One of President Joe Biden’s core constituencies—America’s gun prohibition lobby—has a serious problem, according to a report at Politico, summed up in two words: Hunter Biden.
In a 1,310-word report, Politico acknowledges the problem and describes the dilemma being faced by gun control proponents: “The nation’s top gun control groups are awkwardly avoiding talking about Hunter Biden’s gun conviction — and his widely expected appeal on Second Amendment grounds.”
As noted in the report, Hunter Biden’s defense team “tried, to no avail, to have the charges thrown out before trial on Second Amendment grounds, and they are virtually certain to renew that argument when they appeal the conviction.”
While Hunter’s legal troubles were unfolding over the past couple of years, his father managed to push through the first gun control law in some 30 years, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, and created the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
However, as noted by the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms after the verdict in Hunter Biden’s case came down, “At some point President Biden must reflect on his half-century of gun control extremism and acknowledge that none of the laws he championed prevented his son from illegally buying a gun and being convicted of the crime in a Delaware courtroom. Meanwhile, millions of American citizens who have committed no crimes are nevertheless penalized daily by the laws and regulations the president and his anti-run-rights allies have supported in the misguided belief they have the moral high ground.”
CCRKBA is hardly the only source of bad karma for the Bidens, particularly the president.
Writing at the Longview, Texas News-Journal, columnist Christine Flowers is blunt about Hunter Biden’s conviction, and about the problem now faced by the gun ban lobby.
“The crime is simple,” Flowers observes, “and I’m sure those who support gun control can agree: Hunter Biden tried to get a gun in violation of laws that protect the public against people like him.
“If any of the folks who think the Second Amendment is fake or fungible,” she adds, “and who want to ban assault rifles and do all sorts of things to keep guns out of people’s hands have the audacity to excuse what Biden did, we should point fingers at these rank hypocrites.”
Hunter Biden’s conviction presents another challenge for anti-gunners. The First Son wasn’t guided to drugs by the presence of a gun. It was the other way around, and the trial revelations prove it. Biden was addicted to crack cocaine when he bought the Colt .38 Special and lied on the federal Form 4473.
The gun did not commit the crime, the individual—in this case Hunter Biden—did.
Now, during the trial and in the almost-certain appeal, Politico sees Hunter Biden’s legal team using the argument that the drug prohibition which tripped up their client violates the Second Amendment. It could make Joe Biden’s campaign dance around the gun control issue like bare feet on hot coals.
One of President Biden’s key support groups is the gun prohibition lobby. They must now navigate a political minefield.
