President Joe Biden has been vehemently anti-gun for decades. He's repeatedly argued that gun control is necessary to keep us safe. Of course, laws do nothing unless enforced, but it seems there's a limit to how far enforcement should go.
After all, Heaven forbid Hunter Biden be prosecuted for breaking federal gun control laws.
By now, you've all heard about Hunter getting pardoned. It's a blanket pardon that covers something like 11 years, including the time for the whole Burisma thing, but we know that it covered his conviction of violating, among other things, federal gun charges.
President Joe Biden on Sunday signed a “full and unconditional” pardon for his son Hunter, saying he “wrestled” with the decision but believed that “raw politics” had “infected” the process that led to the younger Biden’s criminal convictions on gun and tax charges.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” the president said in a statement.
The pardon grants Hunter Biden sweeping legal protection for any crime he “has committed or may have committed” over a nearly 11-year period, from Jan. 1, 2014, to Dec. 1, 2024.
The president made the announcement Sunday before getting on a plane to Angola. The decision is a complete 180 for the president, who repeatedly promised not to pardon his son or commute his prospective sentences. Just last month, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that “our answer stands, which is no.”
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“I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice,” Biden said in his statement. “I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”
This has been a recurring Democratic talking point since the first plea deal was tossed out. In it, Hunter would get a slap on the wrist on the tax evasion charges, and literally, everything else would be off the table, including the well-documented fact that he lied on his Form 4473, the paper you fill out when you buy a gun.
Others have been prosecuted for the exact same thing, but he was getting a pass.
The deal was tossed out, and a lot of us, myself included, were outraged that it was suggested in the first place. It wasn't because he was the president's son and I wanted to "get" Biden. It was because others had been jammed up over the exact same thing, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and Hunter was getting a walk because he was the president's son.
Now, he's getting a walk for the exact same reason, and the broad nature of the pardon means he'll walk on literally anything else he did during that time, including the influence peddling. Make no mistake, I believe Biden pardoned Hunter to avoid anyone digging into those allegations going forward and possibly implicating him further than they already have.
But, on the gun charges, we see two sets of rules.
On one hand, there are the rules you and I have to follow. If we screw up a Form 4473, we can't buy a gun – this happened to my father, a retired police officer and Navy veteran who had never even been charged with a misdemeanor, but he answered a question incorrectly – but Hunter can outright lie and any prosecution is going to be brushed off as politics.
Of course, nothing has changed from the thousand times he claimed he wouldn't pardon Hunter. It didn't suddenly become political. No, it was always on the agenda, but Biden just lied to the American people.
Because the rules don't apply to people like them. No one is above the law, you see, except for the Bidens.
At the end of the day, on guns, some animals really are more equal than others and we can all see it for ourselves.