Pirate's Cove

He made this pronouncement at 330pm Wednesday. What was he doing the rest of the day? He schedule doesn’t say. I guess it takes a while for the meds to kick in

Biden renews call for assault weapons ban a year after Uvalde massacre

President Joe Biden renewed his call for a ban on assault weapons as he and his wife Jill held a White House event on Wednesday to mourn the 21 victims shot dead at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, one year ago.

The May 24, 2022, massacre, in which an 18-year-old gunman opened fire with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle inside Robb Elementary School, killing 19 children and two teachers, marked the deadliest U.S. school shooting in almost a decade.

The assault ended when police officers who had waited more than an hour to storm in and directly confront the gunman – even as children hiding inside repeatedly called emergency-911 for help – finally charged into the classroom and shot the suspect dead.

Law enforcement’s response to the Uvalde school attack has been widely viewed as disastrous.

Many people, including myself, are still wondering where he obtained the thousands and thousands of dollars needed for all that he purchased, and wonder why the ATF did nothing when alerted to all the quick purchases.

But, I’ll tell you what: let’s ban the Secret Service and all law enforcement and military who are tasked with protecting Biden, Harris, the White House, Congress, all the federal buildings, and all the appointed Executive Office leaders from carrying any of the weapons Biden wants banned, along with all the actual military grade ones which are automatic. They can only carry rifles with no pistol grips, no flash suppressors, no extendable stocks, no foregrips, and the magazines can only hold 5 rounds. That’s fair, right? If they can do this for 4 years, that we can try a 10 year ban for citizens, which would sunset.

It’s also weird that Biden has really had nothing to say about the wackjob who rammed the fence. You’d think, after all the yammering Biden has done about “white supremacy”, that he’d mention a guy with a Nazi flag

Driver of U-Haul that rammed White House gate is not a U.S. citizen, prosecutors say

The man accused of ramming a U-Haul truck into barriers near the White House earlier this week isn’t a U.S. citizen, authorities said Wednesday.

Sai Varshith Kandula, a 19-year-old from suburban St. Louis, wore an orange jail-issued jumpsuit in his brief courtroom appearance — his first since the Monday incident — when prosecutors requested pre-trial detention.

A government prosecutor told the court that Kandula is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident.

But later on Wednesday, a Department of Justice official clarified the open-court remarks and said Kandula does hold a green card for lawful, permanent U.S. residency.

And, suddenly, the government is clamming up about him. It’s thought that he is most likely from the nation of India, based on his links to that community. Some are wondering if part of any plea deal will be simply deportation. What’s the Vegas odds that he’ll be deported before he even goes to court? Heck, quietly deported by the end of Monday, being a holiday weekend? If so, we’ll know the fix is in.