{"id":3136,"date":"2024-04-15T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T16:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2024-04-15T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T16:43:19","slug":"pa-stop-gun-violence-task-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3136","title":{"rendered":"PA: Stop Gun Violence Task Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Gun Violence Task Force up for Vote on 4\/17\/23<\/h2>\n<p>The radical Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee continue their assault against your constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>HB 483 is up for a vote in the PA House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, April 17th.\u00a0This bill would create \u201cGun Violence Task Forces\u201d statewide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gun violence task forces are cesspools for spawning and popularizing anti-gun propaganda. These task forces single out gun crime from other violent crimes, further stigmatizing gun ownership. It\u2019s the underlying crime that matters, not the instrument used to perpetrate it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Metrics\u00a0<span class=\"o-dataheader-unit\">tied to the bill<\/span>\u00a0could allow the\u00a0<span class=\"o-dataheader-unit\">establishment of &#8220;Gun Violence Task Forces&#8221; in the majority of Pennsylvania&#8217;s counties.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Data from 2016-2020 shows that we might end up with Gun Violence Task Forces in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">every<\/span>\u00a0county shown in pink and red in the image below.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not all.\u00a0The bill allows for federal agencies to cooperate with the task forces. That could mean\u00a0allowing the ATF into a MAJORITY of our counties using YOUR tax dollars to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Besides Gun Violence Task Forces being a propaganda tool for gun prohibitionists, they are ineffective!\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Philadelphia established its Gun Violence Task Force in 2006, but despite that, their murder rate skyrocketed to its highest level in 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why you must contact your state representative (by filling out the form above) to tell the House Judiciary Committee to vote NO on HB 483. Let them know that this bill is nothing more than another attempt at backdoor gun control.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.org\/pa04152024\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff\ufeff Gun Violence Task Force up for Vote on 4\/17\/23 The radical Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee continue their assault against your constitutional rights. HB 483 is up for a vote in the PA House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, April 17th.\u00a0This bill would create \u201cGun Violence Task Forces\u201d statewide. Gun violence task forces are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2a-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}