Joe Biden’s Gun Control Speech Was Washington in a Nutshell – Opinion

Joe Biden addressed the nation last night about gun control. In a meandering speech full of misleading statements and obfuscations, the president focused on banning “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines instead of even entertaining common-sense solutions that could directly protect schools.

Biden was an elderly man that should have retired years ago. He perfectly captured the old, ineffective thinking which so frequently flows from Washington’s innards.

BIDEN: “Enough. Limit the number of rounds that a weapon can carry. “Why should any ordinary person be allowed to buy an assault weapon with 30-round magazines that allow mass shooters to fire hundreds of bullets per minute? pic.twitter.com/JUstaS6zxb

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 2, 2022

Shouting “enough” is apparently what passes for sentient thought inside the beltway, where emotion is king, but “doing something” is not actually a solution to anything. Reloading a magazine takes only three seconds. Asinine to think that an evil mass shooter will refrain from doing a horrible act simply because they can only buy 10-round magazines. It’s an emotional, vapid idea that sounds good for the press but does nothing to limit the damage that can be caused by a determined individual.

Furthermore, magazines can be made from plastic pieces with springs. With today’s technology, altering magazines for higher capacity (or guns to accept higher-capacity magazines that already exist) is something the government will never have the ability to prevent. It is meaningless to focus on this. The truth is, Democrats are more concerned with the image of doing something rather than doing it.

It’s not 1994 anymore. Biden doesn’t seem to realize that, though, which isn’t surprising given his mental state. His prescriptions are outdated and ineffective, crafted in a world that hasn’t existed in decades. You don’t have to keep repeating the same outdated ideas every time you govern.

Then there’s Biden’s plugging of “red flag” laws.

“Red flag laws could have stopped both of these shooters” says Joe Biden

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) June 2, 2022

Again, it’s like I’m taking crazy pills, except I know I’m not. New York is home to one of our strictest and broadest red-flag laws. The shooter was not stopped by it. Why? Red flag laws are not good for anyone. Red flag laws may work for suicide prevention if family members speak up. But they don’t do much when dealing with criminally inept shooters. Never mind the due process concerns of violating a person’s rights just because another person made a report.

Debats over locking down schools and providing greater security continue to be ridiculed. In short, Biden’s speech was Washington in a nutshell. It was rampant emotionalism wrapped in faux empathy being used to push policies that won’t work to prevent mass shootings. I’d say we are smarter than this as a nation, but I’m not sure we are.