CRIME Biden unveils strategy to stop gun crime

Thinwater

Firearms Manufacturer
This "Plan" calls for shutting down dealers for any violations. Then the 4473 forms have to be sent in the AFT, who coincidentally recently re worked the forms to make them friendly to scan with all required info for a defacto gun registration on the front page.

See my BS post re this from earlier last week.



He began his remarks by saying the rise in violent crime dates back to last year, before he took office.

"It has spiked since the start of the pandemic over a year ago. Crime historically rises during the summer. And as we emerge from this pandemic with the country opening back up again, the traditional summer spike may even be more pronounced than it usually would be," he said.

Joe Biden wearing a suit and tie: President Joe Biden speaks about crime prevention at the White House in Washington on June 23, 2021.
© Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President Joe Biden speaks about crime prevention at the White House in Washington on June 23, 2021.
He laid out a "comprehensive strategy" that will target law-breaking gun dealers, provide federal resources to police departments for gun-crime enforcement and allow communities to repurpose millions of dollars of federal coronavirus relief funding for programs proven to prevent gun violence.

Joe Biden wearing a suit and tie
© Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
In doing so, Biden is seeking to establish his footing amid GOP attacks over increased violent crime in American cities, many of which are run by Democrats.

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Gun violence has driven much of that increase recently and Biden framed the issue through that prism -- unlike Republicans, who blame high homicide rates on Democrats who called for police funding to be cut last year.

a group of people standing in front of a bicycle: People walk together during a Gun Violence Peace March, June 16, 2021, in Miami.
© Joe Raedle/Getty Images People walk together during a Gun Violence Peace March, June 16, 2021, in Miami.
In reality, demands to "defund the police" amid last year's racial justice protests amounted to modest funding reductions in some cities, while homicides have risen across the country, according to the Associated Press.


"This shouldn't be a red or blue issue," Biden said. "It's an American issue."

Before Biden pushed back against relentless Republican attacks that he's to blame, White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted Tuesday that violent crime has gone up not just "over the last 18 months" but "over the last five years or so."

The president intends to "give state and local officials a number of tools" to help them reduce gun crime, a senior Biden administration official said Tuesday.

The administration will allow communities to spend some of the funding they received as part of this spring's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill funding to combat gun crime, such as investing in summer jobs programs for youths; hiring more police officers and court personnel; spending on gun-violence enforcement; and paying for more nurses, counselors and social workers.

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The money could come from the $350 billion in state and local funding included in the relief bill signed into law in March, and in some cases from the $122 billion the bill set aside for schools, according to senior Biden administration officials.

Other measures include establishing a "zero-tolerance" policy for gun dealers who break the law; embedding federal law enforcement officials with local police departments; and hiring more formerly incarcerated people for jobs in the federal government, according to the White House.

Joe Biden, Merrick Garland are posing for a picture: Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks at the White House in Washington next to President Joe Biden after a roundtable discussion with advisers on steps to curtail U.S. gun violence on June 23, 2021.
© Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks at the White House in Washington next to President Joe Biden after a roundtable discussion with advisers on steps to curtail U.S. gun violence on June 23, 2021.
Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland met with several mayors, advocates and a police chief on Wednesday before making their remarks.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department also announced it was launching gun trafficking "strike forces" to five U.S. cities experiencing rising violent crime levels where law enforcement officials hope to crack down on stolen and illegally purchased firearms.

But the White House has struggled to explain what prompted the president to focus on crime this week in particular -- with Psaki presenting his remarks, instead, as a continuation of his previous support for gun control measures and community policing.

Even as the White House touts the limited steps Biden has taken to regulate hard-to-track "ghost guns" and accessories that make pistols more like rifles, gun-control advocates maintain that real action needs to take place in Congress.

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On Capitol Hill, the Democratic-led House of Representatives passed two bills that would expand and strengthen the use of background checks for firearms purchases. But the measures have stalled amid Republican opposition in the Senate.

The president, meanwhile, has used his bully pulpit to advocate for legislative progress on guns, but he has prioritized other issues: the coronavirus pandemic, rebuilding the economy and passing a major infrastructure package.

