Biden’s gun crime prevention speech
was equal parts ludicrous and scary
American Thinker,
by
Andrea Widburg
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
6/24/2021 3:07:29 AM
With murder rates skyrocketing in major American cities, Joe Biden announced his “gun crime prevention strategy.” Because Democrats are opposed to punishments for crime, Biden was reduced to maligning the Second Amendment. Thankfully, he lacks the authority to grab our guns, but he managed a few chilling statements. (snip) His problem is that the cities with the worst violent crime already have gun-grabbing laws.
Biden fell back on the old Chicago standby, saying that the illegal guns used to commit crimes in Democrat cities are smuggled in from states with lax gun laws (snip) What Biden failed to explain is why those gun-supplying states don’t also have out-of-control gun crime.
Joey is like Charlie McCarthy with dementia.
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I don't see any wording in the Second Amendment that limits what type of weapon one can own. Regardless, I doubt that anyone was really interested in buying a cannon in 1791. I doubt that anyone is really interested in buying a 105 mm howitzer today.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rama41 6/24/2021 5:39:51 AM (No. 824854)
Ludicrous and scary is right. Watch now as the FBI repeats the Fast and Furious travesty by setting up legitimate gun dealers. On another subject, I'll bet whoever wrote that ridiculously long speech for him gets taken to the woodshed. He so incoherent it appears that the more he talks the less he says.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 6/24/2021 6:01:11 AM (No. 824857)
"...strike forces..." ???? Why do I picture the Capitol insurrectionists™ trapped in some jail without bail?
This fool wants to make an example of legal firearms owners, and will, somehow.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
jalo1951 6/24/2021 7:11:37 AM (No. 824879)
I want the racial breakdown of the perpetrators and the victims. I want to know if the perpetrators have a criminal record and have they been recently released on "no bail". I want to know the % increase of all crime in large cities and who runs city hall and I want to know if defund the police was their rallying cry. These statistics will explain a lot of what we need to know. What most of us already know. This administration is headed by a demented moron and the puppet masters aren't any smarter than he is.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
homefry 6/24/2021 7:15:01 AM (No. 824880)
We dont need gun control, we need dim-0 control.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hazymac 6/24/2021 7:48:19 AM (No. 824902)
Several years ago a half dozen armed robbers with a stolen truck and two backup cars ran the truck into the entrance of a well stocked gun store in Micanopy, Florida. The robbers, all armed, piled out of their vehicles and went to work on the proprietor, who was by himself. The bad guys, predictably, took whatever cover they could (requiring more shots to dislodge them, naturally), and a terrible gun battle ensued, the proprietor going from loaded gun to loaded gun while the robbers tried to kill him. When it was all over, the robbers were either dead or had run away. The gun shop owner survived the gun fight. The police later counted 104 empty cartridge casings (9mm and 5.56 NATO) where the defender had stood. Under the exigent circumstances, he needed every round to defeat the robbers, who had hoped to leave with a hundred stolen guns. If he had been hamstrung by Xiden's insane gun control regulations, he's have run out of ammo and the bad guys would have killed him.
So the idea of limiting magazine capacity makes criminals safer when they commit crimes against you. The Democrats are utterly insane when it comes to self defense. They don't believe in you having any. Just one reason among many to get rid of Democrats before they expunge all our rights.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/24/2021 8:09:21 AM (No. 824920)
None of the democrat gun control proposals make sense because they are not logical, not to mention illegal. If somebody walks into a school with an AR-15 and a couple of thirty-round magazines or if he has six ten-round magazines, or if he has multiple 9mm handguns, he's going to fire the same number of rounds. Who is going to stop him during the two seconds it takes to reload? The students will be helpless and law enforcement will likely be hiding behind their cars outside.
Taking lunatics off the street and locking them up before they can go on a rampage is the only answer, along with locking, reinforcing and controlling the doors. A brilliant move would be turn all of our now-empty prisons into schools. Why is it that in some states where millions of sane gun owners own AR-15s, there are few to no murders?
