President Joe Biden was interrupted by a protester during a Monday speech touting the Safer Communities Act.
This wasn’t a pro-Second Amendment protester.
Rather, the man who interrupted Biden’s speech chastised him for failing to do enough to advance gun control.
Biden told the protester to sit down when he rose and spoke during the White House speech, only to immediately tell the crowd to “let him speak.”
President Biden to protester: "Sit down. You'll hear what I have to say." pic.twitter.com/FZvMZoLam5
— CSPAN (@cspan) July 11, 2022
Manuel Oliver, a man whose son was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in 2018, was later identified as the protester.
Manuel Oliver — who lost his son in Parkland — was the man who just interrupted President Biden's speech on gun control.
Oliver all but stated he would do this on CNN hours earlier with cable news carnival barker Joe Walsh. pic.twitter.com/FCo3pFikWy
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 11, 2022
Oliver questioned Biden’s gun control bona fides in a CNN interview before the White House event.
Democrats were largely limited from ramming through more extremist gun control proposals due to the even split of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate.
Manuel Oliver to CNN on what he'd tell Biden today: "It's been a while that I've been calling out…using the word celebration, getting together, is like we're going to a party, to a wedding…it's not…enough…There was no reason for this event to be called as it's called[.]" pic.twitter.com/UiZ5ECA7qy
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 11, 2022
It was not immediately clear what Oliver was saying when he interrupted Biden’s speech. However, NBC later reported that Oliver said, “We have to do more than that,” in response to Biden claiming that his administration had made “meaningful progress on dealing with gun violence.”
He soon allowed Biden to continue. The Democrat went on to tout his support of the original 1994 ban of so-called assault weapons, demanding a new version of the gun control law.
The Safer Communities Act passed with support from fifteen Senate Republicans and appropriates federal funding to states to create their own red flag laws.
Other provisions in the law place more scrutiny on gun buyers under the age of 21 and increase penalties for straw purchases of weapons.
The June law also requires some private citizens involved in the sale of firearms to register as a federal firearms licensee.
Speakers during the event called for more gun control, including a new ban on firearms such as the AR-15.
UNTIL CONGRESS PASSES A BILL THAT AFFORDS THE DEATH [ENALTY FOR ALL MIRDERS, NOTHING WILL CHANGE, MORE GUN LAWS NOT THE ANSWER, DEATH IS THE ANSWER. MENTAL OR NOT GOING DOWN.
He was probably a plant to make it seem like someone is in favor of gun control.
His is the Father of a Parkland Victims….He has all the Right….
So what? He has a right to take away the God given right of someone to defend themselves? Schools have become killing fields for three reasons:
1) They are generally gun free zones which, ironically, fails to stop lawbreakers from carrying weapons into the classrooms and shooting until they get their fill or someone from the outside stops them with an incapacitating shot.
2) The left has worked very hard to indoctrinate multiple generations into the mindset that human life is not sacred. Abortion and euthanasia send the message that life is cheap. Evolution destroys the ability to claim that human life is somehow more precious than say a pig or deer.
3) Kids are taught that there are no consequences for their actions. If you miss a deadline in school, they extend the deadline. If you get into a fight, you get a three day vacation instead of correction of the behavior. Minority students are given a pass on bad behavior so that justice isn’t “racist.” Then you graduate and meet a court system that perpetuates the same irresponsibility with plea bargains, lenient sentences for repeat offenders and justifying lawlessness because the perps were underprivileged or oppressed.
Well said!
We have all the Right to Protect our GOD Given Right to Protect ourselves from Crazy Liberals and Corrupt DemocRATS !! .. Come Take It !! FJB !! ” The Tree of Liberty MUST be Refreshed from Time to Time with the Blood of Patriots and TYRANTS ” … Thomas Jefferson. ” FJB ” !!!!!!
We need to vote all of those RINO Republicans out that stabbed all of their constituents in the back…I know I can’t wait to do so.
WE HAVE LOT OF LYING CROOKED POLITICIANS, WITHIN OUR “CORRUPT” GOVERNMENT. THIS NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED ASAP. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH WITH ALL THE ANTI-AMERICANS WITHIN OUR GOVERNMENT CONGRESS JUDICIAL DEPTS.
Hooray awesome brave move