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As the most rapidly-diversifying state in the country it recently became majority-minority Nevada should stay solid for Democrats, notes The Liberal Patriots Ruy Teixeira. But their winning margins there from 2008 to 2016 declined sharply from 12.5 to 2.4 points and stayed at 2.4 even as Dems gained nationally in 2020. The problem: Theyre losing working-class votes, including black and Hispanic ones. At risk is Catherine Cortez Mastos Senate seat, as voters are furious over jobs lost to pandemic lockdowns, gas prices and cultural issues including border security. Dropping the Title 42 rule and so boosting the illegal migrant surge may doom her: It seems top Democrats have still not absorbed the extent of their partys Hispanic and working class voter problems.

Rich countries pursuit of carbon neutrality at almost any cost limits economic opportunities for the worlds poor and poses serious geopolitical risks to the West, warns Jason De Sena Trennert at The Wall Street Journal. Fact is, exploration and production of fossil fuels have done more to benefit the lives of ordinary people than any other technological advance in history: Theres a strong correlation between the use of fossil fuel and life expectancy. Plus, as the Ukraine war shows, leaving these fuels in the ground can leave the West at the mercy of dictators, increasing the risk of atrocities. By contrast, easing regulations on oil and gas to flood the global market would do far more than any sanctions to stop Vladimir Putins barbarism.

Americas border security is about to go from terrible to the worst it has ever been, predicts Buck Sexton at Fox News. With the White Houses recently announced decision to end Title 42 Authority a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regulation that allowed a portion of illegal migrants to be expelled from U.S. soil during the COVID pandemic the ongoing flood of illegal migrants is about to turn into a tsunami. In fact, the feds estimate 18,000 illegal migrants [will be] apprehended at the southern border every day, with close to a million illegal migrant border crossings within six weeks. This will completely overwhelm the system. Unfortunately, this lawlessness will continue unless the Democrats are made to fear an electoral annihilation this November.

The investigation into Hunter Biden and his business ventures is rapidly developing and could soon become a mainstream election issue, writes Douglas E. Schoen at The Hill. As more information comes to light, the risk of this becoming a problem for the president is increasing. Theres already some circumstantial evidence that Joe Biden actively assisted his sons business ventures for the collective benefit of the Biden family. If its proven that President Biden was not only involved in but profited from Hunters business deals with Chinese state-owned firms, for example, it would be a politically calamitous development for the president and what is now likely a red wave election could turn into a massive blowout that is more substantial than anything seen in recent history.

Most comparisons of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler are overdrawn, observes John Gray at The New Statesman. Though the atrocities that are being perpetrated on his orders are mounting, Putin has not launched a colossal campaign of genocide as the Nazis did. His strategy in Ukraine which aims to subdue the country by laying waste to its cities is the same one he used in Syria. In their turn of mind, however, Hitler and Putin may have something in common something very dangerous. No longer only the kleptocrat he has been during much of his time in power, Putin seems ready to destroy his country in order to leave his mark on history.

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Murphy is leading a brigade of lawmakers and advocates pressing Biden to take unilateral action on guns. In a March 25 letter, previously unreported, Murphy and 127 other Democratic lawmakers demanded that Biden move expeditiously on three fronts:

Issue new executive orders on federal gun licensing requirements and create a centralized task force to address gun violence.

And name a new nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Finalize a regulation to crack down on so-called ghost guns before Democrats potentially lose control of Congress.

Its been a year to the day since Biden gave his first White House address on gun violence prevention, announcing what is viewed as his most significant executive action to date on guns from the Rose Garden. But a year later, the ATF regulation he unveiled, which would impose background checks and new requirements for online sales of ghost guns untraceable firearms that lack serial numbers and are constructed from online kits hasnt been finalized.

The White House has said the rule will be finished this month and a source familiar with the administrations planning said an announcement on the regulation is expected as early as Monday. Some Democratic lawmakers have been invited to a Monday event with the president on gun violence reduction, according to a Hill aide.

Though Murphy has been in frequent touch with White House officials about gun safety, he hasnt received a response to the missive, just an acknowledgment of receipt. Meanwhile, gun homicides continue to accelerate. On Sunday, six people were killed in a mass shooting in Sacramento, Calif.

With seven months until the midterms, and an expected shift in control of at least one chamber to Republicans, Democrats are increasingly turning to the White House for answers. GOP opposition to major gun control legislation makes executive actions one of the few tools left to Biden.

Democrats and gun control advocates argue that their voters need to see some sign of progress before the election and executive actions like expanding background checks and installing a director of gun violence could help motivate them to turn out at the polls.

Biden has sought to tackle the rise in crime and gun violence with what the White House describes as a holistic approach: Increasing funding for cops, bolstering community violence prevention programs and removing violent offenders from the streets. But key to those efforts, lawmakers say, is having a permanent ATF director, whose job responsibilities include cracking down on illegal and trafficked guns.

POLITICO reported this week that Biden is expected to announce a new nominee to lead the ATF as soon as this month after his first pick, David Chipman, failed to secure enough support in September.

Democrats including Murphy dont understand the holdup.

Many of us have been willing to have patience when it comes to the ATF director and the regulatory process but I dont have the luxury of patience any longer, he said.

Murphy has also changed his mind about a proposal to name a gun violence prevention czar. Six months ago, the senator was sympathetic to the White House argument that it was unnecessary and that the issue could be handled by the Domestic Policy Council led by Susan Rice. Now, he thinks that wont cut it.

