Posted on 06/02/2022 10:29:17 AM PDT by RandFan
President Biden will deliver a speech in prime time about the need for gun reform on Thursday evening, remarks that were hastily added to the White House schedule after another mass shooting grabbed headlines.
The White House said in updated guidance that Biden “will deliver remarks on the recent tragic mass shootings, and the need to pass commonsense laws to combat the epidemic of gun violence that is taking lives every day.”
Biden called for action on gun reform following mass shootings in recent weeks in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, but he’s largely left it up to Congress on what kind of measures to pursue. It’s unclear how much more specific Biden will get in the address Thursday evening, which is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. before he departs for a long weekend in Rehoboth Beach, Del.
Biden has kept distance from bipartisan negotiations about gun reform among senators, but he told reporters earlier this week that he would meet with lawmakers when the time is right.
Biden, who has long been a proponent of expanded background checks and an assault weapons ban, on Wednesday suggested he was realistic about the prospect of gun reform given the partisan divides in Washington. Republicans have long resisted measures to curtail firearms, and without GOP votes Democrats will not be able to pass such laws in the 50-50 Senate.
“I served in Congress for 36 years. I’m never confident, totally,” Biden told reporters at the end of an event on the baby formula shortage Wednesday, hours before officials briefed him on a mass shooting in Tulsa, Okla.
A gunman in Tulsa killed four people in a rampage at a medical building on Wednesday. It was the latest in a string of mass shootings in the U.S. that have revived a debate about gun control. Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last week. Biden spent Sunday meeting with families of victims in that shooting.
We don't need assault rifles. I used a musket to rid the pool of Corn Pop. FDR talked about it on TV.
Criminals and those with severe mental illness need to be controlled.
Oh, for a key to the teleprompter file. “We must keep these weapons of war out of the hands of people who should not own them. Look at me, for example. Would you trust me with a firearm? Come on, man!”
Buy your canons now!
Free ice cream for everybody!
“Primetime” is probably around 3:15. Joe is in the sack by 7..
Nobody will watch. He’s an idiot.
another 3 day weekend for sleepy joe.
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He’ll need it to come down from whatever they’ll be jacking him up with for tonight.
Biden gave the Afghans over 80 billion dollars worth of “weapons of war.” He also sent over 2 billion dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine in its bid to protect its border.
All the while, Biden is attempting to disarm Americans. He has exhibited nothing but utter contempt for us. Biden is the Manchurian President.
Take our guns and give them to ukraine and he is letting how many ukraine refugees into the USA.
When is he gonna talk about Hunter lying on his gun app, and the gun being thrown in the trash outside a school?
When is he gonna talk about the $84 billion of weapons and stuff he left for the Taliban?
So no guns for Biden
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Sloppy Joe will open his trap and mumble something or other about guns are very bad and make angry eyes at Americans hes been lying to for 40 something years.
Everybody knows or is beginning to realize Sloppy is a career liar whos coming to the end of the line.
And how many were killed in Chicago last night????
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