Letter to me from Vice President Joe Biden

[Big Frank]

Hello --

Today President Obama announced a plan to help protect our kids and communities from gun violence. You're going to hear a lot about it, but I wanted to make sure you got a chance to get the facts, straight from me.

After hearing from Americans from across the political spectrum, we decided to focus on some key priorities: closing background check loopholes, banning military-style assault weapons, making our schools safer, and increasing access to mental health services.

The ideas we sent to President Obama are straightforward. Each of them honors the rights of law-abiding, responsible Americans to bear arms. Some of them will require action from Congress; the President is acting on others immediately. But they're all commonsense and will help make us a little safer.

Now is the time for all of us to act.

Read about the events that brought us to this point, learn about the plan we've proposed to help protect our kids, and then add your name in support to help build momentum for this plan.

Here's what we've put together:

We're calling for requiring background checks for all gun sales and closing the loopholes that allow dangerous individuals to make their purchase without going through one of these checks.

We're asking for a new, stronger ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that allow a shooter to fire dozens of bullets as quickly as he can pull a trigger. And we're asking Congress to help protect law enforcement by make it illegal for members of the public to possess armor-piercing bullets.

We're going to give law enforcement more tools and resources to prevent and prosecute gun crimes, and we're going to end the freeze on gun violence research that prevents the Center from Disease Control from looking at the causes of gun violence.

We're calling on Congress to help make schools safer by putting up to 1,000 school resource officers and mental health professionals in schools and ensuring they have comprehensive emergency management plans in place.

And we're going to increase coverage so that students and young adults can get access to the mental health treatment they may need.

We know that no policy we enact or law we enforce can prevent every senseless act of violence in our country. But if we can save the life of even one child, we have a deep responsibility to act.

Now is the time to come together to protect our kids. Learn about the plan, then add your name alongside mine:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/now-is-the-time

Thanks,

Vice President Joe Biden

[tombogan03884]

Letter to me from VP "Greasy Joe" Biden,

F*ck you peon.

[PegLeg45]

Letter to me from VP "Greasy Joe" Biden,

F*ck you peon.

I like your direct approach there, Tom.   


Subtlety is for hand grenades.  

[Solus]

We're calling for requiring background checks for all gun sales and closing the loopholes that allow dangerous individuals to make their purchase without going through one of these checks.

I love this one.

You can tell the law abiding black market arms sellers since they will be using wireless phone for background checks.

We're calling on Congress to help make schools safer by putting up to 1,000 school resource officers and mental health professionals in schools and ensuring they have comprehensive emergency management plans in place.

Like this one too.  With over 98.000 schools in the US, these 1000 officers will really be effective.  Of course, maybe they will have a large travel allowance and helicopters.

[tombogan03884]

That's what Clinton said too.
Remember the COPS program ?

[Sponsor]

[kmitch200]

And we're asking Congress to help protect law enforcement by make it illegal for members of the public to possess armor-piercing bullets.

Is there any clarity on this?
I saw this given a passing mention on the news. Since We The People are already banned from possessing pistol ammo that defeats soft body armor, are they going to add rifle ammo to the list?

The 'now perfect' Sen. Kennedy used to use that as his poison pill amendment to kill off any legislation he wanted gone - knowing full well that VIRTUALLY ALL rifle ammo will zip through a soft vest - usually both sides.

[tt11758]

We're calling for requiring background checks for all gun sales

That's a lot to ask, since Barry O has yet to come clean about HIS background.