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Biden’s Gun-Control Misdirection
National Review ^ | 24 jan2023

Posted on 01/25/2023 9:50:15 AM PST by rellimpank

In response to the news that there had been two mass shootings in the state of California in the space of only 48 hours, President Joe Biden did Tuesday morning what he often does when faced with a complex societal problem: He talked confidently about something else. In a hastily released statement on the topic, Biden urged “both chambers of Congress to act quickly” and send an “Assault Weapons Ban to my desk.” Tragedy, meet non sequitur.

The notion that the ambitions of nihilist mass murderers are likely to be meaningfully constrained by arbitrary limitations on the way that certain legally available firearms look is fanciful and unsubstantiated at the best of times. Here, though, the claim does not even intersect with the incidents on which Biden has predicated his call. California already has all of the gun-control laws that the Democrats wish to add federally — including a strict ban on so-called “assault weapons” — and those laws made no difference whatsoever. And how could they have, given that in neither case did the gunman use one of the commonly owned rifles that Biden’s coveted “assault weapons” bans typically target; instead, they used a couple of standard semi-automatic handguns

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: assaultweapons; banglist; biden; guncontrol; guns; rkba
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1 posted on 01/25/2023 9:50:15 AM PST by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

“Misdirection”? Whenever the media starts a word off with “mis-XXXX” it’s a dead giveaway they’re lying.


2 posted on 01/25/2023 9:57:50 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: rellimpank

“Assault pistols bad. Abrams tanks to Ukes good.”

Bring on Nuke war. Thanks Brandon.


3 posted on 01/25/2023 10:06:51 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: rellimpank

If LBJ only implemented gun control in Vietnam, the Communists would have lost.

And if Biden enforced gun control in Afghanistan, women would still be free there. And nobody would have fallen out of an aircraft.


4 posted on 01/25/2023 11:01:04 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: rellimpank

Read how effective gun control is:

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/drug-gang-kills-20-in-town-hall-massacre-in-southern-mexico

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/5-killed-bar-shooting-mexican-resort-acapulco-94516747

https://samchui.com/2023/01/07/passengers-shelter-on-aeromexico-plane-during-shooting-in-mexico/


5 posted on 01/25/2023 11:05:04 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: FlyingEagle

“Bring on Nuke war. Thanks Brandon.”

Things under the asphalt in DC roads might explode occasionally.


6 posted on 01/25/2023 11:08:05 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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