In what may need been his final main grandstanding occasion regarding gun management, President Joe Biden on December 14 used the twelfth anniversary of the horrible mass homicide at Sandy Hook Excessive Faculty in Connecticut to brag about his few anti-gun accomplishments and name for extra restrictive firearms legal guidelines.
“With the power of this emboldened motion by our aspect, we now have made historic progress to cut back gun violence over the previous 4 years,” Biden stated on the press convention, the place he outlined what he referred to as the administration’s “accomplishments.”
Amongst these, after all, was the creation of the primary White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention, a farce of a federal workplace whose title is even primarily based on a core fallacy that when criminals used lawfully produced, legally bought firearms for unlawful means, what outcomes is “gun violence,” not prison violence. That enables Biden and different soft-on-crime Democrats to proceed to coddle criminals whereas blaming the gun and lawful gun house owners for the nation’s prison violence issues.
It’s probably—and we are able to actually all hope—that the White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention isn’t lengthy for this world with President Donald Trump transferring again into the White Home. Many observers speculate that one in every of President Trump’s first actions could be to instantly shut the workplace.
Different Biden “accomplishments,” particularly the a number of government orders he put into place regarding the whole lot from redefining what was a “firearm” to altering the definition of who’s “engaged within the enterprise” of promoting firearms, are additionally probably on the way in which out quickly. Not solely have a number of of these actions already been discovered to be unconstitutional, however President Trump can undo them simply as quick as Biden executed them.
That leaves what Biden considers his one crowning accomplishment regarding gun management—passage of the so-called Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA)—which some turncoat Republicans supported and allowed to grow to be legislation. Since then, the Justice Division has labored to place some ill-thought-out provisions of that legislation into impact, within the course of making nobody safer however life extra inconvenient for lawful gun house owners.
With Republicans retaining management of the U.S. Home of Representatives and gaining management of the U.S. Senate in final month’s elections, that legislation may additionally be on the way in which out. In actual fact, if pro-gun teams get their means, Congress subsequent 12 months won’t solely be working to eliminate a few of America’s restrictive gun legal guidelines but additionally put extra legal guidelines into place that shield the Second Modification rights of gun house owners.
Not solely does Biden not appear to be conscious that his legacy of gun management as president is sort of nonexistent—due to pro-gun teams and gun house owners across the nation—however he additionally doesn’t appear to know that a lot of the “accomplishments” he did make will quickly be relegated to the dustbin of historical past.
With that in thoughts, he made another plea for Congress to “do one thing,” whilst his personal get together put forth such a foul candidate for president that the Democrats managed to lose the Senate, too.
“Congress has an obligation to ‘do one thing’ as a way to shield our youngsters and communities from this scourge of gun violence,” the president stated.
To that, we are able to solely reply with what we’re all trying ahead to saying on January 20 of subsequent 12 months: “Don’t let the door hit you within the ass.”
