Quote of the Day
It’s already saving lives. There are fewer deaths occurring,
Joe Biden
President Unite States of America
June 16, 2023
The US passed a landmark gun deal one year ago. Is it working?
Really? How does he know? The FBI crime numbers cannot be trusted.
And from the same article:
The event comes as available data suggests the U.S. is seeing a year-over-year decline in murders nationwide. At the same time, mass shootings appear to be accelerating.
And the numbers they do claim are very telling:
At least 31 people have been charged in 17 cases under new federal straw purchasing and trafficking criminal offenses, data from federal prosecutors through April shows.
31?!!! And strawman purchases were already illegal. Out of probably 15 to 20 million sales they charged 31 people under, what they claim, is a new law. And they think this is success?
Denials stemming from enhanced background checks for people under 21 blocked more than 130 firearm purchases between November and April, Peter Carr, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, previously told USA TODAY.
How many of those 130 blocked purchases resulted in an increase in public safety? And how many of those block purchases resulted in a decrease in public safety?
And at what cost?
It created a $750 million funding pot to incentivize states to create “red flag laws,” closed the “boyfriend loophole” by adding convicted domestic violence abusers in dating relationships to the national criminal background check system, clarified the definition of a “federally licensed firearm dealer,” made it a federal crime to traffic in firearms, stiffened penalties for “straw purchases” made on behalf of people who aren’t allowed to own guns and enhanced background checks for buyers under 21.
The law also appropriated billions in funding for schools and mental health services. That includes $150 million for a national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, $250 million for states and territories to enhance community mental health services, $500 million to increase the number of school-based mental health providers and $500 million to train school counselors, social workers and psychologists. It also set aside $250 million in funding for community-based violence prevention initiatives.
Billions were spent to prosecute 31 people and block sales to 130 people who, almost for certain, were not a threat to anyone.
And this is even with them playing their game by their rules instead of based on whether what they are doing is a violation of the Second Amendment, which it is.
They lie, they deceive, and they ignore the specific enumerated right to keep and bear arms.
I hope they enjoy their trials.
The enhanced checks for adults under 21 did one thing in my household. Annoyed both my boys enough to go get their carry permits to avoid having to wait weeks to pick up their firearm purchases.
And the business about Straw Purchasers!
I even question the reality of the claimed convictions of straw purchasers.
Wasn’t there a case about ten years ago of a man convicted for a straw purchase because he wanted the DISCOUNT another man could get if this other man bought the gun he could have bought at full price?
The laws are already so vague that busting the boxer Jack Johnson for a Mann Act violation by taking his girl friend across state lines to see Niagara Falls is strictly AMATEUR HOUR. The white woman he, a black man had the temerity to have as a paramour!
And there’s also the use of RICO laws against the anti-abortion activists.
Great thinking by lawyers, applying the vaguely worded parts of the statutes to new and different “crimes” is nothing new, we’re just attuned now to the Moscow Show Trial evils of Jack Smith and Merrick “Thank God he’s not on the Supreme Court” Garland.
Oh yes, horror of horrors! A police officer that was eligible for the Glock discount program said he would buy a gun for his uncle.
The uncle cut him a check. In the “for line” on the left-bottom of the check the uncle wrote; For Glock.
When the nephew officer handed over the Glock to his uncle he committed a straw purchase, with evidence.
Now for years the 4473 instructions made it perfectly clear one was allowed to purchase a weapon for raffles and gifts with no farther paperwork needed.
One could buy a firearm and walk out on the street and hand it to someone. Legally. Or drive down to the range, shoot it, decide you don’t like it and sale it to the stranger shooting next to you. All perfectly legal.
But since he used a check that said he was buying it for someone else. It was a straw purchase.
Like Joe said, You spent all that money for that? Why yes, they did. And they will do it again. Gladly.
“The law also appropriated billions in funding for schools and mental health services. That includes $150 million for a national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, $250 million for states and territories to enhance community mental health services, $500 million to increase the number of school-based mental health providers and $500 million to train school counselors, social workers and psychologists. It also set aside $250 million in funding for community-based violence prevention initiatives.”
And here we reach the cruxes of the matter. (On top of everything else you mentioned, Joe.) A big giveaway to the communist drone-thinks.
And if you can’t spend it where your suppose to? No big! Just funnel it on over to BLM-antifa-CRT-Clinton foundation-Obama- Nose picking favorite commie cause. Nobody is ever going to be asking for it back, or where it went.
“I hope they enjoy their trials.”
I WILL ENJOY THEIR EXECUTIONS.
Yes…they lie, they decieve and they ignore our Rights. But guess what… There will be no trials…for them. For us perhaps…maybe not, maybe just a trip in the boxcars. But there will be no trials for the criminals now in power.
The money wasted to prosecute these people isn’t important to the people doing the prosecuting. Because it’s NOT their money. It’s OURS. So they couldn’t give a red rats ass how much money they waste on persecuting people with their weaponized “legal” (sic) system.