Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

[Blues Man]

Buy one before you can't.....

That’s what they told me.
Just before Obama was elected.

Democrats are the world's best gun salesmen

Nothing scares gun pussies like a dem.

Democrats are the single best thing to happen to gun sales.

If you really want less guns in the country you shouldn't vote democrat

 

[Brain357]

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

1. Any rifle capable of using high capacity magazines.
2. Lots of legal gun ownership guarantees lots of criminals with guns. Hundreds of thousands are stolen each year and right into criminal hands. You are arming criminals.
3. Mass shootings are real. Your fear of being without lots of big guns is the problem.

 

[Brain357]

Buy one before you can't.....

That’s what they told me.
Just before Obama was elected.

Democrats are the world's best gun salesmen

Nothing scares gun pussies like a dem.

Democrats are the single best thing to happen to gun sales.

If you really want less guns in the country you shouldn't vote democrat

Gun owners are easily scared.

 

[Flash]

Why should the government take away this man's right to keep and bear arms?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

This fails as a strawman fallacy.

What Biden "pledges" is irrelevant, only Congress can enact firearm regulatory measures, and that's not going to happen.

More lies and demogogery from the right.

 

[Rambunctious]

Buy one before you can't.....

That’s what they told me.
Just before Obama was elected.

Democrats are the world's best gun salesmen

Nothing scares gun pussies like a dem.

Democrats are the single best thing to happen to gun sales.

If you really want less guns in the country you shouldn't vote democrat

And its not what they do that moves gun sales upward...its what they say they will do but never do...elected dems are all talk and bluster for donations and votes...but they never do anything that doesn't make them more powerful and wealthy....

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

No EO will ever do anything. It would be tied up in the courts forever and most likely get overturned. This is little more than a president playing to an audience.

And conservatives lying and fear-mongering.

 

[Auld Phart]

Let’s hope he’s successful.

Yeah it'll make you feel good.

But the so called assault weapons ban was irrelevant and did nothing to reduce crime.

That's why it wasn't reupped when it expired

Funny how those same weapons were used in our worst mass shootings.

Funny how those same weapons were used in our worst mass shootings.

How many times were they used in, say, the last 40 years?

 

[Blues Man]

Buy one before you can't.....

That’s what they told me.
Just before Obama was elected.

Democrats are the world's best gun salesmen

Nothing scares gun pussies like a dem.

Democrats are the single best thing to happen to gun sales.

If you really want less guns in the country you shouldn't vote democrat

Gun owners are easily scared.

It's not fear.

Democrats aren't scary at all

 

[SassyIrishLass]

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

This fails as a strawman fallacy.

What Biden "pledges" is irrelevant, only Congress can enact firearm regulatory measures, and that's not going to happen.

More lies and demogogery from the right.

The Big Eared Queer bypassed Congress.... cripes you're an ill informed idiot

Here Are The 23 Executive Orders On Gun Safety Signed Today By The President

President Barack Obama signs a series of executive orders about the administration's new gun law proposals as children who wrote letters to the White House about gun violence, (L-R) Hinna Zeejah, Taejah Goode, Julia Stokes and Grant Fritz, look on. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)...

www.forbes.com

 

[Auld Phart]

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

1. Any rifle capable of using high capacity magazines.
2. Lots of legal gun ownership guarantees lots of criminals with guns. Hundreds of thousands are stolen each year and right into criminal hands. You are arming criminals.
3. Mass shootings are real. Your fear of being without lots of big guns is the problem.

1. Any rifle capable of using high capacity magazines.

Wrong

2. Lots of legal gun ownership guarantees lots of criminals with guns. Hundreds of thousands are stolen each year and right into criminal hands. You are arming criminals.

No, criminals are arming criminals.
they need to jail those caught trying to make straw purchases.

3. Mass shootings are real. Your fear of being without lots of big guns is the problem.

no, my fear is being unarmed in case of a mass shooting.

 

[Auld Phart]

Buy one before you can't.....

That’s what they told me.
Just before Obama was elected.

Democrats are the world's best gun salesmen

Nothing scares gun pussies like a dem.

Democrats are the single best thing to happen to gun sales.

