Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and running mate Kamala Harris both advocated for strict new gun control measures during a remembrance for the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.
On Monday, the eighth anniversary of the attack, Biden released a statement in which he called gun violence a “national health crisis,” leading some to believe he may, as president, use that as a basis for new executive action on firearms.
“Some of these tragedies make national headlines, so many more do not. Every year, more than 30,000 people die from gun violence across America—a statistic we would associate with war in a far-off place. Countless more are left with a lifetime of injuries and trauma,” he said, adding that gun violence is a “national health crisis” that must be dealt with, and that “thoughts and prayers…[are] not enough.”
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Today marks 8 years since 20 first-graders and 6 educators were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
To honor the lives lost in this terrible tragedy, it’s past time we implement common-sense gun safety reforms to keep our children safe. pic.twitter.com/YmsIWM6dDG
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 14, 2020
“Every year, more than 30,000 people die from gun violence across America”
Note it says “America”. This 30,000 people die from gun violence is the total number of gun violence in both North America AND South America.
Just more lying Bull from the disgraceful Democrats.
If given a chance the Damn Democrats will totally disarm the law abiding citizens in our country.
Note that: …. I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a) Black males make up about 8% of the U.S. population but commit 53% of all the murders and 55% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 94% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans…. There is never anything said about this by the political Reich or the propaganda media.
Quoting real-world statistics is racist ya know? Like I say, they don’t intend to put anyone in jail, unless they refuse to give up the guns.
AND with the # of cities PROVING their libtard DA’s care not about jailing crooks, that thought of “ONLY US WHO Refuse to bow down to their dictates will be locked up, is looking more and more like it will come to pass.
Absolutely correct Scruffy. Democrats are Damnable Liars!
Izzy Sorry I meant to give you 5 stars
The old saying, you can’t fix stupid, goes double for demonrats. Fixing gun violence isn’t even on their radar, total control over every aspect of your life is. How do you subdue an armed population. Not a new thought
What did Biden / Obama do about gun violence NADA absolutely NADA
Other than give our guns, TO CROOKS!!
More gun control is NOT the answer since guns don’t kill, the PERSON HOLDING the gun kills!! The ONLY ANSWER TO GUN VIOLENCE is for the Africans to accept Jesus Christ!!
AND TILL WE start enforcing the HUNDREDS OF ANTI-GUN LAWS< we already have existing, it matters NOT how many new laws we create… IF THERE is no will to enforce them, the law is meaningless.
Accept the fact that in today’s America, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
UNLESS you are a democrat, in which case, NO AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE will ever convict you.
or even get you looked at funny
the key word in this article is CONTROL.
THAT IS all the left’s EVER been about. CONTROL!
One other note. How many deaths by abortion every year. I always hear if it just saves one child. Is that hypocrisy? It’s very clear that the left doesn’t care about lives, so why is the cause of death important ?
CAUSE they can’t CONTROL US under their tyranncial thumbs, with abortion. BUT THEY CAN with ‘gun control’.
The democrat party don’t care about anyone’s life only power and control.
That’s what I’ve been saying boone2… to them “NO LIVES MATTER”
CERTAINLY not AMERICAN citizens lives, judging by how many COMMUCRATS sseem to OVERLY PUT ILLEGAL invader’s “Rights” over ours..
Biden calls gun violence a national health crisis and wants more gun control. The only national health crisis in America is the democrat party and there voters there the one’s that need to be control.
Hey Ituser? Gun control means something quite different to you and I. Things like target acquisition, breathing, trigger control, not flinching. You know kind of like Dirty Harry said, “If there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it”. Tell me how people that have no idea how a gun works is going to send people that took an oath to protect and defend the constitution, to take our guns by force. That’s a very dangerous undertaking.
That’s partially why i feel, for ANYONE TO BE able to vote on gun control issues, THEY SHOULD EITHER Have handled it during military duty< OR HAVE ONE OF THEIR OWN BACK HOME!
Got that right jumpercable… 180 million plus well armed patriots that loath the Regressive Liberal Socialist Democrats (which is ALL of them) and find them in contempt of our Constitution… does the words blood bath mean anything to anyone? Arm Up.. Mask Down.. Powder Dry.
And pray tell, Where are these arme patriots, out side all these courts, continually CERTIFYING THE ELECTION THEFT? Where were they when all these communist anarchs were out rioting?
