President Joe Biden got blasted for his hypocrisy in the wake of his most recent calls for gun control. Those calls came after the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. The reason he got dunked on repeatedly was that he’d just pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, over a conviction for violating gun control laws.
There was more than a bit of hypocrisy detected there.
However, there’s a different kind of hypocrisy on Biden’s part.
President Joe Biden has issued a statement following the shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School, saying Congress must act to prevent more gun violence.
On Monday, a shooter opened fire at the Wisconsin school, killing two people and injuring six others. The suspect was found dead from self-inflicted gunshot wounds at the scene.
“Today, families in Madison, Wisconsin, are grieving the loss of those who were killed and wounded at Abundant Life Christian School. It’s shocking and unconscionable. We need Congress to act. Now,” Biden said in a statement published by the White House.
Biden did not release a similar statement following the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was shot in New York on December 4.
I briefly touched on this in an earlier piece today. However, that was just a sentence and this is a bigger issue.
Now, Newsweek argued that Biden typically only comments on mass shootings of various types, which is why he didn’t comment on Thompson’s murder with a call for more gun control, but I’m going to call BS on that. Why? Their reasoning is…questionable.
While Thompson’s killing was front page news, 125 people are killed with a gun every day in the United States, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, and the president rarely comments on individual shootings unless they occur at a school or qualify as a mass shooting.
“Rarely comments” isn’t the same as “never comments.” He doesn’t comment on every individual shooting because there are a lot of them each day. We’re a big country and we’ve got a lot of shootings, unfortunately. He couldn’t comment on every single one, even if he wanted to.
But high profile shooting like Thompson’s murder? That’s a different matter entirely, especially as it reportedly involved a 3D-printed “ghost gun.” It was a golden opportunity to advance one of his favorite narratives.
Only, he didn’t. Why?
Because a lot of people on the left absolutely loved the murder. They’re celebrating it. Yes, still.
For Biden to come out and say anything negative about the murder might have been considered a bad thing, and since there’s little chance Joe Biden is still driving the bus, those staffers were bound and determined to make sure he didn’t anger that very progressive, very online, and very amoral voter base.
He didn’t comment on it because too many people in his party fail to see the murder as a bad thing in any appreciable way.
Yet if guns are so terrible and we need gun control, which makes the case better: A murder of a CEO by someone who 3D printed the gun and suppressor or the school shooter who shattered every narrative about how gun control makes everyone safer?
So yeah, this is another way he’s a raging hypocrite.
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