Just received a nice email from Joe Biden

[c&rlover]

Interesting to me that this just popped back up out of the blue.Text as follows:

Twenty years ago President Clinton signed the Brady Bill into law.

That law said that if you want to purchase a firearm from a federally licensed dealer in this country, you have to get a background check first. It was a historic piece of legislation -- one that's kept 1.5 million of the wrong people from getting their hands on a firearm in the last 14 years.

But in the wake of the tragedy in Newtown -- a year ago this month -- we know we've got to keep working to build on that progress.

And so even after a minority of Senators blocked commonsense legislation to reduce gun violence this spring, we're pushing forward.

President Obama laid out 23 executive actions to make sure the Administration took essential and rapid steps to save lives while respecting our Second Amendment rights. And since January, we've completed or made significant progress on all of them.

President Obama is keeping his word to make sure our families and communities are safe. See the progress we've made.

Those 23 executive actions are keeping guns out of dangerous hands. They're providing support for communities to hire school resource officers. And they're reducing the stigma around mental illness.

Now, it's not enough to take these steps on our own -- we still need Congress to pass comprehensive legislation to reduce gun violence. We need expanded background checks, and we need to create serious penalties for gun trafficking. There is no question that these kinds of measures would protect our kids and keep our communities safer.

No parent should ever face the horror of the scene at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Or a movie theater in Aurora. Or a temple in Oak Creek. Or the campus at Virginia Tech.

We've seen too much gun violence as a country. And if there's even one thing we can do to save a life, it is our most sacred duty to try.

That's where I stand. And you have my word that the President and I are doing everything we can to make sure no parent loses their child to gun violence.

Take a look at the progress we've made:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/Reducing-Gun-Violence

Thank you,

Joe

[JAKIII]

what... where... how did you get on Joe's email list?

p.s. aside from his predictable 2A views, Joe would totally be a great guy to throw beers back with in a bar.

[c&rlover]

what... where... how did you get on Joe's email list?

p.s. aside from his predictable 2A views, Joe would totally be a great guy to throw beers back with in a bar.

I signed up for the White House email list awhile back. I get all kinds of junk.

[sigsauer357]

They are such relentless bastards, fuck him.

[johnfritz]

... Joe would totally be a great guy to throw beers back with in a bar.

Until it came time to settle the tab.

[TaePo]

"And if there's even one thing we can do to save a life, it is our most sacred duty to try."

This is only one part of a complete equation. If saving life, being alive or surviving were enough, there would be no conflict. Slaves of any sort would never rise up against their masters, people and their station in life would never improve; as a society and individuals we would stagnate.

As we are well aware, criminals and tyranny could run rampant (sooner or later it will) without opposition.

Without liberty and freedom my life, your life, or that life would not be worth saving. Unfortunately, self-defense is inexorably linked to guaranteeing that freedom and liberty of self expression and self determination.

We could equate it to physics and the conservation of matter and energy; you can't get something from nothing like some magical perpetual motion machine. And if you believe in any such device, you are misunderstanding the concept, being fooled by someone more knowledgeable, or fooling yourself.

But I preach to the choir. I only mention it as a different perspective and the possibility the other side occasionally will find our threads.

[beefcakeb0]

Such boiler plate rhetoric, at least 1/3 of those statements are misleading, misrepresented or just flat out lies.

[Berks_Iraq_Vet]

Biden is fucking retarded.

[theshadow]

p.s. aside from his predictable 2A views, Joe would totally be a great guy to throw beers *AT* in a bar.

Fixed it for you

[Gunowner99]

Can you return to sender? ;-)