If you really want less guns in the country you shouldn't vote democrat

Gun owners are easily scared.

If they were, there would be a lot more deaths by firearm.

 

[Blues Man]

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

1. Any rifle capable of using high capacity magazines.
2. Lots of legal gun ownership guarantees lots of criminals with guns. Hundreds of thousands are stolen each year and right into criminal hands. You are arming criminals.
3. Mass shootings are real. Your fear of being without lots of big guns is the problem.

Your fear of mass shooting is irrational.

less than 1% of all murders occur in mass shootings.

And if you actually do the math you'll see that you have virtually no chance of being murdered by a person with a gun.

in 2017 14,542 people were murdered by a person with a gun. That's .0043% of the population.

So in any given year you have a 99.9957% chance of not being murdered by a person with a gun.

Why are you so afraid of guns?

 

[night_son]

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

1. My neighbor, who is off work working on his truck in his driveway next door, was walking around this morning with a tire iron gripped tightly in one hand. According to my state's legal definition of assault and battery, that tire iron could certainly be deemed an "assault" weapon, if he used it to crack someone's skull, or even tapped them with it in their noggin.

The same could be said about a knife, an axe, a sledgehammer or even a rake. All of them could be classified as assault weapons under specific circumstances.

For political purposes certain lawmakers and cable news talking heads would have Americans believe assaults, defined by local, state and federal legalese, can only be carried out by high capacity "black" rifles such as the AR-15 and AK-47. But some nutty person eating at Denny's could easily "assault" another patron with their spork and do plenty of physical damage.

From a military perspective an assault operation can mean a coordinated attack on some form of enemy target, be it a bunker, machine gun position, AAA battery, base or whatever. In such a case, in the course of carrying out such an operation, what democrats love to define as an "assault" weapon or rifle is sure as hell not gonna be enough weapon on its own to carry out the assault. In addition to whatever battle rifle or carbine or submachine gun troops involved in the assault Op are packing, in order to pull it off they will need some kind of air support, ground support in the form of mortars or artillery, armored vehicles waiting in reserve, perhaps—but definitely squad machine guns, under barrel grenade launchers, NODS (night vision), smoke grenades, frag grenades, flash bangs and all kinds of other stuff not related to the infamous "black rifles" democrats so despise.

Seems to me the reason parliamentarians and other politicians around the world despise civilian version black rifles capable of accepting high capacity magazines is they fear some average Joe could storm their chambers and gun half of them down before the first one shot is dead on the floor. Frankly, that is exactly the reason black rifles/"assault" rifles should never be outlawed. In many ways they are the perfect collateral for government not abusing its citizens.


2. Law abiding gun owners should never give up their firearms. Neither should good people who don't abide every gun law to come down the pike. The sheer number of constraints put on our American Second Amendment right to keep and bear are ridiculous and often almost fully neutralize that right or restrict it to the point of it becoming nearly useless. Taxes on certain kinds of weapons or parts of weapons are also anti-American/2nd Amendment, as are waiting periods and background checks.

If a criminal or mentally unstable nutcase wants to get a gun then they will get a gun. They will steal a firearm from someone they know, get someone to buy one for them, get one from a gun show or purchase it on the street. Which is the perfect argument for good, law-abiding citizens owning high capacity, military style firearms—so that when in the event a mass shooting begins to unfold around them they can neutralize the shooter and save lives, their own and their family's included.

Same goes for home invasions. If one or more bad guy invades a law-abiding American's home, said lawful individual had better be packing some easily accessible, high capacity heat or their families could be killed, wives and daughters raped, etc.

Surrendering our ability to defend ourselves and our families and to provide game as sustenance for our families is the most important individual right imaginable.

3. Some fear what they don't understand. Others are terrified of gun culture because they only see stereotypes of rednecks dumping hundred round drums out of "assault" rifles on You Tube. More than any other reason their fear of black rifles is directly based on cable news propaganda. At heart they want armed men to defend them, both overseas from foreign enemies and at home, from criminals. But their propaganda programming forbids them from making the connection between good person and responsible gun owner. They need to be educated and shown that owning a gun is as natural as our distant ancestors carving spears and blackening their tips in cooking fires as defense against ancient predators.