If gun control laws are so effective, why are places like Chicago , New York, and Los Angeles leading the nation in murder?
Because the bad guys will never turn in their weapons.
AND THAT simple fact, is LOST On commucrats!
The Regressive Liberal Socialist Democrat creed is : don’t confuse the issue with the facts.
To begin with Harris is a joke to our country being our Vice President. Turns my stomach. Other than that stay away from peoples guns.
I’m in the Chicagoland area, having grown up in Chicago. Chicago is, what, murder capital of America at the moment, despite having some of the toughest gun laws in the country. Every weekend, an average of 40/50 people are shot, sometimes more, and the majority happening in neighborhoods on the South and West side. I still remember when Obama came for a fundraiser one weekend to his then home in the Kenwood neighborhood. While he was raising millions for his second term, a local news anchor reported that you could hear gunfire while at the outside fundraiser. I might add, at no time, did Obama, while in Chicago, meet with any local community leaders about the violence or make any supportive comments. Obama only used/uses the race card when it benefits him, otherwise, he could care less about the Black people.
Which practically describes EVERY demon-rat, in office.. NOT ONE seem to actually give a flying ******* about blacks, OTHER THAN WHEN IT COMES to needing their vote to get, or stay in office.
Molon labe.
Get ready for the dem’s are coming.
‘We don’t plan on addressing this is a “policing matter”, meaning, no new people will go to jail. Rather, we’ll just take the guns from lawful owners, you know, the only ones that might actually turn in their weapons.” The problem won’t be solved and only the worst criminals will have them but, hey, gun contnrol.
We don’t have A gun in TEXAS.
We have all the guns and ain’t giving them to anyone!
We have more guns in Michigan!
AND all the ones the Gangs have, won’t be touched…
Like I heard a prepper say a couple of years ago, If you plan on hiding them, then we’ve already lost.
The only way to turn in your guns is after you have already sent all of your ammo, one at a time; emptying the guns.
They didn’t mind collecting the tax on those guns.
OR On the bullets!!
“common-sense gun safety reforms”
There is NO ONE in their administration with ANY COMMON SENSE!
Sure there is it’s called communist sense.
Heh. Good luck with that garbage. Heels Up Harris and Creepy Joe can implement whatever gun control they want. I estimate the compliance rate will be less than 0.5%… they won’t know whether to **** themselves or go blind..
AND who do they think will be ENFORCING Their gun confiscation orders?? CERTAINLY not the cops they’ve been DEFUNDING and supporting the ATTACKING of!
We are looking at an election victory embezzled from President Trump -Pence by Rotten Dem Legislation, and Dem-Rino appointed Federal Supreme Court Injustices. The rotten to the core Dem legislation also control our education establishments and mainstream media in all venues . This mind control of the public is what Godless communist countries do starting with kindergarteners.
The Culture War is being won by Dems and Rinos using fraudulent election machine technology before our very eyes. Guns do not kill but rotten to the core Dem legislated ideology allows criminals to go free, and commit crimes over and over again. They took The Lord’s Prayer out of schools, and have teachers normalizing perversion to our school kids by Dem Legislation, and Supreme Court Decree. The Deep Dem Swamp is difficult to drain when it controls the public schools, media, courts and environment by rotten Legislation.
Don’t forget SOROS… He’s the reason we have so many of those LIBTARD CROOK LOVING DA’s in state after state, city after city, REFUSING TO ENFORCE THE LAWS they swore oaths to uphold, and NOT GETTING punished for it!!
Because guns kill people, just as SUVs kill people. The nut behind the wheel/trigger has nothing to do with it.
Oh, and in the UK, where guns are already verboten, did you know that knives now kill people, and need to be regulated too?
Where does it end, you may ask? Historically, the answer is, “Totalitarianism.” But those were all just flukes.
Heels Up Harris and Creepy Joe are the only “national health crisis” around here.
SO ARE ALL their demented evil voters!
Only GOD can save us now.
Most of ya’ll are correct, but remember correct is not the rule in our country right now. In our family we have had guns and the gun control as been supervised by my husband down through 3 generations now and there has been no guns used in the wrong way. Teach gun respect and control and you have no problems with guns. No fathers in homes to teach and you have problems. Gun control will never deter crooks and lawless people. Gun control is not the answer and neither is our education system in our America. It takes parents being parents and realizing your children need to be taught respect for others and laws in order to stop the violence. My parents did it with disobey you go to the wood shed and you did not want to go there again.
