As gun-control advocates celebrate, Second Amendment proponent says plan would put gun control lobby on the White House payroll.
Gun control advocates are celebrating in anticipation, and Second Amendment activists are decrying reports that President Joe Biden will announce the creation of a White House office of gun violence prevention on Friday.
According to published reports, the office will be staffed by gun control activists from Everytown for Gun Safety, the organization started by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Community Justice Action Fund.
“[This decision] is putting the gun prohibition lobby on the White House payroll,” Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, told The Epoch Times.
Neither Everytown for Gun Safety nor the White House responded to The Epoch Times’ requests for comment.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, gun control proponent David Hogg celebrated the reports as a victory.
“Young people and their families have been fighting for this for years. This office of gun violence prevention exists because #GenZ and #millennials voted and voted again–” Mr. Hogg wrote.
“Celebrate this win. It shows the difference politics can make.”
Aidan Johnston, Director of Federal Affairs for Gun Owners of America, told The Epoch Times that President Biden may be prepared to declare a public health emergency to implement gun control as New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham did.
“[The Community Justice Action Fund] agenda item number 2 is weaponizing an emergency to push gun control,” Mr. Johnston said.
“We are concerned that Biden will also make the concession to declare a gun violence emergency.”
He agreed with Mr. Gottlieb that the plan amounts to paying activists to find ways to deny Americans Constitutional rights.
“It’s un-American and in direct opposition to the Bill of Rights,” he stated.
Since President Biden was elected, gun control activists have pushed for such an office. While the President was praised for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) passed in June 2022 and hailed by gun control groups as the “most important gun safety legislation in 30 years,” he has publicly stated that “more needs to be done.”
