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The White House is creating an office to curb gun violence
American Thinker ^ | 21 Sep, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/21/2023 4:51:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Does anyone believe that it will not have gun control as its top agenda item?

In the leftist lexicon, preventing gun violence is code for “gun control.” That’s why we should all view with deep suspicion the report that the White House is creating an office that will focus on “preventing” gun violence. Since the White House’s policies all encourage gun violence, the only avenue left to the White House to “curb” this violence is to grab guns from law-abiding citizens.

If you read the article at The Hill, you see that, while it talks constantly about how the White House, congresscritters, and various groups dedicated to ending gun violence are excited about this office to end gun violence, the article is silent about anything concrete. It mentions failed initiatives to limit gun rights but says nothing else that might curb actual violence. Here are just a few excerpts that give you a sense of this thunderous silence:

The White House will announce this week that it is creating an office of gun violence prevention to focus on efforts to curb gun violence, two sources familiar confirmed to The Hill.

Gun violence prevention advocates and Democratic lawmakers have been pushing the White House to establish a designated office solely focused on gun violence.

SNIP

If I were trying to end gun violence, I would not make it more difficult for law-abiding people to have guns. Instead, I would (a) make it more difficult for criminals to commit crimes and (b) create a culture of values and respect for life that is antithetical to violence—kind of like America was before the 1960s, a time when gun ownership was common but random gun violence significantly lower.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: banglist

1 posted on 09/21/2023 4:51:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The increase in violence, including gun violence, pretty much matches the democRAT activity to destabilize society.


2 posted on 09/21/2023 4:52:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber; All

Another worthless, do-nothing department. You can’t “cure” gun violence. Reduce it by enforcing the law and putting bad guys in jail… or worse.


3 posted on 09/21/2023 4:54:38 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: MtnClimber

*checks my watch*
Hmmm...
It’s 2023.
Any gun control after the second and fourteenth amendments were ratified are illegal according to the Bruen decision last year.
Of course, this, “Office,” will consider that.
Right?

/sarc


4 posted on 09/21/2023 5:00:31 AM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: MtnClimber

Said office and its employees should be housed on the South side of Chicago and begin \there\ with any proposals for preventing gun violence.

If it works there, then expand it incrementally to other urban locations.


5 posted on 09/21/2023 5:03:09 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: MtnClimber

Maybe an idea: I heard that if remove the BLM crew from the homicide stats that the USA is safer than Sweden.

I question the veracity in the statement.


6 posted on 09/21/2023 5:12:34 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff )
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To: MtnClimber

the gun violence council will recommend the govt declare a public health emergency and ban guns a la grisham

you know cuz of the rising crime rate

that the LEFT has created

never let a crisis go to waste


7 posted on 09/21/2023 5:13:18 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MtnClimber

What aboutt knife violence? How about SUV violence?


8 posted on 09/21/2023 5:15:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: MtnClimber

“Curb gun violence”

That’s racist.


9 posted on 09/21/2023 5:17:38 AM PDT by Jim Noble (They don't think you know but I know that you do.ish )
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To: MtnClimber

The problem is:
It’s not OUR guns,
It’s YOUR sons.


10 posted on 09/21/2023 5:26:56 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

I LIKE WHAT YOU SAID - “Said office and its employees should be housed on the South side of Chicago and begin \there\ with any proposals for preventing gun violence.

If it works there, then expand it incrementally to other urban locations.”

ONE ADDITION, the ONLY security this office will get is what is provided by Chicago PD. NO SPECIAL GOVERNMENT PROVIDED SECURITY.


11 posted on 09/21/2023 5:32:23 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: MtnClimber

Will the people tasked with reducing gun violence carry guns? Will they wear snappy uniforms with brightly colored armbands?


12 posted on 09/21/2023 5:33:38 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Faux News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: MtnClimber

Putting Eric Holder in charge after his job of running guns to Mexican cartels?


13 posted on 09/21/2023 6:07:27 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

Step 1: Round up all conservatives and put them in a re-education camp.

Step 2: Abolish the Bill of Rights.

Step 3: Criminalize meat, automobiles, and private homes.


14 posted on 09/21/2023 6:16:05 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: joshua c

...that is my biggest fear....”we need to take your guns for the good of society”....or some such drivel...confiscation will be on this council’s agenda for sure..just give it some time.....


15 posted on 09/21/2023 6:20:08 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: OHPatriot

It can fill offices in the (to be built) Obama Library.


16 posted on 09/21/2023 6:32:10 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Cracker...)
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To: Taxman

ping


17 posted on 09/21/2023 6:40:49 AM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: MtnClimber

Cartels chuckle because he did such a great job at stopping drugs at the border.


18 posted on 09/21/2023 8:01:16 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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