When president Joe Biden was leaving Buffalo on Tuesday, he was asked about adding a “domestic terrorism statute” to the books as a means to help stop mass killers.
Biden said the quiet part out loud.
“Well, we have enough laws on the books to deal with what’s going on now. We just have to — we have to deal with it,” replied Biden, before boarding Air Force One.
“Look, part of what the country has to do is look in the mirror and face the reality. We have a problem with domestic terror. It’s real,” he added.
Biden is rarely coherent so it wouldn’t be all that shocking if he reversed course on this statement in the near future. That said, it’s worth reflecting on for a moment.
There are plenty of existing federal, state, and local laws that ban murder and terrorism. Adding more would be redundant and not helpful to the underlying problem — stopping determined killers.
See the problem is that laws, for the most part, work retroactively as we all know. They provide a framework for prosecutors to charge individuals accused of committing crimes. That is, after the law’s been broken. After the victims have been slain.
With respect to the mass killing at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo on Saturday, the perpetrator broke numerous laws when he fatally shot 10 people and wounded 3 more. The law, which under federal guidelines can carry the death penalty for murder in the first degree, was not enough to deter or thwart this allegedly racist actor.
The same is true for the numerous gun laws the individual broke. New York bans 30-round magazines yet he used them during the attack on Saturday. He also illegally modified the receiver of his rifle to accept detachable magazines.
“Since I live in New York, I had to buy a cucked version of this before illegally modifying it,’’ the suspect wrote in his manifesto about the attack. “Since I live in cucked New York, and I am only 18, I can’t legally buy a lower or a standard ‘assault rifle.’”
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The perp continued saying that he “could’ve even bought a NY-SAFE featureless rifle, but what kind of cuck does that?”
It should be abundantly clear that no law, or set of laws, was going to stop this individual. But unlike his stance with respect to a new terrorism statute, Biden told reporters he wants to reinstitute a ban on so-called “assault weapons.”
“I’ve got to convince the Congress that we should go back to what I passed years ago,” Biden said, apparently referencing the ’94 ban on black rifles.
Why?
Biden, by his own logic, should recognize the futility of this approach. More gun control will not stop determined killers. We have all the laws we need to hold these individuals accountable.
What we need are more hard targets. More heroes like Tops’ security guard Aaron Salter, Jr., a retired police officer, who used his own firearm to engage the shooter.
Tragically, Salter’s attempt failed to stop the perp because he was wearing body armor but authorities still recognize that the security guard saved lives even though he lost his in the process.
Armed resistance from would-be victim works. Even the killer himself was aware of how New York’s gun laws chill the 2A rights of potential civilian responders, rendering them less capable to thwart an attacker.
“Plus NY has heavy gun laws so it would ease me if I knew that any legally armed civilian was limited to 10 round magazines or cucked firearms,” he said in his manifesto.
The softer the target the more emboldened the killer feels. We should be doing everything in our power to make it harder for these killers to take innocent lives. And that starts with getting more good guys and gals to exercise their 2A rights.
Sadly, many of those in power want to do the opposite. They want to keep responsible citizens from bearing arms in public.
What is “cucked” ?
Fix grinding debt and poverty. Fix the detestable access to and attitude towards mental health. Fix the absurd drug laws. Fix the rampant unemployment and runaway underemployment.
Fix all that and you’ll have fixed a bunch of the root causes of violence. Not going to happen though. That would require Democrats and Republicans to actually care about their fellow citizens and we can no longer treat people that have different political views as people.
The Republican party can’t even acknowledge that the average cost of rent in this country now outstrips what someone makes in a month on minimum wage which means the federal minimum wage needs to come up.
Neither side can do the very simple math required to see that student loan debt has reached a crisis level at that both parties are responsible for it.
I could go on and on about how these parties and their bootlickers have failed this country and its citizens. We are all supposedly armed to fight a government out of control but no one’s fired a shot yet and the system is killing all of us and all most of you petty minded glue eaters can worry about is what letter a person puts after their name like you’re all in the dumbest street gangs ever.
You make seemingly paradoxical comments in this article. On one hand, you mention that the laws in NY to include nonsensical magazine bans and lower receiver restrictions would have made it illegal for the shooter to possess this weapon and therefore justifying your stance that the laws were sufficient to eliminate this type of shooting- both laws that I would expect most gun owners might oppose. On other hand, you mention that we need hard targets carrying guns in stores, which is again mostly illegal in NY. The redeeming message here is that we have enough laws already as Biden pointed out.
We actually DO have sufficient laws on the books to deal with these things…but aspring politicians don’t care about that, they want something new and “Shiny!” to show off.
IF: we used, applied, and enforced the laws we already have, a lot of this violence wouldn’t be happening. But that means work…and we all know that for Politicans and some Police officials, that “Work” is a four-letter-word, and its better to make a new law than to honestly enforce (or ignore)the existing ones.
If, for example, the existing laws in New York had been enforced, the Buffalo shooting wouldn’t have happened…but that would mean that:
1. When the shooter (in school) spoke about mass shootings, that someone would have reported it, and
2. When reported, it would have been investigated by the proper authorities, and
3. The Shooter would have lost all access to firearms, due to his admitted racism and violent fantasies.
However, that was apparently too much work for somebody… or a number of somebodies…
Oh damn, did I say that out loud?
“Look, part of what the country has to do is look in the mirror and face the reality. We have a problem with domestic terror. It’s real,” he added……..and my open boarder policy will increase that reality one million fold!
I believe this needs to be treated as a hate crime, just like the black shooter on the sub way targeting white people but, we don’t hear much about that one anymore.
That’s why Joe’s handlers cringe every time he answers any question without having a teleprompter to read from. Occasionally he screws up and utters something that’s the unvarnished truth–their worst nightmare!
Yes the MURDERER used Color-of-skin in his attack.
He IS NOT a Law Abiding American Citizen!!
The WANTON MURDERER in Buffalo NY IS a TERRORIST.
This FACT IS PREVOLENT! He MUST face the STRICTIST PUNISMENT ALLOWED by The LAWS OF AMERICA!