Vice President Joe Biden continued his series of meetings to craft a gun agenda today by meeting with representatives of the video gaming industry to talk about portrayals of violence.
The money quotes, from Biden’s remarks beforehand:
“We know that it is — there is — there is no silver bullet.”
“Quite frankly, we don’t even know whether some of the things people think impact on this actually impact on it or not.”
“We will be meeting with technology experts, because, to overstate the case, it would — there’s a lot that could change if, for example, every gun purchase could only be fired by the person who purchased it, because they literally would be unable to be fired.”
“I come to this meeting with no judgment.”
“And so I’m going to be submitting to the president a proposal as to how to proceed. I’m shooting for Tuesday.”
“We want a targeted proposal. We’re not taking a scatter-gun approach”
“Our cross-hairs are on doing something meaningful”
“Once we’ve sent the rounds downrange, we’ll hopefully have some positive feedback and adjust our aim”
“We hope to hit the bullseye with this one, I tell ya…”
He certainly plays a lot of Halo, isn’t he?
I think Joe is learning you just can’t parachute into a situation…
I don’t think Joe is capable of learning.
Biden is the primary author of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, also known as AWB ’94. He is not new to the issue, and does not deserve the benefit of the doubt- where he stands on the subject was made clear long ago.
A long time ago a Philadelphia Newscaster had to read the line “The War on Drugs got a shot in the arm today…”
Joe Biden is not a brilliant man by any stretch – but I think he and Obama share the same the same smart-a$$ and sometimes macabre sense of humor. Those remarks were calculated IMO.
“I’m of two minds about psychosis.”
Shooting for Tuesday hey? That’s straight shooting Joe for you. Didn’t what’s her name, the thriller from Wasilla, Alaska, say something about shooting for vice president and get into all sorts of trouble for speaking in violent metaphors?
As many times as Joe has put his feet in his mouth, it’s a wonder he hasn’t choked to death before now.