HYPOCRISY : Left’s Biggest Gun-Control Activist Silent On Hunter Biden’s Reckless Firearm Scandal

“Now is the time to push the Senate to do the right thing and pass background check legislation. Because this moment is different,” wrote Shannon Watts on Monday in The Nation, where she insisted the U.S. government should be “closing loopholes in order to stop guns from ending up in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them.”

Watts is the founder of Moms Demand Action, a massive movement of anti-gun activists throughout every state. She’s ardently anti-National Rifle Association, pro-background checks, and pro-bans on guns she thinks are too big. Her organization calls Joe Biden and Kamala Harris “the strongest gun safety administration in U.S. history,” as the executive duo works to enact sweeping gun control measures.

Watts has also been completely silent on Hunter Biden’s reckless missing gun scandal. No mention of Hunter appears on the high-level activist’s Twitter account, despite it being days since the latest report on the Biden son surfaced last week, not to mention the wildly irresponsible and shady nature of the whole ordeal.

Hunter Biden, who has a known history of drug abuse, probably lied about it on a background check form to obtain a firearm, which then went missing after it ended up in a trash can near a high school. Secret Service agents may have tried to clean up and cover up the mess — and Watts, who wants to close “loopholes” and “stop guns from ending up in the hands of people who shouldn’t have them,” has nothing to say about it?

Watts is in good company. The Democratic Party is teeming with firearm opponents champing at the bit to get as many guns as possible out of the hands of average citizens — such as the more than 16 million semi-automatic sporting rifles owned by law-abiding Americans — and to make the remaining guns as hard to acquire and ineffective as possible through universal background checks, bans on certain magazines, and other measures that would render the Second Amendment a relic of the past.

Biden and Harris are in her camp, as are the countless Democrats and media mouthpieces who compulsively seize on every mass shooting to advance their political agendas and earn gun-control brownie points with special interest groups, all while victims’ bodies are still warm.

Meanwhile, while well-connected leftists and other elites break the gun laws our country already has in place, Watts and her class look the other way. It’s inconvenient to deal with the fact that gun laws didn’t stop the president’s troubled son from probably lying to get one and then losing track of it near a school. These activists seem wholly unbothered by the fact that we aren’t even enforcing the gun laws we already have.

The left and ruling class’s lack of interest in Hunter is reminiscent of how they treated David Gregory when, on national television, the host of “Meet The Press” flashed a 30-round-capacity magazine, despite anything over 10 rounds being prohibited in the District of Columbia. Here was Gregory, going toe to toe with NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre, and preaching at his opponent about the dangers of high-capacity magazines while holding one in violation of D.C. law.

Gregory was never prosecuted. Although D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan insisted his office took the responsibility of prosecuting such offenses “very seriously,” he let Gregory off the hook because “under all of the circumstances here a prosecution would not promote public safety in the District of Columbia nor serve the best interests of the people of the District to whom this office owes its trust.”

The message reeks of elitism: We can handle our guns, but you can’t handle yours. Left-wing celebrities never get prosecuted for violating left-wing gun laws. And Hunter Biden won’t be prosecuted either. He won’t even be questioned or investigated.



Hunter Biden Must Be Investigated
It isn’t for lack of probable cause to inquire. Not counting the other times the Biden son has been let off the hook for his scandals, the missing gun incident alone is ripe for investigation and almost assuredly prosecution.


Biden’s ATF Pick Will Be Compromised
President Biden will soon be choosing a nominee to head the ATF, the law enforcement agency within the Department of Justice that issues the background check forms on which Hunter denied drug use. It’s also the same agency that regulates firearm sales, transportation, and possession of firearms and ammo, meaning a director hostile to firearms would not only pose a threat to the Second Amendment, with the full force of the federal government behind him, but the installment of a left-wing director would also result in Hunter Biden off the hook once again, recklessly flouting firearm laws with impunity.




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