Speaking to democrat/leftist politicians, the answer is obvious—why they fear civilians/citizens armed with black rifles. Citizens so armed and banded together in even small groups cannot easily be rounded up and dropped in a gulag, nor can their terrorist arm, BLM/Antifa, so easily terrify well armed citizens. But deep inside, as I mentioned above, I believe leftist politicians and all other politicians for that matter, fear black rifles in citizens' hands because of what even a lone citizen could do to them with it after they publicly act against a citizen's well being. And that is exactly how it should be . . . government fearing its citizens.

 

[Concerned American]

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

1. Pretty much any object that you make an assault with.
2. They should not. They also should not be forced to wear a mask if they're not sick, but that's for another topic.
3. The democrats fear that they will not be able to enact their agenda as long as there is an armed populace standing in opposition.

 

[jc456]

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

Why not? Democrats didn't care about the laws in the impeach hearing, why stop now? Never mind it'll have NO effect on crime.

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

An automatic rifle banned in the 1920s that if you squeeze the trigger, it fires a high speed spray of bullets until empty.

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

They shouldn't. The law provides for owning them for self-defense and sport, and if you ban them, crime will only go up.

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Because liberals are frightened little children brainwashed by the media to fear their own shadow.

Correct, done already with no drop in crime. He headed it too. The fk has been a failure his entire political career

 

[jc456]

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

1. Pretty much any object that you make an assault with.
2. They should not. They also should not be forced to wear a mask if they're not sick, but that's for another topic.
3. The democrats fear that they will not be able to enact their agenda as long as there is an armed populace standing in opposition.

The left live dominance

 

[2aguy]

Let’s hope he’s successful.

Yeah it'll make you feel good.

But the so called assault weapons ban was irrelevant and did nothing to reduce crime.

That's why it wasn't reupped when it expired

Funny how those same weapons were used in our worst mass shootings.

Sandy Hook...

28 killed...

Las Vegas....firing into an unsuspecting crowd of over 22,000 people from a concealed position......killed 61.

Meanwhile, in France, a muslim terrorist used a truck to kill 86....


You mean 2 pistols.....

Luby's cafe....24 killed, 2 pistols

Virginia Tech, 32 killed, 2 pistols...

Russia......Kerch shooting...

21 killed with a pump action shotgun.....100 yards from the police station.

Weapon type doesn't matter.......unarmed victims and target location...gun free zones matter....

 

[Concerned American]

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

1. My neighbor, who is off work working on his truck in his driveway next door, was walking around this morning with a tire iron gripped tightly in one hand. According to my state's legal definition of assault and battery, that tire iron could certainly be deemed an "assault" weapon, if he used it to crack someone's skull, or even tapped them with it in their noggin.

The same could be said about a knife, an axe, a sledgehammer or even a rake. All of them could be classified as assault weapons under specific circumstances.

For political purposes certain lawmakers and cable news talking heads would have Americans believe assaults, defined by local, state and federal legalese, can only be carried out by high capacity "black" rifles such as the AR-15 and AK-47. But some nutty person eating at Denny's could easily "assault" another patron with their spork and do plenty of physical damage.

From a military perspective an assault operation can mean a coordinated attack on some form of enemy target, be it a bunker, machine gun position, AAA battery, base or whatever. In such a case, in the course of carrying out such an operation, what democrats love to define as an "assault" weapon or rifle is sure as hell not gonna be enough weapon on its own to carry out the assault. In addition to whatever battle rifle or carbine or submachine gun troops involved in the assault Op are packing, in order to pull it off they will need some kind of air support, ground support in the form of mortars or artillery, armored vehicles waiting in reserve, perhaps—but definitely squad machine guns, under barrel grenade launchers, NODS (night vision), smoke grenades, frag grenades, flash bangs and all kinds of other stuff not related to the infamous "black rifles" democrats so despise.

Seems to me the reason parliamentarians and other politicians around the world despise civilian version black rifles capable of accepting high capacity magazines is they fear some average Joe could storm their chambers and gun half of them down before the first one shot is dead on the floor. Frankly, that is exactly the reason black rifles/"assault" rifles should never be outlawed. In many ways they are the perfect collateral for government not abusing its citizens.


