Remember writing reports in school with a minimum word count? You’d count every word, find ways to make phrases longer, add extra adjectives and unnecessary phrases. Anything to pad that word count out.
Why? Usually because you didn’t really have anything to say about the subject that you were writing about.
Now, you probably laugh about those reports from when you were in school, but I’m sure that it was torture for your teacher to read through something so boring, repetitive, and lacking in thought or information (it can’t have been just my reports that were like that, can it?).
Kind of like listening to a speech by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Boring, repetitive, and saying absolutely nothing of substance.
And it’s no different when she’s talking about guns. A writer going by Larry Z writes,
This week, Harris was in Atlanta and as part of her trip, she stopped by a summit hosted by the Rocket Foundation.
What is the Rocket Foundation? It’s a non-profit created by a local rapper that works, in part, to reduce gun-related violence. A worthy goal no doubt.
But, as you can imagine, Harris did not address the elephant in the room during her entire, almost, 30-minute Q&A.
She regurgitated a lot of White House platitudes about the “cowards” who support the “gun lobbyists” and the putative evils of so-called “assault weapons” but did nothing to call out the fact that gangs and drugs are the primary driver of violence that affects black people. Specifically, young black men.
That’s right, Harris blamed a group (legal gun owners) who have a lower crime rate than even law enforcement officers instead of placing the blame on where gun violence is actually concentrated: gangs and drug users/dealers.
The fact of the matter is, though, that Harris, along with Biden’s Department of Justice, doesn’t really care about the root causes of gun violence. If they did, they would be going after drug dealers as hard as Biden’s DOJ has gone after January 6th protesters and people praying in front of abortion clinics (and they’ve been going after those two groups hard).
No, for the Biden administration, gun violence isn’t actually something that they want to solve. It’s a convenient topic to get a particular group of uninformed, emotionally-driven voters (anti-2A zealots) mobilized and voting Democrat.
And it’s just disgusting to watch.