By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
Deadly holiday weekend shootings in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Fort Worth prompted Democrat President Joe Biden to once again call for more restrictive gun control measures, none of which would likely have prevented any of the blood-letting.
Biden wants a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and original capacity magazines, mandatory “safe storage” of firearms and so-called “universal background checks.”
In a White House statement, Biden declared, “It is within our power to once again ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, to require safe storage of guns, to end gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability, and to enact universal background checks. I urge other states to follow Illinois’ lead, and continue to call upon Republican lawmakers in Congress to come to the table on meaningful, commonsense reforms that the American people support.”
When CNBC reported on the deadly shootings, it also listed Wichita, Kansas and Lansing, Mich., it also mentioned five people killed and “at least 30 more wounded” in Chicago.
Biden has been a perennial gun control proponent since first arriving inside the Beltway some 50 years ago. His gun control agenda hasn’t changed much over the past three decades, and he rode into the White House on a gun control platform which lately has been facing dismemberment thanks to various federal court rulings and last year’s Supreme Court decision in the Bruen case out of New York.
A new Rasmussen report says Biden finished June with a job approval rating of 44 percent, down one point from the end of May. Fifty-four percent disapprove of his job performance, but the real important numbers come when the survey results are broken down.
Monday’s daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows Biden only enjoys a 23 percent total of people who “strongly approve” while those who “strongly disapprove” of his job performance is at 44 percent.
Meanwhile, the suspect in Philadelphia has been identified as Kimbrady Carriker, 40. He faces at least five counts of murder and several counts of attempted murder. According to Fox News, Carriker was armed with an AR-15-type rifle, a handgun, a ballistic vest and he had a police radio scanner.
District Attorney Larry Krasner used the shooting as a reason to call for more gun restrictions.
Fox quoted Krasner stating, “I just want to say this: it is disgusting, the lack of proper gun legislation that we have in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania… It is disgusting that you can go to New Jersey and find a whole list of reasonable gun regulation that we don’t have, that you can go to Delaware and there’s almost as long a list of reasonable gun legislation that we don’t have.”
