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On Gun Crime, the Problem Is Named ‘Biden’

Then-vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter attend an NCAA basketball game in Washington, D.C., 2010. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

About 93 percent of what you need to know about our gun-control debate can be deduced from the following two facts:

First: Joe Biden’s presidential campaign boasted that “in 1993, he shepherded through Congress the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which established the background check system that has since kept more than 3 million firearms out of dangerous hands.”

Second: In 2018, Hunter Biden violated the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act that his father “shepherded through Congress” by lying on the application and was never charged for it — and never will be.

I’ll believe Democrats are serious about gun crime when Hunter Biden is charged for his gun crime.

Kevin D. Williamson is a former fellow at National Review Institute and a former roving correspondent for National Review.
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