Biden to law enforcement: We need your help on gun violence

Vice President Joe Biden met with cabinet officials and law enforcement representatives today in Washington, D.C., to convene the first meeting of President Obama's gun violence task force.

The task force, which was created in the wake of the tragic shootings at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, has been charged with generating actionable policy ideas to prevent or reduce the incidence of gun violence in America.

Seated between the president of the National Association of Police Organizations and the Philadelphia police commissioner Biden noted, "I've worked with some of you for a long, long time," adding, "I know you all. I know you well."

"You're the first group that I wanted to speak with" about reducing gun violence, Biden said, because "You know better than anyone what is needed out there. And what I think the public has learned about you is you have a much more holistic view of how to deal with violence on our streets and in our country that you're ever given credit for."

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Biden referenced the pivotal role law enforcement groups played in past crime policy debates: "We were writing the crime bill years ago, and everybody thought that was a -- just an exercise to reach out and pretend we cared about what you thought. You, the police organizations, were the organizations that came forward and not only dealt with the punishment-incarceration side of it, you were the ones who came up with the ideas about community policing. You came up with the ideas about reaching out, having drug courts."

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Biden to law enforcement: We need your help

"We're going to need your help" again, Biden explained. "We've worked on everything from cop-killer bullets to the type of weapons that should be off the street and a whole lot else. So that's what I want to talk to you about today. I want to hear your views because, for anything to get done, we're gonna need your advocacy."

Biden asked for a "frank discussion," joking, "With that, I'd like to disinvite the press out of the room."

[joesapper]

This one was the game changer and Biden will have the majority vote in protection of America .

Pres Obama gave a speech in the outdoors in the past and a guy showed up with an ar15 over his shoulder as enforcement stood by and closely monitored the guy , this was in Arizona , I would not want to see what the result would be to day .

The attack in CT was a game changer .

[joesapper]

The people not the cops would confront the idiot that brought a weapon to the speech if this were to occur today after the CT attack . This is a game changer .

[curtis41]

Looks like Obama has already preempted Joe Biden's assignment. Particularly troubling is item 3. below:

Yesterday morning, Barack Obama held a press conference confirming our greatest fears...

"He's launching an all out campaign to pass comprehensive gun control:

1. A so-called "Assault Weapons" Ban,

2. A "High-Capacity" Magazine Ban, and

3. A ban on ALL Private Firearms Sales without government permission.

And he wants the legislation on his desk as early as January."

Since when did American citizens require permission from the federal government to sell a firearm? Is this the republic I knew and love, or are we becoming a police state? I just gave a handgun to my son, have had it for about 25 years, does this count? I understand establishing reasonable gun laws, but out of some 20,000+ to date across the states, they are largely ineffective, and some of them with deadly UNintended consequences. Criminals generally don't follow gun laws, that is one reason they are called criminals. A'la Ayn Rand, if we criminalize enough behavior, almost every single person will become a criminal. However, that said, George Orwell in his 1984 would be proud of this kind of government intervention in the lives of ordinary citizens and the Ministry of Truth for disseminating outrageous legislative agendas for the annointed.

[MaxyRaddy]

One thing about Biden, He's consistent. If brains were dynomite he wouldn't be able to blow his nose.