Yesterday, February 14, 2021, President Biden released a statement supporting his push for gun control. In typical gun-grabber fashion, he left out vitally important information and rather than offer a logical explanation as to the merits of his plans, he instead, as always, tugged at the heart strings of the reader/listener.
Please do not misunderstand me, or gun owners in general, we too would like to see fewer crimes committed using guns, and despite what the gun grabbers always say, no one wants to see more innocent children murdered. However, to claim that banning certain firearms will cure this is a bold faced lie, and they know it. If gun bans would fix it, they would be able to explain how, instead of posting sad stories of loss in order to fire up the emotions of those they hope will support the measure.
In the interest of honesty and full disclosure, I am going to fill in some of the blanks and correct some things that Biden intentionally, misleadingly included in his statement. The corrections are in bold, italics and underlined.
We Re-Wrote Biden’s Gun Control Message So It Contains the Truth Instead of Lies
Three years ago today, a lone gunman who should have been in jail at the time took the lives of 14 students and three educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In seconds, the lives of dozens of families, and the life of an American community, were changed forever. This whole incident could have been prevented had the school system not begged the Sheriff’s department to avoid arresting the subject, multiple times, for crimes he committed at the school, because doing so would have negatively impacted their federal funding. The suspect was able to legally pass the background checks I am demanding because he was never arrested and charged with the crimes the school covered up.
For three years now, the Parkland families have spent birthdays and holidays without their loved ones. They’ve missed out on the experience of sending their children off to college or seeing them on their first job after high school. Like far too many families, they’ve had to bury pieces of their soul deep within the Earth. Like far too many families — and, indeed, like our nation — they’ve been left to wonder whether things would ever be okay. The answer to that question is No. Evil has always existed and always will. Evil cannot be legislated out of existence, but we can disarm you and your fellow Americans making more reliant on the government to protect you, something the government cannot do, if you would just let your emotions rule you and support what I am telling you to support.
These families are not alone. In big cities and small towns. In schools and shopping malls. In churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples. In movie theaters and concert halls. On city street corners that will never get a mention on the evening news. All across our nation, parents, spouses, children, siblings, and friends have known the pain of losing a loved one to gun violence. Yet even more people use a gun in self defense every year, but this is also ignored by the evening news as it does not fit their agenda. And in this season of so much loss, last year’s historic increase in homicides across America, which is the direct result of my party’s actions. Our relentless attack on law enforcement, including defunding them, combined with releasing tens of thousands of violent criminals onto the streets, has resulted in exactly what we wanted – higher violent crime rates. Of course including the gun violence disproportionately devastating Black and Brown individuals in our cities, committed by other Black and Brown individuals, has added to the number of empty seats at our kitchen tables. Today, as we mourn with the Parkland community, we mourn for all who have lost loved ones to gun violence.
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Over these three years, the Parkland families have taught all of us something profound. Time and again, they have showed us how we can turn our grief into purpose – to march, organize, and build a strong, inclusive, and durable movement for change. They have also taught us that so long as their voices echo the goals of liberal politicians, the news media and liberal politicians will make them out to be heroes, no matter how ignorant or misguided the stuff they say might be. Additionally, they have taught us that if your opinion differs from ours, like those of some of the other Parkland families who do not support gun control, not only will the media ignore them, but so will we.
The Parkland students and so many other young people across the country who have experienced gun violence are carrying forward the history of the American journey. It is a history written by young people in each generation who challenged prevailing dogma to demand a simple truth: we can do better. And we will.
This Administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer. Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons which are used in only a fraction of the crimes I call “gun violence,” yet are scary to people who know nothing about guns, and high-capacity magazines which will have no effect on any of the crimes I mentioned above, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets, because it only makes sense that we should be able to sue a company that produces and sells a legal product because the end user committed a crime while using that product. It only makes sense that suing someone who did nothing wrong will stop someone else, namely the criminals who illegally acquire a legal product and use it in commission of a crime. Duh.
I know none of this legislation I am pushing will have any effect on school shootings, like the one I am using as an example here. I know that because the worst school shooting at the time that it happened was Columbine. That incident happened during the height of the previous national Assault Weapon Ban that I helped enact. That incident proves that a federal ban cannot stop motivated killers from illegally acquiring weapons they want to commit their heinous crimes. Despite the proven inefficacy of those laws, we owe it to all those we’ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change based on emotions, not logic. The time to act is now while you are all emotional, and make poor decisions instead of thinking about the situation logically when you are calm.
There Joe, I fixed it for you!
* For those unaware of what a lie by omission is, read up.