2. Law abiding gun owners should never give up their firearms. Neither should good people who don't abide every gun law to come down the pike. The sheer number of constraints put on our American Second Amendment right to keep and bear are ridiculous and often almost fully neutralize that right or restrict it to the point of it becoming nearly useless. Taxes on certain kinds of weapons or parts of weapons are also anti-American/2nd Amendment, as are waiting periods and background checks.

If a criminal or mentally unstable nutcase wants to get a gun then they will get a gun. They will steal a firearm from someone they know, get someone to buy one for them, get one from a gun show or purchase it on the street. Which is the perfect argument for good, law-abiding citizens owning high capacity, military style firearms—so that when in the event a mass shooting begins to unfold around them they can neutralize the shooter and save lives, their own and their family's included.

Same goes for home invasions. If one or more bad guy invades a law-abiding American's home, said lawful individual had better be packing some easily accessible, high capacity heat or their families could be killed, wives and daughters raped, etc.

Surrendering our ability to defend ourselves and our families and to provide game as sustenance for our families is the most important individual right imaginable.

3. Some fear what they don't understand. Others are terrified of gun culture because they only see stereotypes of rednecks dumping hundred round drums out of "assault" rifles on You Tube. More than any other reason their fear of black rifles is directly based on cable news propaganda. At heart they want armed men to defend them, both overseas from foreign enemies and at home, from criminals. But their propaganda programming forbids them from making the connection between good person and responsible gun owner. They need to be educated and shown that owning a gun is as natural as our distant ancestors carving spears and blackening their tips in cooking fires as defense against ancient predators.

Speaking to democrat/leftist politicians, the answer is obvious—why they fear civilians/citizens armed with black rifles. Citizens so armed and banded together in even small groups cannot easily be rounded up and dropped in a gulag, nor can their terrorist arm, BLM/Antifa, so easily terrify well armed citizens. But deep inside, as I mentioned above, I believe leftist politicians and all other politicians for that matter, fear black rifles in citizens' hands because of what even a lone citizen could do to them with it after they publicly act against a citizen's well being. And that is exactly how it should be . . . government fearing its citizens.

Agreed, but what is it about "black" weapons--does that mean I can wield my stainless steel mini 14 with impunity?

 

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White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.

The White House says President Biden is “personally committed” to action on an issue he has tackled many times in the past. Less than a month into the new administration, Biden officials are meeting with advocates backing reforms that Democrats have been pushing for in Congress, like strengthening background checks.

However, Americans' views on guns may be even more divided than the last time Biden confronted the issue. A November Gallup poll found support for stricter gun laws is at its lowest level since 2016.

But anti-gun violence groups still see momentum. Brady, Giffords, Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action met virtually on Wednesday with Susan Rice, the head of the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, a senior adviser to the president.

Officials familiar with the meeting said Rice and Richmond signaled the White House was prepared to use multiple avenues to try to curb gun violence, including executive action, though the administration has yet to roll out any specific proposals.

“I think everything is on the table. I think the White House is certainly supportive of Congress doing their part. I think there are things we’d like to see happen through legislation. ... But certainly there is a role for executive action,” said Adzi Vokhiwa, director of federal affairs at Giffords, an anti-gun violence advocacy group.

Biden pledges action on guns amid resistance

White House officials met last week with several gun violence prevention groups as they weigh how to move forward on an issue that has stymied Democrats for years.The White House says Presiden…

thehill.com

Biden making noise again about gun control...So, the argument redux is again on the table...

I have three questions, and would like people to respond without the normal talking pont answers, and bumper sticker slogans....

1. What is an "assault weapon"?

2. Why should law abiding citizens give up their weapons if they are breaking no laws with them?

3. Why are liberals so frightened by a tool owned by someone else legally?

Ok, let's have at it....

The way Democrats have been acting since the Georgia Run-off nobody in their right mind is going to give up their guns willingly.
They've been acting like a bunch of Nazis.
It used to be we would just yell at anyone who started spouting their lib talking-points.
Now most of us want to kick their teeth in.
It's no small wonder the Dems put walls around the Capital.

Speaking of Georgia voters, suckers!