President Joe Biden will announce the creation of the first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention on Friday, fulfilling a key demand of gun safety activists as legislation remains stalled in Congress, according to two people with direct knowledge of the White House’s plans.
Stefanie Feldman, a longtime Biden aide who previously worked on the Domestic Policy Council, will play a leading role, the people said.
Greg Jackson, executive director of the Community Justice Action Fund, and Rob Wilcox, the senior director for federal government affairs at Everytown for Gun Safety, are expected to hold key roles in the office alongside Feldman, who has worked on gun policy for more than a decade and still oversees the policy portfolio at the White House. The creation of the office was first reported by The Washington Post.
Oh, man. Can you imagine the misery of being appointed to this post? Literally half of the government would hate and despise you and would look for ways to undercut you just to have an extra talking point while they stand in the hall talking to Fox News. And to top it off, what could you actually do to affect change? I sympathize with the poor workers of this office.
So…department of education?
Or the EPA, or the CDC, or the IRS, or…
You’d be surprised by how much oil companies hate the DOT.
What next, the FAA and FCC?
Also knowing that you’re guaranteed to be “downsized” on the first day of the next party change in the White House.
And imagine how much security you’ll have to hire to keep yourself from getting shot.
I suspect anyone worth their weight in political salt should be cognizant of the statement you made, or at least, we hope so. Do we get a Shark who uses his/her post to create new and exciting ways to fuck the American people again? Or do we get a dunce/mouthpiece that just goes with the lobby money flow?
Violent crime doesn’t end with guns, nor did it start with them. we humans are continually creating new and insane ways to vaporize each other. If we ever figure out magnetic/kinetic weaponry or personalized laser rifles like in Akira then we are gonna wish we stopped at guns, sadly.
but this post goes literally against the ~500 billion USD America spends on its military. so…what do?
It’s just a job.
Nazi’s said that too. strange how that statement doesn’t fly in the modern world.
Wanting to prevent civilian gun violence makes you a Nazi?
check out the nuremberg trials. the statement “I was just doing my orders” “it was just a job” did not pardon those who murdered all the jews.
this is not about guns this is about culpability. i want you to tell me the plan for removing guns from this world, without getting upset. tell me how we do that.
if you don’t have a direct answer, guess what. guns are here to stay for your entire life, mine too. and no that doesn’t mean we do nothing ,it means being mad about it doesn’t change things. actions, strategies, do.
Your response to someone noting that working for this office has inherent risks due to gun nuts existing and someone responding with “it’s just a job” is to compare gun regulations to the Holocaust. You just followed up a sentence where you said this isn’t about guns with two questions about guns. I think you either don’t understand what the Nazis did or you’re arguing in bad faith. My guess is both.
Also, I don’t have to have a solution to gun violence to point out you’re making a stupid and dangerous argument. Calling people who work on gun safety Nazis in response to someone noting that gun nuts make their job dangerous proves the point.
you do not have a solution. that’s what i sifted from that diatribe.
I don’t think you understand.
People saying Nazis were just doing they’re job are doing that to alleviate them of any responsibility of their work.
I’m saying it’s just a job to highlight how these people probably don’t care about what they’re doing so long as they’re getting paid. As in, who cares if a bunch of strangers hate you so long as you’re getting paid. That’s actually par for the course for a lot of work.
It’s more than a job. its power and authority and can and will likely be wielded to do harm. if the appointed representative is a human being, great! Awesome! but…when in history do we get the exceptionally good person to the average political grifter?
Half?
How few people do you think work for the government?