President Joe Biden told a group of mayors that they would be instrumental in implementing his Second Amendment policies, including a ban on some types of semiautomatic rifles, so-called “assault weapons.”
President Biden welcomed a bipartisan group of mayors attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting at the White House on Friday.
He told the mayors that the American Rescue Plan has spent $15 billion on infrastructure and public safety.
The president said much of that money went directly to cities to hire and equip police officers, institute violence intervention programs, and fund other crime prevention programs.
“You’ve done a tremendous job putting those resources to work. You know how to do it,” President Biden said. “Mayors are the people who get things done.”
He said that, at the urging of his staff, he is continuing his push for a revival of the 1990s-era “Assault Weapons Ban.”
The ban, which he said he helped the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) write, was in place from September 1994 to September 2004.
President Biden claimed the ban reduced violent crime, including mass shootings. That claim has motivated his administration to push for a renewal of the policy.
“My staff came to me and said, ‘We need a White House office dedicated to getting guns off the streets and treating the trauma from violence,” he said.
“I’m still committed to banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
“When we passed the Second Amendment, guess what? You weren’t allowed to have a cannon.”
During his speech Friday, President Biden drew chuckles from the mayors as he derided an argument sometimes made by Second Amendment advocates against “assault weapons” bans.
“You’ve heard, ‘the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots?’ Guess what, man? I didn’t see a whole lot of patriots out there walking around making sure that we have these weapons. If you really want to worry about the government, you need an F-16. You don’t need an AR-15,” President Biden said.
The president’s remarks drew laughter from the mayors.
A Rand Corporation study completed in 2020 and updated in 2023 found limited evidence that “high capacity magazine” bans reduced mass shootings and inconclusive evidence on the effect of banning “assault weapons” on the incidents of mass shootings.
President Biden also touted the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,” (BSCA) passed in June of 2022 as “the first gun safety law in 30 years.”
Under the BSCA, President Biden has issued numerous executive orders, directed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to change or write many sometimes controversial rules, and established a “White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention” last September.
The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is led by Vice President Kamala Harris and staffed by veterans of the gun control movement. Stefanie Feldman, President Biden’s staff secretary, runs the office with Greg Jackson and Rob Wilcox.
Previously, Mr. Jackson led the Community Justice Action Fund, which focused on the impact of violent crime involving guns on minority communities.
Mr. Wilcox worked at Brady, served on the Board of Directors of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, and practiced law in New York City.
Recently, Ms. Harris announced the office’s “Safer States Agenda” to push similar programs at the state level.
“We’re deploying teams to meet with communities that have been victimized, to make sure they get the help they need,” President Biden told the mayors.
Why does this demented, corrupt, fool and sock-puppet never address-……
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~64% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Maybe these treasonous, lying, woke, Democrats do NOT care about who is getting murdered and by whom.
This Dishonorable, treasonous, woke, socialist Democrat phony racist crusades have little or nothing to do with protecting the rights of Black Americans and everything to do with the Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts that the Democrat Party has a long history of lying and racial discrimination. For their cause is not defending the oppressed or the offended but about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political Con.
AND 99.9999% of all “MASS shootings” have happened in GUN FREE ZONES…
Laws won’t stop criminals doing bad things. KEEPING THEM locked the hell up will.
“He told the mayors that the American Rescue Plan has spent $15 billion on infrastructure and public safety.’,,,to hire more D.A.s that refuse to convict and jail criminals, with not a penny spent preparing the ability of cities to house, feed, medicate or support the 10 million lawbreaking illegals that they have already shuffled off to Buffalo in taxpayer funded flights and buses, along with other Democrat run major cities now swarming with crimes, of theft, rape and murder, leaving a crumbling infrastructure in his crime family version of the family planning to abort all arrest and prosecution of the mob mentality Joe and his American traitors have organized. Of course, he wants to disarm anyone who can oppose his planned takeover control of of every thought, dime, or gun owned, that might oppose his party of socialist subversion, whose rescue plan is to continue to cover a financially Democrat drowning nation with another lazy river of more national debt in a Bidenomics created by comics who are unable to cry, so just laugh their way to the bank with YOUR money. People and partys like Joe’s are the very reason for 2nd ammendments get added.
At least the old fool tacitly admits that the reason for the second amendment is not to appease hunters (as we so often hear from the gun control freaks). It is in fact to allow the citizenry to be able to arm against a tyrannical government.
So if I need an F-16 to take on the government according to Biden, or a nuke according to Swalwell, and there clearly weren’t any J6 protestors with F-16’s or nukes, then J6 couldn’t possibly be an “insurrection,” right?
How dare you bring up logic.. RHHHEEEE