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Biden announced in a speech that while he is holding out hope for the reinstatement of the Assault Weapons Ban, his strategy on reducing crime and gun prevention is to reduce gun violence is through revoking licenses to sell guns through loopholes.<\/p>\n
“Today the [Justice] Department is announcing a major crackdown to stem the flow of guns used to commit violent crimes,” Mr. Biden said. “It’s zero tolerance for gun dealers who willfully violate key existing laws and regulations. And I repeat, zero tolerance. If you willfully sell a gun to someone who is prohibited from possessing it, if you willfully fail to run a background check, if you willfully falsify a record, if you willfully fail to cooperate with inspections, my message to you is this: We will find you.”<\/p>\n
David sends.<\/p>\n
By COLLEEN LONG and JONATHAN LEMIRE<\/strong><\/p>\n WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden announced new efforts Wednesday to stem a rising national tide of violent crime, declaring the federal government is \u201ctaking on the bad actors doing bad things to our communities.\u201d But questions persist about how effective the efforts can be in what could be a turbulent summer.<\/p>\n Crime rates have risen after plummeting during the initial months of the coronavirus pandemic, creating economic hardship and anxiety. Biden\u2019s plan focuses on providing money to cities that need more police, offering community support and most of all cracking down on gun violence and those supplying illegal firearms.<\/p>\n \u201cThese merchants of death are breaking the law for profit,\u201d Biden said. \u201cIf you willfully sell a gun to someone who\u2019s prohibited, my message to you is this: We\u2019ll find you and we\u2019ll seek your license to sell guns. We\u2019ll make sure you can\u2019t sell death and mayhem on our streets.\u201d<\/p>\n But there are also tricky politics at play, and Biden\u2019s plan shows how few options the Democratic president has on the issue.<\/p>\n The steps he outlined are aimed at going hard after gun dealers who break federal law and establishing strike forces in several cities to help stop weapons trafficking. He also said he would seek more money for the agency that tracks the nation\u2019s guns.<\/p>\n But the rest of his new strategy boils down mostly to suggestions for beleaguered localities. He\u2019s encouraging cities to invest some of their COVID-19 relief funds into policing and pushing alternative crime reduction steps such as increased community support and summer jobs for teenagers \u2014 often both targets and perpetrators of violence.<\/p>\n But it\u2019s voluntary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “…providing money to cities that need more police…” That would be those cities that have defunded their organic police departments and have seen crime rates skyrocket. But teen summer jobs will fix that, if any employers can afford the ridiculous minimum wages for unskilled labor enacted in many of those self-same cities. <\/p>\n So lets go after licensed firearm dealers, who directly supply about none of the firearms used in crimes, and fund more community support. Whatever that means.<\/p>\n AP News<\/a><\/p>\n Thanks, David. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"