In Buffalo, Biden calls for gun control that’s already law and didn’t work
Yet again, suspect was "known to law enforcement."
by Lee Williams
Joe Biden brought his confusing anti-gun rhetoric to Buffalo, Tuesday — a city still grieving the loss of 10 good souls who were cut down Saturday by a hell-bound madman.
Even though most of the victims have yet to be buried, Biden didn’t hesitate to use the solemn occasion as an opportunity to advocate for more gun control, in this case another federal “assault weapon” ban.
“There are certain things we can do,” Biden told the grieving crowd. “We can keep assault weapons off of our streets. We did it before and violence went down.”
Even the FBI has acknowledged that the Federal Assault Weapons Ban that Biden referenced, which was a part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, did little to deter or prevent crime.
Besides, New York already has a stringent “assault weapon” ban, as well as every other anti-gun law Biden has ever called for. They’re codified into state law, yet none of them worked.
The mass murderer was not stopped by New York’s SAFE Act, which bans AR-15s and similar weapons. The state’s ban on standard-capacity magazines didn’t stop him, nor did the New York’s mandatory background check requirement or its Red Flag gun-confiscation law.
New York State Police were called to the gunman’s high school last June because he threatened to commit a mass shooting during the school’s graduation ceremonies. He was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital for an evaluation and was released after a day and a half. However, this did not trigger New York’s red-flag law, which should have stopped him from purchasing a firearm.
Rather than infringing upon the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens, Biden should focus on why yet another mass murderer was “known to law enforcement,” yet no action was taken before he began killing people.
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THEY tell U.S. "If you see something, say something."
Well, THEY knew this kid was unhinged and THEY did the same thing THEY did in Parkland, FL.
NOTHING!
It is getting hard not to believe that THEY want these shooting to happen. Just about everyone of these incidents has all kinds of "Red Flag" warnings and what gets done about it. NOTHING!
Everything you've written is correct, but everything has been said thousands of times before in similar situations. These issues of, laws written by egomaniacal politicians to make the uninformed *feel* good, while situationally aware law abiding citizens are increasingly disarmed and growing numbers of criminals of all stripes are allowed to prey on those who were promised government *protection* are killed in broad daylight, seems to be stuck in a never ending feedback loop.
I have struggled with how to adjust the messaging and discussion towards a solution. From my perspective, the stumbling block is the inability to have a rational argument of facts, with the irrational who believe in the utopian lies of those who spew the "if we only had better gun control laws" fallacies.
The question is, how does one convince the illogical, the irrational and the emotionally driven herd with rational logical truths?
I think our discussions need to be multifaceted, with facts for those who live in reality and some form of emotional connection for those who do not. As the whole "my subjective truth" crowd has been demonstrably effective at dominating every aspect of modern society, we need to figure out a way to harness that strategy to educate, enlighten and empower those who have been misguided for the last fifty plus years.