{"id":69903,"date":"2021-07-19T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69903"},"modified":"2021-07-19T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T20:00:44","slug":"69903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=69903","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Curtis Sliwa Blasts Biden Anti-Gun Gathering<\/a><\/p>\n

The New York mayor\u2019s race is heating up. Former police officer Eric Adams is already projected to win, and in New York City, that\u2019s not overly surprising. However, his Republican opponent, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa isn\u2019t exactly rolling over and handing him the keys to the mayor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Instead, he\u2019s fighting back. In doing so,\u00a0he\u2019s not afraid to aim at the White House<\/a>\u00a0and a recent gathering that included Adams.<\/p>\n

As crime in\u00a0New York City<\/a>\u00a0regresses toward the crisis level seen in the 1970s, Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa argues his decades of experience leading the unarmed patrol group the Guardian Angels has prepared him far better than Democratic opponent Eric Adams to tackle worsening violence across the Big Apple a year after the onset of the \u201cdefund police<\/a>\u201d movement.<\/p>\n

President Biden included Adams, a retired NYPD captain and current Brooklyn borough president, in a roundtable discussion on gun violence at the White House this week \u2013 even though Adams barely won his Democratic primary and there is still a general election in November, Sliwa told Fox News.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, his invitation was purely political,\u201d Sliwa said. \u201cIt\u2019s almost as if they decided we don\u2019t want to hear from the Republican, even though in this arena Curtis Sliwa has more credentials than anyone who attended that White House conference, especially Eric Adams.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sliwa, unlike other attendees at the roundtable, has a unique perspective as he is personally a victim of gun violence. He was shot five times in June 1992 on the orders of John Gotti Sr. to John Gotti Jr. and the Gambino crime family, and therefore went through four federal trials.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand the problems of gun violence having experienced it,\u201d Sliwa, who was once shot with a .38 Special handgun, said. \u201cYou say \u2018gun control, gun control\u2019 because that\u2019s always what comes out of these sessions. That would have done nothing to have stopped the gunman.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sliwa has always taken a more proactive role in combating violent crime in New York City than most so-called gun violence activists. Rather than blaming the weapon, he\u2019s always recognized the problem isn\u2019t the tool, it\u2019s the tool using it.<\/p>\n

While many decried the Guardian Angels\u2019 existence, let\u2019s be honest, at least they were doing something tangible rather than holding rallies and hoping that would somehow stop the violence. They weren\u2019t armed and weren\u2019t trying to be polite, but they weren\u2019t playing around, either.<\/p>\n

Whether it worked or not is a topic for another time.<\/p>\n

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Sliwa, however, wasn\u2019t included in the discussion despite his status as someone who has actually been shot. Why not? Probably because, as a Republican, it was believed he would oppose further anti-Second Amendment measures. Based on what Silwa has said, that\u2019s probably true.<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden didn\u2019t want Curtis Sliwa there because he didn\u2019t want input, he wanted a pretext to take additional steps to impact our right to keep and bear arms. Sliwa would likely have ended up as a thorn in Biden\u2019s side during the meeting, probably because Sliwa would have assumed Biden wanted honest feedback, not justification for what he had already planned.<\/p>\n

Frankly, I hope Sliwa gets louder about stuff like this. He had just as much reason to be in that meeting, if not more. The fact that he wasn\u2019t included is nothing but blatant partisanship by the White House. It\u2019s why no one should take their anti-Second Amendment proposals seriously as the administration pushes them forward and claims any sort of consensus was reached.<\/p>\n

None of that matters because the deck was stacked to start with.<\/p>\n

Of course, none of us are really surprised by that, either. That\u2019s just the standard operating procedure for the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

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Curtis Sliwa Blasts Biden Anti-Gun Gathering The New York mayor\u2019s race is heating up. Former police officer Eric Adams is already projected to win, and in New York City, that\u2019s not overly surprising. However, his Republican opponent, Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa isn\u2019t exactly rolling over and handing him the keys to the mayor\u2019s office. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69904,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69903\/revisions\/69904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}