{"id":84665,"date":"2022-08-19T13:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84665"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:51:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T18:51:54","slug":"84665","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84665","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Biden invites gun control groups to White House to help “heal the soul of a nation”<\/a><\/p>\n

Makes sense. After all, nothing promotes unity like demonizing 80-100 million gun owners and threatening to turn them into criminals if they don\u2019t register or turn their AR-15s over to the government, right?<\/p>\n

Next month Joe Biden\u2019s going to be hosting a \u201cUnited We Stand Summit\u201d that\u2019s ostensibly about the \u201ccorrosive effects\u201d of threats of violence on our political system and public life; an event that White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre\u00a0claims<\/a>\u00a0will be \u201cimportant opportunity for Americans of all races, religions, regions, political affiliations, and walks of life to take up that cause together.\u201d If you don\u2019t believe in gun-controlling our way to \u201cunity\u201d, however, expect your invite to get lost in the mail.<\/p>\n

Biden will deliver a keynote speech at the gathering, which the White House says will include civil rights groups, faith leaders, business executives, law enforcement,\u00a0gun violence prevention advocates<\/strong>, former members of violent hate groups, the victims of extremist violence and cultural figures. The White House emphasized that it also intends to bring together Democrats and Republicans, as well as political leaders on the federal, state and local levels to unite against hate-motivated violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know, there are plenty of new gun owners out there who specifically bought a firearm because they\u2019re worried about being the victim of \u201cextremist violence\u201d who might also have a thing or two to say about the idiocy of trying to reduce violence by preventing people from defending themselves, but Biden and his allies have no interest in hearing from those folks. In fact, for an event that\u2019s ostensibly about promoting unity, it sure seems awfully divisive in nature.<\/div>\n

Sindy Benavides, the CEO of League of United Latin American Citizens, said the genesis of the summit came after the Buffalo massacre, as her organization along with the Anti-Defamation League, the National Action Network and other groups wanted to press the Biden administration to more directly tackle extremist threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs civil rights organizations, social justice organizations, we fight every day against this, and we wanted to make sure to acknowledge that government needs to have a leading role in addressing right-wing extremism,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u2026 Benavides said Biden holding the summit would help galvanize the country to address the threats of hate-inspired violence but also said she hoped for \u201clong-term solutions\u201d to emerge from the summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s important to us is addressing mental health, gun control reform, addressing misinformation, disinformation and malinformation,\u201d she said. \u201cWe want policy makers to focus on common sense solutions so we don\u2019t see this type of violence in our communities. And we want to see the implementation of policies that reduce violence.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sounds like less of a summit and more like a pep rally for Democrats to me; a day where Biden and his closest allies can portray Republicans as \u201cright wing extremists\u201d and push for more divisive gun control laws ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n

The divides in this country are obviously growing deeper by the day, but this event is likely to flame those tensions instead of alleviating them. I truly hope I\u2019m wrong, but given the blatantly partisan nature of this \u201cunity summit,\u201d it\u2019s hard to predict otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biden invites gun control groups to White House to help “heal the soul of a nation” Makes sense. After all, nothing promotes unity like demonizing 80-100 million gun owners and threatening to turn them into criminals if they don\u2019t register or turn their AR-15s over to the government, right? Next month Joe Biden\u2019s going to … 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":[11,9,5,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-politics","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84665","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=84665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84668,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84665\/revisions\/84668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}