The most important point is, once we allow them to take our weapons, communism, dictatorship and total control of the people is right around the corner.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/24/2021 8:54:59 AM (No. 824953)
As John Lott put it with great brevity…
More guns, less crime.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mean Gene 6/24/2021 8:55:40 AM (No. 824957)
Over 100 million Americans own guns but there are only 2 million people in the military.
And, how many of those 2 million would carry out combat against their fellow Americans?
Where does a dictator drop a bomb so that Americans surrender all power to him?
If patriots ever decided to go up against someone seeking dictatorial power, it only takes ONE bullet to do the job, not bombs, not tanks, not jets.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/24/2021 9:02:07 AM (No. 824968)
Biden is not scary he's just recklessly stupid. Lacking the authority to grab our guns is not what is stopping him from doing so but he is still coherent enough to realize what the results would be. The 2nd Amendment defends itself.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 6/24/2021 9:07:50 AM (No. 824974)
At some point in WW11 the Japanese, famously, began to worry about problem of millions of armed Americans.
Think thrice before poking the big dog with that short stick.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/24/2021 9:16:57 AM (No. 824982)
The true reasons for the increase in violent crimes are self-evident and indisputable, and have absolutely nothing to do with gun control. For the last year at least, the Democrats purposely unleashed a wave of violence, initially to help remove President Trump from office. They openly allowed burning, looting, assaults, and murder. If any perpetrators were arrested, they were released without charges. Instead of going after the criminals, they went after the police or ordinary citizens who dared to defend themselves.
Furthermore, they capitulated to the race hustlers and rewrote the laws regarding bail and what even constituted a crime so that repeat robbers and perpetrators of violent assaults were simply recycled back into our communities. Violent illegal aliens were welcomed and distributed into our communities. And in some states and cities, literally thousands of already incarcerated violent criminals were simply released back into our communities.
Who the hell can't see THAT as the real reasons for the increase in violence? Why the absurd, contorted, and endless fake reasons being offered? Enough!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/24/2021 9:54:47 AM (No. 825035)
I was talking tp sever al friends the other night, and repeated what I’ve been saying for the past year: it’s going to come down to us and our guns.
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Translator please, is he speaking English? Obviously now having trouble even reading those big words on teleprompter.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/24/2021 10:17:16 AM (No. 825060)
Can WE say... Waterloo?... is this biden's fight with his citizens... Napolean thought he was invincible...and history tells US he believed his own press releases....well chiseled in stone... only kidding...it's a sad commentary when so/called leaders believe their own song and dance...and biden believes his 50 year DC job will save him... and to all you pollsters who tell the lefties what they want to hear... remember 2016?... and try and get 2024 right...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
moebellini3 6/24/2021 10:18:47 AM (No. 825061)
Face it, a democrat is a brain dead, indoctrinated communist who hates our country and our freedom. This moron Biden's mental capacity is getting worse by the day. The man is totally incoherent. And during his mumbling, rambling speech he never addressed the real problems with crime. He never talked about getting tougher on the thugs running wild in our streets. He never talked about severe penalties for carrying illegal guns. He never talked about democrats releasing violent criminals back onto the streets and he never addressed the problem with blacks attacking Asians. And again, like every sick marxist democrat he blames the law abiding citizen, the gun dealers, with the problem. What they are doing to this great country is appalling. Got it..
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Hazymac 6/24/2021 10:20:17 AM (No. 825062)
Home invasions and armed robberies of retail businesses involving multiple attackers happen every day, somewhere. In certain crime ridden dystopias and gang controlled areas, such attacks are increasingly commonplace. The prevalence of gangs is just fodder for that fire. Criminals frequently work in concert. Hearing on the local news about some unfortunate family or individual's being robbed (or worse) by two or more armed attackers is not so rare anymore. Neighbors are alert. Faced with multiple armed attackers, a defender needs all the ammo he can get, immediately.