True that. IF THEY WANTED TO follow the laws, THEY WOULDN”T be criminals now, would they!
I live in a very quiet rural area far from any city with 24/7 police protection and about 20 miles from the sheriff’s office. So when and if an intruder bursts through my door in the middle of the night, there are two stark alternatives; either the criminal will kill me because I am deprived of my Second Amendment rights or the intruder will be met with lethal force.
The alleged winner of the presidential election intends that the criminal will be the victor. I am pledged to defeat that result no matter what that requires.
If indeed evil defeats me, add yet one more dead body on top of the enormous heap as a result of Democrat support for abortion and euthanasia; aka mass murder, which is already worse than all of the Nazi death camps combined.
There are huge numbers of gun laws on the books now! No more!
If biden and harris assume office because of a rigged election, they will make criminals out of honest citizens! They are both illegitimate office contenders! I will not abide by anything they or the democrats say, pass or threaten!
I forgot where i saw it, but one site tracked the # of gun laws, FEDERAL, State and local, and their tally back in 2010, had it upwards of 450.. ITS GOTTA BE more like 500 by now.
Let’s see…Corona Virus is a ‘national health crisis’ so the nanny state government required the shut down of large areas of the economy (was this legal??).
Sooo…if gun violence is a ‘national health crisis’, I guess they will require gun owners to turn them in to the nanny state government???
Am I following the Dimocrat logic correctly???
WHAT LOGIC.. ITS nothing but a power grab, PURE AND SIMPLE>
So what should real Americans, that already have a gun permit to carry in their state??? WHAT happens when criminals get guns thru their method of stealing them??? W;hat happens when these criminals come and attempt to steal from you, or threaten you??? If you have a gun on your person, there would be no threatening or stealing from you. If you have no gun on your person, give up the whatever, just to stay alive.
camel-ah and demented joe, are both anti-American, and most realize it now, a little to late
The lying buffoon joe just wants to disarm America when that traitor brings China to our shores. He can tried but there will be alot of deaths..American people will not give up their rights for Joe who cheated to President. He not President yet.
BASED on how many millions, WILLINGLY accepted the face diaper mandates and lockdowns, i wouldn’t be saying “WE will not give up our rights willingly”..
Gun violence is not the fault of ghe weapon or the sensible compitent owner it IS A MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM SPEND THE TIME AND $ THERE FOR A CHANGE AND LEAVE OUR 2ND AMENDMENT ALONE IT OR THE MEMBERS ARE NOT AT FAULT ! !!
No one in my family for generations ever owned a firearm, except when in the service during WWII. But Sandy Hook was my Waterloo, after Obama’s reaction. At age 58, I took a NRA sponsored course in firearms, passed the test, went to a national sporting goods store that sold firearms, and bought my first Glock. I now have three firearms — because it’s my right to own them — and have other permits as well.
With the recent decision by the SCOTUS regarding the Texas case, one can imagine how most of the Justices will roll over on upcoming challenges to the Second Amendment, and they will be coming. The coming decade is going to be decisive for America in many ways, and its citizens are going to have to make some very grave decisions that will impact them, their families and the future of this country. The question is, how many are up to it, and whose side will law enforcement be on.
We”ve literally seen for YEARS< the Scotus punt, on taking any cases regarding all the ILLEGAL UNCONSTITUTIONAL anti-gun laws out there.. So i can EASILY see these hacks, accepting ones to FURTHER infringe on our rights.
Instead of new gun laws how about taking guns from criminals ?? Go into the hood and take criminals guns
I doubt ANY LE agency has the BALLS to even attempt to do that.
I hope, and I urge every police department, and my active military service brothers & sisters, resist and refuse to carry out any restriction, arrest, or confiscation ordered by the White House. Defeating these Chinese minions will only be successful if both civilian and military authorities, assist the American law abiding public.
Refund the police! Take your guns!! There is no way democrats can say they care about Americans.
Don’t forget, amnesty for illegal aliens, FREEING all crooks, and giving Crooks rights WE citizens don’t get to enjoy.
Come to my house Biden, I’ll give it to you.