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A make-believe President Andrew Sheppard (actor Michael Douglas) interrupted a press conference in the movie An American President filmed in 1995 and said, “You cannot address crime prevention without getting rid of assault weapons and handguns. I consider them a threat to national security, and I will go door to door if I have to, but I’m gonna convince Americans that I’m right, and I’m gonna get the guns.”
“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” shrieked Beto O’Rourke to roaring applause from a crowd at Texas Southern University during a Democratic Debate for a want-to-be President in 2015. “We’re not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore.”
Yesterday, our real president, though some would argue in title only, Joe Biden told us that he wants to rein in the use of untraceable firearms known as ghost guns that turn up frequently at crime scenes. This attempt targets privately made firearms that can be assembled from purchased do-it-yourself kits. The weapons lack serial numbers, which makes it difficult to trace the owner.
Commercial manufacturers of the kits will have to be licensed and must add serial numbers on the kits’ frame or receiver. Commercial sellers of the kits will have to become licensed and will be required to run background checks on potential buyers. It makes some sense as conventional retailers must do the same. It just won’t stop anyone who wants a gun to find a way to get one.
“These guns are weapons of choice for many criminals,” Biden said in a Rose Garden ceremony attended by victims and families of gun violence. “We are going to do everything we can to deprive them of that choice and, when we find them, put them in jail for a long, long time.” Sounds like we’re not as interested in defunding the police as we were pre election.
Biden called the not call to arms “basic common sense.” Except, it’s not. Or, at least it’s not enough.
Well, it makes as much sense as Twitter employees who worry that Elon Musk, now Twitter’s largest shareholder, may turn their free speech platform into a platform that actually allows free speech, but we digress.
All together now- guns don’t kill people. People kill people.
Adding serial numbers to parts will make illegal gun owners take a bit longer to file down the additional numbers to make them untraceable. Also, stolen guns are stolen guns regardless of who cleared a background check originally.
There are over 330 million guns in this country that we can count. It’s the second amendment right. If you don’t make another one, or file down another serial number, that’s enough for every man, woman, and child, regardless of their choice of pronouns, to pack heat.
Illinois and New York have the strictest gun control laws in the nation. Ask the residents of Chicago’s south side or the Bronx how much that helps.
Criminal behavior starts way before someone puts a gun in their hand. Once Veep Kamala figures out the root cause of illegal immigration maybe she can turn her attention to the root cause of criminal behavior.
Until then we can continue paying lip service to the problem as we do with China, Russia, inflation, debt, and the border.
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Take all the guns away from the law abiding public, so all the law breaking criminals with guns can shoot with impunity. Another great idea by Biden. Forget 40 year high inflation and gas prices skyrocketing. Let’s ban ghost guns. Thanks for tackling the pressing issues of the country. Do the stream of immigrants flooding the southern border need to turn over their ghost guns on the desk where they sign up for free health care, free school for the chitlins, and free plane ride to AnywhereUWant, USA?
Speaking of the mostly peaceful, mostly COVID-free illegal immigrants, the first busload paid for by Texas arrived in DC this AM. Hopefully, the bus stopped right on top of the BLM painted street.
Agree all day long. The root cause of this violence is not the ability to buy a kit and make a gun. Should regulation prevail on a reasonable scale? Yes and yes, but its about the erosion of prosecution that is allowing career criminals to form.
It’s high time that the left start taking responsibility for the lack of prosecution and lack of incarceration needed to stop the insanity. When resources are thin(no thanks to defund the police), the last thing you want to do is arrest the same person 9 times!
Multiple offenders are allowed to take a knee and rinse and repeat. It’s a fact. And most criminals wear it like a badge of honor. George Soros thought it best to fund the campaigns of people that would resist prosecution and send violent criminals to half way houses.
I just cant wait for the midterms!!
Well said. And, the midterms cannot get here soon enough. The question then becomes what do new members of Congress do about all of this. The cold reality of old DC often hits hard around inauguration time.
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