The following is in response to Karen Rubin’s Dec.18, 2020 View Point, “Biden must Tackle gun reform in first 100 days.:

Now that the Progressives and Marxists tied the hands of law enforcement under the guise of police reform and implemented policies such as cashless bail, they want to make it almost impossible for law-abiding citizens to protect their families and property from the criminal elements of society and their enablers in government. Progressives and Marxists do this while intentionally ignoring the following inconvenient facts:
Political Editors: 90 percent of Guns Used in Crime Obtained Illegally — The Patriot Post
“A DOJ report finds that the vast majority of guns used in criminal activity were obtained illegally.”
Significantly, Guns.com notes, “When it came to retail sources such as gun shows, flea markets, firearm stores, and pawn shops, only about 10 percent said they were able to obtain their weapons from such outlets through purchases or trades. Of those, the majority reported that a background check was conducted as part of the sale, although in many cases they did not purchase it under their own name.” And, in fact, “only about 1 percent of prisoners who used a firearm during their crime had obtained it through a retail sale.”
These latest statistics prove once again that the problem of preventing criminals from obtaining firearms is not solved via the creation of more laws that limit the ability of law-abiding Americans to purchase a firearm.”
Source and Use of Firearms Involved in Crimes: Survey of Prison Inmates, 2016 (Bureau of Justice)
“An estimated 287,400 prisoners had possessed a firearm during their offense. Among these, more than half (56%) had either stolen it (6%), found it at the scene of the crime (7%), or obtained it off the street or from the underground market (43%). Most of the remainder (25%) had obtained it from a family member or friend, or as a gift. Seven percent had purchased it under their own name from a licensed firearm dealer.”
Homicide is a “devastating plague” on black communities, and it is time we stop ignoring it | COMMENTARY – Baltimore Sun
“Many African-American communities are under siege by black gun-toting terrorists. Children cannot play in their yards and the elderly can no longer sit on their porches. At a recent town hall, a young black woman could not understand why her brother’s killer had still remained free on the street awaiting trial for a previous gun violation. Many of the people accused of murder in the city frequently have existing gun violations. This is a cycle that must be broken.
Now is the time to reconcile, black pride, civil liberties and civil rights with the need for safe black communities.“
‘How Did We Not Know?’ Gun Owners Confront a Suicide Epidemic – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
“The toll of self-inflicted gun deaths has led to an unusual alliance between suicide-prevention advocates and gun-rights proponents.
Gun violence kills about 40,000 Americans each year, but while public attention has focused on mass shootings, murders and accidental gun deaths, these account for little more than one-third of the nation’s firearms fatalities. The majority of gun deaths are suicides — and just over half of suicides involve guns.
According to national health statistics, 24,432 Americans used guns to kill themselves in 2018, up from 19,392 in 2010.”
If anyone from the North Shore needs proof of the failure of Progressive/Marxist-inspired police and bail reforms, they have to look no further than NYC.
New York City Shootings Surpass 2019 Year-End Totals, City Leaders Demand Community Help (newsweek.com)

“According to the latest data from the NYPD, July’s crime figures reveal similar findings, with the number of murder, burglary and gun violence victims soaring compared to last year.
In July 2020, there were 244 shootings in New York, a 177 percent increase from the 88 which occurred last July.
The number of people murdered increased by more than half to 54, while the number of burglaries increased from 989 last year to 1,297 in July 2020. The number of auto thefts also increased 53 percent from 583 to 892.”
In conclusion, fraudulent president elect Beijing Biden could not tackle his puppy dog let alone gun reform.

Walter J. Jaworski
New Hyde Park

Editors’ note:  Joseph Biden won the 2020 presidential election, which was certified by the Electoral College last week, with 7 million more votes than the tally for President Donald Trump.