{"id":81204,"date":"2022-05-18T14:34:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81204"},"modified":"2022-05-18T14:34:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T19:34:06","slug":"81204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81204","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun control groups issue new (and impotent) demands to D.C. Democrats<\/a><\/p>\n

A day after the number two Democrat in the U.S. Senate publicly stated that\u00a0he doesn\u2019t see a reason<\/a>\u00a0to hold a vote on any gun control proposals because they\u2019re doomed to failure, a coalition of 38 gun control organizations (who knew there were that many?) is demanding that Congress not only vote on, but approve\u00a0Joe Biden\u2019s gun ban<\/a>\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n

The gun control activists laid out three demands for the Democratic-controlled Congress, none of which are likely to happen. First, the gun control lobby wants the House to approve spending $750-million on \u201cevidence led Community Violence Initiatives\u201d, which is on top of the roughly $2-billion\u00a0<\/em>that was approved in Biden\u2019s \u201cAmerican Rescue Plan\u201d. Just a few days ago the White House even\u00a0issued a call<\/a>\u00a0for these groups to apply for grants because the money is there for the taking. Nancy Pelosi might be willing to go along with this demand, but I doubt there are 60 votes in the Senate.<\/p>\n

The second demand from the gun control groups is House passage of \u201clegislation banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines,\u201d which is also going nowhere in Congress. Nancy Pelosi, who put a universal background check bill on the floor of the House for a vote, hasn\u2019t pushed for a similar vote on Biden\u2019s gun ban plan, and while that could change, any bill that would pass the House is going to die in the Senate.<\/p>\n

The gun ban fans are also specifically calling on the Senate to \u201clive up to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer\u2019s pledge to hold a Senate debate and vote on legislation expanding background checks to all gun purchases and addressing the Charleston Loophole,\u201d though oddly they don\u2019t say anything in their demand letter about the Senate voting on Biden\u2019s gun ban and compensated confiscation scheme.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the most recent racist act of domestic terrorism in Buffalo, New York and the increase in gun
\nviolence across the country, we are calling on you to immediately do everything and anything in your power to live up to the promises you make to voters every election year,\u201d the groups wrote in their letter.<\/p>\n

The groups also asked the Biden administration to answer the calls of survivors and \u201cestablish a White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in order to expedite the government\u2019s response and issue further executive actions that will save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith voters expressing concern about public safety and rising crime, you have a moral and political
\nresponsibility to fight for the safer future you promise Americans on the campaign trail every election season,\u201d the groups wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The White House has resisted that particular demand for well over a year now, and new press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked again yesterday about the idea, but was decidedly non-committal in her response.<\/p>\n

Q\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Further on the issue of guns: Gun prevention groups or gun violence protection groups \u2014 prevention groups, rather \u2014 have been pressing the White House to start an office of gun violence protection.\u00a0 Is that something that President Biden is considering, particularly in light of this most recent attack?<\/p>\n

MS. JEAN-PIERRE:\u00a0 So I would have to go back to the team and see if that is something that\u2019s actually on the table.\u00a0 I have not heard of that.\u00a0 I could understand why that is being requested or asked, especially what we have been seeing these past \u2014 this past weekend.\u00a0 I just don\u2019t have anything more to share or preview or anything to \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Jean-Pierre hasn\u2019t heard about the idea, then that means no one in the White House is seriously talking about it, because that particular demand has been made\u00a0for well over a year<\/a>. My guess is she knows far more than she was willing to disclose in a press gaggle; namely that the White House has no plans to acquiesce to this particular demand from their anti-gun allies.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll confess that I\u2019m a little surprised that Biden hasn\u2019t thrown the gun control lobby this particular bone to appease them, but whatever internal politics are in play seem to have kept that option off the table. Still, with Congress a dead-end for their anti-gun agenda at the moment (and likely for\u00a0the next two years as well<\/a>, begging the White House to help make them relevant is the best option the gun control lobby has left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gun control groups issue new (and impotent) demands to D.C. Democrats A day after the number two Democrat in the U.S. Senate publicly stated that\u00a0he doesn\u2019t see a reason\u00a0to hold a vote on any gun control proposals because they\u2019re doomed to failure, a coalition of 38 gun control organizations (who knew there were that many?) … 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-81204","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\/81204","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=81204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81205,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81204\/revisions\/81205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}