Re: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/b...ol-and-gun-violence/ar-BB1gc1gx?ocid=msedgdhp
Admittedly this post is long. If you're not interested in pending legislation then move along. Continue to wallow in ignorance because that's precisely what progressives want. They want you dumb and dependent.
Biden's Lie #1- “In the early 2000s, the law (Assault Weapons Ban) expired, and we’ve seen daily bloodshed since,” Biden said, before adding, “I’m not saying if the law continued, we wouldn’t see bloodshed.”
Biden is insinuating that once the Federal Assault Weapons Ban sunsetted in 2004, gun violence skyrocketed. It simply wasn’t so. The rate of gun homicide continued falling for more than a decade after the ban ended, even though gun ownership exploded. From 2006, overall homicides fell ten out of 14 years. Twenty-one years after a gun violence peaked in 1993, and a decade after the assault-weapon ban ended, homicides by firearms hit a historic low. By that time, the AR-15 had become the most popular rifle in the country. In 2004, there were 14,536 overall homicides in the United States. In 2019, the last year on record, there were 14,185. During that span, Americans bought north of 100 million new guns. That trend has only accelerated the past two years. Even in years gun homicides didn’t fall, the spikes had little to do with “assault weapons,” since the rifle is used in only fraction of gun crimes. And “assault weapons” had even less to do with gun violence when the ban was passed in the 1990s. Though there is no question mass shooters tend to gravitate towards AR-15s today, there is also no evidence that mass shooting themselves increased after the ban lifted, either.
www.nationalreview.com
Biden's Lie #2- Closing the "Charleston Loophole" will prevent mass shootings like the one by Dylann Roof.
Yesterday, the National Shooting Sports Foundation obtained an email from Ashleigh Wilson, legislative director and counsel to House majority whip James Clyburn, urging congressional colleagues to co-sponsor to “The Enhanced Background Check Act.”
The bill, which will likely move forward without any debates, hearings, or mark-ups, is ostensibly meant to close the so-called “Charleston Loophole.”
Here is how Wilson describes it:
This is highly misleading. In 2015, the New York Times asserted that those “conducting the background check did not have access to that police report,” a framing that would soon dominate media coverage. In reality, local prosecutors had failed to respond to the FBI’s request for information about Dylann Roof’s case. It was a case of human error, or perhaps negligence, but that doesn’t make it a “loophole.” No ambiguity or inadequacy exists in the law simply because a mistake has undermined it. The FBI is empowered to retrieve a gun after it notices an error was made. If it fails to follow up, that’s a law-enforcement problem.
“This common-sense legislation extends the time allowed for the completion of a background check for firearm sales from three days to ten days, giving the FBI time to completely process each check,” Clyburn explains. (Of course, if it were “common-sense,” he wouldn’t need to tell us.) The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) processed more background checks this year than any year in history — and it wasn’t even close. The FBI doesn’t need ten days to run those checks, and it didn’t need ten days in 2015, either. Rather, it needed states and localities to enter criminal-possession charges into its system.
www.nationalreview.com
So it was law enforcement's failure to execute (which was also the case at Orlando Nightclub and Sutherland Springs, TX) and not some loophole.
Checkout this excerpt from Biden's speech after the Boulder shooting. Here he admits he really doesn't give a damn about details. He wants to ban "assault weapons" just because...
Joe Biden: (03:35)
And thirdly, I want to be very clear. This is the one thing I do know enough to say on in terms of what’s happened there. While we’re still waiting for more information regarding the shooter, his motive, the weapons he used, the gun, the magazines, the weapons, the modifications that apparently have taken place to those weapons that are involved here. I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps or save the lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act. We can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country, once again. I got that done when I was a Senator. It passed. It was a law for the longest time and it brought down these mass killings. We should do it again.
www.rev.com
So what it all boils down to is this. According to Biden "you don't need" an AR with high capacity magazines, nor is it incumbent upon him, Rep. James Clyburn or any other lawmaker to justify it. Rather, it's up to you to justify it. That's their idea of representative government. Take, take, take and suppress dissenting opinion so long as they can get away with it without losing their job.
Take solace, however. Poll numbers are turning against gun control. More and more people see through the charade. It's a power grab at your 2nd Amendment rights. You should care even if you don't own a gun. Without the 2nd Amendment the other amendments collapse like a house of cards. Our forefathers had the foresight to include it in the Bill of Rights for good reason: first-hand experience dealing with tyranny. They put their @sses on the line. Time for you to man up, too.
Thank you.
Admittedly this post is long. If you're not interested in pending legislation then move along. Continue to wallow in ignorance because that's precisely what progressives want. They want you dumb and dependent.