On the campaign trail, Biden made bigger promises on guns on which he has yet to follow through, including banning the importation of assault weapons.

a group of people standing in front of a crowd: Protesters demand police reform at a rally for the late George Floyd, Oct. 14, 2020, in New York City.
© John Minchillo/AP, FILE Protesters demand police reform at a rally for the late George Floyd, Oct. 14, 2020, in New York City.
Guns are at the center of rising homicide rates nationwide. The number of killings has jumped even as other types of crime are becoming less common.

Homicides spiked by 30% in 2020 compared to the year before, according to a study released earlier this year by the National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice.

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And in the first three months of 2021, the number of homicides increased by 24% compared to the same period in 2020 and by 49% compared to the start of 2019, the researchers said.

While other violent crimes, like aggravated assaults and gun assaults, saw modest increases in 2020 compared to 2019, the number of non-violent crimes like residential burglaries dropped, the study found.

Last year also presented a unique variety of circumstances that could have impacted the shifting rates, such as police officers pulling back over fears of contracting COVID-19 or criminals taking advantage of protests over police killings.

After he concluded his formal remarks Wednesday, a reporter asked, "Mister President, are you still holding out hope that Congress can pass another weapons ban?

"I never give up hope," he answered.





Biden unveils strategy to stop gun crime as summer violence spikes (msn.com)
 

dvo

Veteran Member
Mr. Potato Head saving the world. There may be a few unethical dealers, but hard to believe the ATF let them slide, unless that was part of a bigger op. I’d cry, but been doing too much crying lately. No wonder Dennis is wondering.
 

Henry Bowman

Veteran Member
How long before they weaponize the Bureau of Assholes Taking Firearms Exponentially to an even great degree of Jack Bootedness ?
 

raven

TB Fanatic
Biden says he is coming for your guns
meanwhile . . .
Black people are buying even more guns.

 

subnet

Boot
The task forces they are creating, will be the ones to start the confiscations and develope from there.
 

The Snack Artist

Membership Revoked
Once again, if the feds were serious about "gun crime" they would go house to house on the congo's south and west sides and confiscate weapons. Chicken stiffs won't go there though.
 

Henry Bowman

Veteran Member
Biden says he is coming for your guns
meanwhile . . .
Black people are buying even more guns.

Oh goody.

Better than them just throwing poop at you I guess.
 

jward

passin' thru
This is what got my attention, and hackles up. What's that make, two or three times
now that bastards have obliquely threatened us with NUKES. :fgr:

I have the utmost respect
and confidence for our "good ole boys", but will monkey wrenching supply chains and
taking out bridges really stand up to that chit???
..not to mention the variant 35353598 and all it's younger siblings : (


Don't forget to nuke your own citizens too.

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day late

money? whats that?
From what I've seen, almost everything that is being proposed, is already law. This is theater.
 

jward

passin' thru
Once again, wadr, if we're still worried bout the negro underclass threat, we're gonna get our arses handed to us in our hats.

That bunch o' sharp shooters is a sliver of one arm of the problem, and many of them will, literally, shoot themselves b4 they get the gun pointed the right way.
(yeah i know, and some are deadly and well trained- but so are yall, so still, no nukes, n not worried)

makes more sense to me, iffin we must chose an enemy based on skin tone, to look at the mexicans, other-than-mexicans,
and all the other cartels and their armed drones and access to Fentanyl enough to wipe out major cities - they have the skills, intent, structure and desire to carry out mayhem.
 

Dystonic

Senior Member
other cartels and their armed drones and access to Fentanyl enough to wipe out major cities - they have the skills, intent, structure and desire to carry out mayhem.
Yikes! That seems just too likely. If they had China’s blessing, I could easily see them hitting San Francisco. It’s not as Hispanic as most of the Southwest like LA, Phoenix, or San Antonio. They get their Aztlan, China gets the west coast, and the whites and blacks are pushed together east of the Mississippi River.
 

Rabbit

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Anytime Biden unveils any of his ideas it reminds me of a joke I heard decades ago, "Ghengis Ghan jokes crowd cringes".
 
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