The FBI suffered its bloodiest day on 11 April 1986 when eight agents shot it out with two very heavily armed (and militarily trained: one was a Ranger) bank and armored car robbers. After over 140 rounds were fired in some four minutes, both robbers and two FBI agents were dead, three horribly wounded, and the rest, save one, wounded. That one terrible incident led to a complete overhaul of agency handgun (and all other firearms) policy, which within four years led past the 10mm--too much recoil--to the production of the .40 Smith & Wesson cartridge with more muzzle energy than the 9mms and .38 Specials that in their 1986 versions had not incapacitated the robbers quickly enough. In an interview with the surviving agents the question was posed: "How much ammunition should you carry?" Invariable answer: "As much as you can." There are two ways you can carry more ammo: larger capacity in your pistol and greater capacity magazines. Now this should go without saying, but if have a permit and a handgun, you're safer carrying, say, a Glock 19 than a Glock 43, both 9mm. Why? The 43 carries six in the magazine; the 19 carries fifteen (in Free States).
In almost every case, it's civilians, not police, who are the targets of opportunistic armed criminals, sometimes operating in packs. In the course of tracking down and apprehending violent criminals the police utilize better firepower than they had available in 1986. However, the bad guys also have better weaponry, and they attack ordinary civilians who have the same constitutional and God-given right as the police to defend themselves. We should have pretty much what the police have to defend ourselves. People I know who train police and civilians in armed self defense say that the best house weapon for most citizens is the AR-15 in 5.56 NATO or .223 Remington. Loud, but barely any kick, and in an emergency can be deployed by anyone in the family.
There are over 20,000,000 AR platform rifles in the country, about as common use as a firearm could be, and very few are used by criminals, who prefer handguns. You can't conceal an AR or an AK. There are signs that in some places the S is HTF (If you know what I mean), and law enforcement is stretched thin. If the situation on the ground gets worse and more criminals are running around loose, the family rifle might be necessary. Only totalitarians would take that away.
Control the criminals, dammit. Not the guns.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
RayLRiv 6/24/2021 10:52:02 AM (No. 825092)
Love that comparison ColonialAmerican1623!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Analyn 6/24/2021 11:18:56 AM (No. 825138)
More Guns - More Ammo - Less Government
For the Win
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
cor-vet 6/24/2021 11:45:19 AM (No. 825161)
Talking to my neighbor, who just happens to own a gun store, and his statement, "If the government
(ie: demented Joe) and the democrats would stop talking gun control, the record sale of guns and ammo would go way down. Every time they open their mouths, guns sales and ammo shortages follow. It almost make you think gun manufacturers and ammo manufacturers vote democratic.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 6/24/2021 2:56:19 PM (No. 825353)
Actually, private militias often had cannon, if they had a wealthy enough sponsor. There was always an assumption that "arms" meant anything. Not limited to handguns, etc.
And a substantial number of private ships were fitted out as warships in the 1700s and 1800s and raided as privateers, no government funding....sort of seaborne militias. Since this was generally called piracy, and since the actions were generally outside of national waters, the smart ones had 'letters of marque' which authorized them to raid and capture ships on behalf of a particular government. But of course....always subject to a "discussion" with another government's ships, often with cannon, too.
But as far as buying cannon....it was perfectly legal back in the day. Don't try to own a mortar or artillery piece today. The government makes it almost impossible to do, and it is frighteningly expensive, too. But I am aware of one person, no deceased, who used to own a fully armed jet aircraft and do strafing for fun on his desert property. I always wondered how long the paperwork took. He did create a company to make legal machine guns, so that may have been the basis for the aircraft and guns legality.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jacksin5 6/24/2021 4:13:16 PM (No. 825407)
Re #22, For 50k one can purchase a working replica of the Gatling Gun. As it is actuated by turning a hand crank, it is not subject to Federal Laws concerning the ownership of automatic weapons. And it sure looks pretty with all that brass.
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