Beltway Insider: Biden/Gun Control, Uvalde, COVID/Vaccine Totals, Shocking Inflation, Hinckley Released

President Biden addressed the nation this week after his second trip in as many weeks to communities plagued by gun violence and to explain to the American people, and Congress, the Second Amendment is not absolute.

The President's job approval rating, according to the website fivethirtyeight.com, for the period ending June 5, 2022 increased by 0.2% to 40.8% of those polled who approve of his effectiveness as President and those who disapprove of his effectiveness decreased by 0.2% to 54.% of those polled who disapprove of his effectiveness. A slight 3% of the population polled have no opinion. Ratings are calculated weekly.


Beltway Insider: Biden/Uvalde, Police Mishandling, Gun Control, Monkey Pox, COVID/Vaccine Totals, Ray Liotta


Biden Gun Control National Address

in a rare primetime address President Biden spoke on the double tragedy the nation had endured after his trip to Uvalde, Texas to mourn with those who mourn and grieve the loss of community members in Buffalo, a tragedy just days before that took ten lives and seemed swept up and lost in the horrific unfolding in Uvalde. innocence as those who died

Speaking directly to every American, and more to Congress and legislators across the nation who shield the sale of modified magazines and automatic weapons behind the Second Amendments, he said, "At the same time, the Second Amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute.  It was Justice Scalia who wrote, and I quote, "Like most rights, the right…" — Second Amendment — the rights granted by the Second Amendment are "not unlimited."  Not unlimited.  It never has been."

Biden, as President Obama's Vice President led the commission after the Sandy Hook tragedy, that had an eerie similarity to Uvalde, introducing twenty-three Executive Actions that should have informed every school district and more the community of gun owners and sellers across American. And still, another day, another tragedy.

Biden's addressed to the nation comes with an unwavering pursuit of removing the free for all of gun availability. His determination to resurrect, with modification, the 1993 Assault weapons bans, should have both sides of the aisle championing the cause that could, and more likely, will stop some, and as he said during his address, "I know that we can't prevent every tragedy.  But here's what I believe we have to do.  Here's what the overwhelming majority of the American people believe we must do.  Here's what the families in Buffalo and Uvalde, in Texas, told us we must do. We need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines."

Uvalde Buries it's Dead

Uvalde, Texas is approaching two weeks AT, a psychological term for After Tragedy. Two weeks AT, some of the flowers will be wilting at the makeshift memorial surrounding Robb Elementary school, the crush of media will slowly leave, heading to another city to cover another mass shooting or another horrific tragedy, leaving the town to mourn and grieve alone as they bury their dead. Twenty-two funerals in two weeks, in a town of 16,000 people. Two funerals a day, every day. That, also, will end. And all that will remain are the questions of Why? Why did you let our children die?

Police Abandon Duty

A federal investigation into the delayed response that resulted in 19 children and two teachers gunned down in their classrooms, appears to be an attempt to gloss over the realities with jargon and placate the families with the appearance of an investigation.

Early media reports indicate the judicial investigation will likely focus on the delayed response time, of more than 75 minutes, which allowed the shooter to taunt the victims before killing them, and he even brought music, from survivor accounts "I want them to die" music. The failure is clear with each young voice, each ten-year-old, that should be speaking about summer and plans, and software and the future, the failure of delayed response is the only reality that exists.

"The "critical incident review," requested by the Uvalde Police Department after parents, witnesses and Texas authorities faulted officers for waiting an hour before they entered a locked classroom to confront the gunman, will examine why that decision was made," NBC.com reported.

After the December 14, 2012, Sandy Hook massacre, one of the executive actions implemented included providing law enforcement authorities, first responders and school officials with proper training for armed attacks situations. And yet, here we are two weeks AT understanding that law enforcement, first responders and school officials were actually less prepared than that day when a shooter armed with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S, essentially an AR-15, shot his way into a Connecticut elementary school and killed 20 children and six educators.

Invoking biblical scripture, which is meant to give comfort, and reciting Romans 8:28 "all things work together for the good," is an attempt to dismiss the fathomless, abyss, that is now the soul of many. Not simply Uvalde, Buffalo, Parkland, Las Vegas, this list is so long, forgetting one tragedy seems like negating its injury, and not simply the lives lost, the wounded and injured, those left behind to pack up rooms, and belongings, and close a door on a life cut down and yet, it goes on. Even the shooter at the GOP softball game failed to rekindle the need to ban assault weapons.

As a Senator, President Biden led the 1993 Assault weapon ban and introduced legislation that at that time passed the House and Senate and for ten years, assault weapons were off the streets.

"We can vote to keep these deadly military-style assault weapons on the streets, where we know they have one purpose and one purpose only — killing other human beings," Biden said that evening in November 1993. "Or we can vote to take these deadly military-style assault weapons off our streets. The choice is that simple. The choice is that stark," The Washington Post reported.


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Shocking Mishandling

The narrative provided to the media in those early breaking hours that presented a scenario with determined effort to deflect blame for the massacre. American's have seen the same false narratives in many cases, especially those where police officers have shot unarmed African Americans. In Uvalde, there were no stereotypes to scapegoat.

Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo, who assumed control of the unfolding situation, made the determination that the situation had evolved from active shooter to barricaded suspect and told tactical team sin the hallway of the school to stand down.

Finding the truth, while trying to explain to the nation and the parents that outside of the realities, there is an actual other truth, is presenting a false narrative. There is only one truth: 21 are dead due to a delay in response.