Biden's Lie #1- “In the early 2000s, the law (Assault Weapons Ban) expired, and we’ve seen daily bloodshed since,” Biden said, before adding, “I’m not saying if the law continued, we wouldn’t see bloodshed.”
Biden is insinuating that once the Federal Assault Weapons Ban sunsetted in 2004, gun violence skyrocketed. It simply wasn’t so. The rate of gun homicide continued falling for more than a decade after the ban ended, even though gun ownership exploded. From 2006, overall homicides fell ten out of 14 years. Twenty-one years after a gun violence peaked in 1993, and a decade after the assault-weapon ban ended, homicides by firearms hit a historic low. By that time, the AR-15 had become the most popular rifle in the country. In 2004, there were 14,536 overall homicides in the United States. In 2019, the last year on record, there were 14,185. During that span, Americans bought north of 100 million new guns. That trend has only accelerated the past two years. Even in years gun homicides didn’t fall, the spikes had little to do with “assault weapons,” since the rifle is used in only fraction of gun crimes. And “assault weapons” had even less to do with gun violence when the ban was passed in the 1990s. Though there is no question mass shooters tend to gravitate towards AR-15s today, there is also no evidence that mass shooting themselves increased after the ban lifted, either.
Joe Biden’s Gun Lie | National Review
Biden is insinuating that once the Federal Assault Weapons Ban sunsetted in 2004, gun violence skyrocketed. It simply wasn’t so.
www.nationalreview.com
Biden's Lie #2- Closing the "Charleston Loophole" will prevent mass shootings like the one by Dylann Roof.
Yesterday, the National Shooting Sports Foundation obtained an email from Ashleigh Wilson, legislative director and counsel to House majority whip James Clyburn, urging congressional colleagues to co-sponsor to “The Enhanced Background Check Act.”
The bill, which will likely move forward without any debates, hearings, or mark-ups, is ostensibly meant to close the so-called “Charleston Loophole.”
Here is how Wilson describes it:
This is highly misleading. In 2015, the New York Times asserted that those “conducting the background check did not have access to that police report,” a framing that would soon dominate media coverage. In reality, local prosecutors had failed to respond to the FBI’s request for information about Dylann Roof’s case. It was a case of human error, or perhaps negligence, but that doesn’t make it a “loophole.” No ambiguity or inadequacy exists in the law simply because a mistake has undermined it. The FBI is empowered to retrieve a gun after it notices an error was made. If it fails to follow up, that’s a law-enforcement problem.
“This common-sense legislation extends the time allowed for the completion of a background check for firearm sales from three days to ten days, giving the FBI time to completely process each check,” Clyburn explains. (Of course, if it were “common-sense,” he wouldn’t need to tell us.) The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) processed more background checks this year than any year in history — and it wasn’t even close. The FBI doesn’t need ten days to run those checks, and it didn’t need ten days in 2015, either. Rather, it needed states and localities to enter criminal-possession charges into its system.
Democrats and Their Imaginary Gun ‘Loopholes’ | National Review
These are almost always euphemisms used by Democrats defending laws they wish existed but do not.
www.nationalreview.com
So it was law enforcement's failure to execute (which was also the case at Orlando Nightclub and Sutherland Springs, TX) and not some loophole.
Checkout this excerpt from Biden's speech after the Boulder shooting. Here he admits he really doesn't give a damn about details. He wants to ban "assault weapons" just because...
Joe Biden: (03:35)
And thirdly, I want to be very clear. This is the one thing I do know enough to say on in terms of what’s happened there. While we’re still waiting for more information regarding the shooter, his motive, the weapons he used, the gun, the magazines, the weapons, the modifications that apparently have taken place to those weapons that are involved here. I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps or save the lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act. We can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country, once again. I got that done when I was a Senator. It passed. It was a law for the longest time and it brought down these mass killings. We should do it again.
Joe Biden Speech on Boulder, Colorado Mass Shooting, Gun Violence Transcript March 23
President Joe Biden gave remarks about the Boulder, Colorado mass shooting on March 23, 2021. He discussed gun violence and said "we can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country, once again." Read the transcript of his speech here.
So what it all boils down to is this. According to Biden "you don't need" an AR with high capacity magazines, nor is it incumbent upon him, Rep. James Clyburn or any other lawmaker to justify it. Rather, it's up to you to justify it. That's their idea of representative government. Take, take, take and suppress dissenting opinion so long as they can get away with it without losing their job.
Take solace, however. Poll numbers are turning against gun control. More and more people see through the charade. It's a power grab at your 2nd Amendment rights. You should care even if you don't own a gun. Without the 2nd Amendment the other amendments collapse like a house of cards. Our forefathers had the foresight to include it in the Bill of Rights for good reason: first-hand experience dealing with tyranny. They put their @sses on the line. Time for you to man up, too.
Thank you.
