the NICS system as a No Sale.

Chev

#FJB, the horse he rode in on, and the herd he runs with. He does not have the authority under the Constitution to make law. His Excrement Odors mean nothing, as the BATFE has no legislative authority. The SCOTUS will rule soon on Illinois’s “Assault Weapons Ban” with Barrett demanding that they prove they can do it under the historic meaning of the 2nd Amendment. It’s time to retake America from the leftist buffoonery that started under 0bama and is continuing under his pupil 0biden.

GomeznSA

Dave – good observations as usual. Has anyone figured out the reason that slow joe has such deep seated hatred of guns – except for balcony shotguns of course. Or is he just parroting the ‘suggestions’ of his gun banning minders?

Laddyboy

The TITLE of this “story” is all wrong! “Biden is committed — to a mental institution for being a DANGER to himself AND OTHER Americans!” THERE!!! I FIXED the REAL STORY AND TITLE!!

Mac

Joe Biden, the hypocrite in chief.

Logician

I would just love it, if someone could explain to me why it’s a good idea to rely upon a 100% corrupted and criminal legal system, for any amount of justice!! There is no justice in the legal system now, because it’s all about getting convictions on men and women and putting them in prisons to make profits! Nobody who is an Officer, Agent, Actor or Operator of the legal system is really interested in this thing called justice, only justifications for their committing criminal acts upon us! You don’t need to study the criminal justice system for 35 years… Read more »

Chris Mallory

Yes, calling the progressives out on their hypocrisy, that is sure to work. They don’t care.

USMC0351Grunt

When, if ever, are we going to get a columnist or think tank of columnists to begin writing about SOLUTIONS to these many unconstitutional incursions we face?

Bigfootbob

Damn good question,Sir! One I ask frequently too. Paul Valone offers solutions, good effective ones. I’m sure many of the others just don’t consider it important. Their columns only have so many inch space.