All other narratives, changing gun laws, banning assault weapons, modifying the Second Amendment, civil and criminal actions are essentially smoke screens geared to pivot the thought process of the people from the facts to these other empty possibilities, that resonate throughout the nation, and the world, after these preventable catastrophic breeches in law enforcement.

Peggy Noonan, an Opinion Columnist for the Wall Street Journal, wrote of the Uvalde Police Scandal, "We can't let it settle in that the police can't be relied on to be physically braver than other people. An implicit agreement in going into the profession is that you're physically brave. I don't understand those saying with nonjudgmental empathy, "I'm not sure I would have gone in." It was their job to go in. If you can't cut it, then don't join and get the badge, the gun and the pension."

The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District meet last week, in its first meeting since the massacre, and while they could have called for District Police Chief Pete Arredondo resignation or presented other action, such as administrative leave, they failed to act.

Additional developments in the gross negligence narrative include the failure of Arredondo to arrive at the scene with a radio. He was unable to understand the consequences of his decisions has he had no information coming from other local law enforcement agencies. Without clear communication he was blind and willing to fully invest in his decision, even as it violated protocol, and violated the recent active shooting training, even at the cost of 21 lives.

His statements indicated that he believed he was dealing with a barricaded suspect in a hostage situation. And yet, negotiating with an armed suspect in a hostage situation means establishing communication with the suspect to secure the safety of the hostages and they were dead on entry, and the shooter's intentions clear as he shot through classroom windows as he moved to the open/closed door.

Vaccine Totals

Bloomberg.com has built a vaccine tracker which can be seen here. "In the US, 588 million doses have been given so far. During the last week, shots were administered at an average rate of 63,456 doses a day," Bloomberg.com reported.

Coronavirus Totals

Mandates have been altered or lifted in most urban areas with limited exceptions, and the population is encouraged to maintain personal protective practices. Masks are optional and tolerated. Vaccines and boosters are still considered the most effective agents against contracting the Coronavirus.

For the one-week period ending June 5, 2022, coronavirus cases globally increased by 2,996,298 new confirmed cases, bringing the total of confirmed cases worldwide to 531,619,323 people with a total worldwide death toll of 6,294,919 deaths, and a 7-day death rate increase of 9,748. (Data from The New York Times).

COVID US Totals

Infections rates in the United States are also on the rise. For the seven-day period ending June 5, 2022, the total confirmed cases rose to 84,661,832 people with new confirmed cases increasing by 739,828 with a 7-day average of 105,689 cases per day. The coronavirus has claimed 1,005,131 total deaths, adding 1,972 more deaths over the 7-day period. (Data from The New York Times).

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Protecting for gain of function knowledge only aides those who initiated the constitutional violations. It does nothing to combat the homegrown terrorism or the narcissistic above the law belief. The best obtainable version of the truth. And the truth is so bizarre you can't even wrap your mind around it.


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Inflation Spikes

Americans are reeling from sticker shock, as inflation has tightened its grip and spreading its tentacles to reach into every area of consumer life. The coronavirus pandemic, which derailed many consumer-oriented businesses, resulted in less competition, in some areas as businesses were forced to close.

While the White House Press Secretary Karrine Jean-Pierre presented the administration's 'we feel your pain' response to several questions posed by the White House press corps, the facts remain, the European inflation is up 8.1 present, and America's are going to feel the squeeze at the grocery store and the gas pump.

A trip to the grocery store for a family of four will hit consumers hard followed by exponentially increasing gasoline prices that have shot up .20 cents in that last two weeks. Gasoline on average will take $75.00 to fill a 15-gallon tank in some states.

Over the past three months fast moving consumer goods, which usually sell quickly at relatively low cost have skyrocketed, leaving grocery store shoppers reeling as favorite food items have increased by dollars, not cents. The latest in the long line of gauge the shopper to make up for the pandemic is Baby Formula, which is one of those consumer items that are always needed. Radical action to deal with the squeeze on the consumer is needed by the Biden Administration before midterms arrive.

Gasoline prices, which are approaching an unheard-of National Average of $5.00, have topped that in 19 states including California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii, in the Midwest Illinois and in the Northeast Pennsylvania, New Jersey and all of the North Atlantic states except for New York, which is quickly moving to that tipping point. Are we returning to the days of important Saudi or OPEC oil, if it will ease the pump prices, consumers will resoundingly agree.


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Reagan Would be Assassin Hinckley Released

John W. Hinckley, Jr., who has been incarcerated in a mental hospital for the last forty years for his attempted assassination of President Ronald Regan, and the murder of White House Press secretary James Brady, will be unconditionally released June 15, 2022.

"Hinckley was 25 when he shot Reagan, White House press secretary James Brady and two others with six exploding "Devastator" bullets from a .22-caliber pistol on March 30, 1981. A federal jury found Hinckley not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982, finding that he acted out of a deranged obsession to impress the actress Jodie Foster, setting off a historic debate that narrowed the insanity defense," The Washington Post reported.

This release, after a rolling succession of mass shootings and the availability of automatic weapons, seems contrary to the best interest of the nation, as the availability of choices, access and internet freedoms that instigate, radicalize, and indoctrinate those without previously known mental issues will now be a mouse click away.

U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman and U.S. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kacie M. Weston, both spoke of Hinckley's rehabilitation before they granted his unconditional release.

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