On Parkland anniversary, Biden calls for tougher gun laws

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Sorrow reverberated across the country Sunday as Americans, including President Joe Biden, joined a Florida community in remembering the 17 lives lost three years ago in the Parkland school shooting massacre.

“In seconds, the lives of dozens of families, and the life of an American community, were changed forever,” Biden said in a statement released Sunday.

The president used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons.

There was no time to wait, the president said. “We owe it to all those we’ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now.”



FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2018 file photo, people comfort each other as they sit and mourn at one of seventeen crosses, after a candlelight vigil for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla. Sorrow is reverberating across the country Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, as Americans joined a Florida community in remembering the 17 lives lost three years ago in the Parkland school shooting massacre. President Joe Biden used the the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)


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[MyOwnPeace]

1. Well, THIS will give our

two new rootin' tootin' high falutin' super shots in the House something else to start crying about. Yeah, they make Annie Oakley looks like a tree-huggin' pacifist!

Great timing, President Joe - certainly a tough time to reconcile the loss of 17 students on Valentine's Day - another example about caring about Americans and not your own self.

[sfstaxprep]

2. He Doesn't Realize What Country He's Living In

Unless they're able to use the once a year reconciliation, this will NEVER get past a filibuster.

He might not even get 50 Democrats to vote for it, but the chances of more than a couple of repubs voting for stricter gun laws, are slim to none.

He needs a bill that causes More Deaths rather than Less, in order to get support from repubs. They love Death.

Perhaps a proposal that automatically gives children a gun on their 10th birthday.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Good!

[sakabatou]

4. Now watch people whine and scream that Biden's taking their guns away

[AverageOldGuy]

5. Meanwhile . . .

. . . Marjorie Taylor Green calls for . . . MORE GUNS IN SCHOOLS.

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-parkland/

There's stupid; there's industrial grade stupid; then, there's . . . .

[melm00se]

6. Biden gets a majority in the House

and proposes laws that, in the past, cost the Democrats a staggering number of House seats at the midterms.

Plus:

- Assault weapons - already heavily regulated + long guns, other than in a few high profile cases, are rarely used in the commission of a crime.

- Universal background checks - how is something like this enforced? Requiring people to retain some sort of document in perpetuity? Good luck with that.

- High capacity magazines - people have dozens of "high" capacity magazines. How is this enforced? New York has the so called "SAFE" Act and the lack of compliance and enforcement has made it effectively useless.

- Eliminating immunity - Gun manufacturers use a 2 tier distribution go to market strategy. Gun manufacturers sell to distributors who sell to resellers who sell to end users. By existing federal statutes (prohibiting restraint of trade), a manufacturer can only control who they sell to (in this case distributors) but cannot impact or influence the next step in the sales chain. The Biden administration is proposing that for a gun maker to comply with forces them to break another law. A Catch-22 that will never pass Constitutional muster.

Biden is repeating Clinton's mistake but this time the Democrats will not have the NRA to blame as gun owners do not need them to make their voices heard.