The President should think seriously about a specific, high-level experienced individual to oversee anti-gun violence policy, Murphy said. I dont know that theres a lot of evidence that the current structure is delivering results.

A number of gun safety organizations agree: Theyve pressed the administration since Biden took office to create such a position, and now Democratic lawmakers are increasingly getting behind the idea.

House Democrats led by Reps. Joe Neguse of Colorado and Lucy McBath of Georgia are circulating a new letter to send to Biden asking him to create an interagency task force to prevent gun violence and to appoint a director of gun violence prevention to lead it, according to a Democratic aide. The new appointee would help coordinate anti-gun violence efforts across the federal government, with the goal of reducing firearm deaths by half over the next decade.

Theres no doubt we need stronger leadership thats focused on reducing gun violence, including an effective ATF director and executive action to crack down on ghost guns, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in a statement to POLITICO when asked about Bidens actions to date.

The White House pushed back on the idea its moving at a slow pace, arguing that Biden has taken more executive actions on gun violence than any prior president.

The Biden administration has made historic progress, which I would stack up against any previous presidency, said Stefanie Feldman, deputy assistant to the president and senior adviser to the director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Feldman defended the White Houses strategy of deploying the DPC to coordinate the administrations gun policies interagency task force is a fine word for it, she said.

There are no policies that are going at a slower pace because of the structure we have now or that would be going at a faster pace if we had a different structure, she said in an interview Friday. We wake up every day feeling the urgency of this issue.

In addition to the ghost gun rule, Biden has focused on violence intervention programs, securing $50 million for them in a March-passed bill to fund the government. That same bill included a $47 million funding increase for the ATF. Biden has also created strike forces at the Justice Department to crack down on illegal firearms trafficking, but advocates say its unclear what progress has been made. In February, on his way to New York City to highlight his gun violence prevention efforts, Biden and the DOJ also launched an initiative to train a national team of prosecutors to charge people who use ghost guns in crimes.

Democratic lawmakers largely believe Biden is committed to the issue, but they want to see him use the full breadth of his powers.

Action right away is critically important, because some of these executive orders will be challenged in the courts, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). The more time that passes before he issues them, the longer it will take for them to help save lives.

Feldman did not answer specific questions about future executive orders but said that the White House is pursuing a range of measures as it works to determine Bidens legal authority.

In particular, Democrats like Blumenthal and Murphy are worried that the longer the ghost gun rule takes, the more likely a future GOP majority in Congress will use the powers of the Congressional Review Act to revoke it. Similarly, once the rule is enacted, its expected to face challenges from GOP-led states that have made their opposition known. Some advocates pinned the holdup on acting ATF head Marvin Richardson, but the White House contends its moved faster on the ghost gun regulation compared to others.

Still, Democratic lawmakers say, every day of delay means more gun kits and untraceable components sold.

On Friday, advocacy groups March for Our Lives, Guns Down America and Change the Ref will issue a report card on Bidens work to combat gun violence, giving him a D+ overall.

Some Democratic lawmakers, however, say Congress not the president is to blame. House-passed gun control bills have stalled in the Senate, where a majority of Democrats complain the party missed an opportunity to scuttle the filibuster to move Bidens agenda. Efforts in the chamber to find a long-shot compromise to strengthen background checks have also fallen apart. As Republicans oppose Bidens legislative proposals to reinstate the assault weapons ban or remove limits on lawsuits against gun manufacturers, theyve attempted to pin a rise in crime on Biden and Democrats ahead of the November election.

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) praised the administration for crafting model legislation for states to implement red flag laws, which allow courts to bar people who present a danger to themselves or others from accessing a firearm.

But Im frustrated by state legislatures. Im frustrated by Congress, she said. The House has moved. The Senate is not interested in saving lives.

Gun deaths hit a record high in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available up 14 percentage points from the year prior. Some 45,222 people died from gun-related injuries with suicides accounting for more than half, according to a Pew Research accounting of federal data.

Over the last year and half we havent had a Sandy Hook or a Las Vegas or an Orlando, Murphy said. But the absence of the 25- or 50-person mass shooting doesnt mask the fact that daily gun murder rates are exponentially higher than they were before for the pandemic.

I dont know why we dont have outrage about that and that outrage needs to come not just from me and from anti-gun violence groups, he said. It needs to come from the administration.

Nicholas Wu contributed to this report.

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The co-hosts of ABC's liberal daytime gabfest "The View" spent an entire segment of Wednesday's show railing against the Second Amendment and blaming it for gun violence across the U.S.

The segment, which began with Tuesday's attack by a gunman on the New York City subway, consisted of the liberal co-hosts lamenting laws being passed in Republican states allowing for concealed carry without a permit and claiming other Western countries don't experience levels of gun violence seen in the U.S. because they have no protections for gun rights.

The co-hosts of ABC's "The View" debate the Second Amendment during a segment on April 13, 2022. (Screenshot/ABC)

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"The usual allegations are being thrown around about the left being too soft on crime while at the same time, red states like Georgia are making it even easier to get guns," co-host Joy Behar said after mentioning the attack in New York City.

"This is a tragic and uniquely American problem, it seems. I dont understand why we cant solve this problem," she added, mentioning that guest co-host Julia Haart said to her before the show that other countries didn't have the same issues because "there aren't guns all over the place."

"Those countries do not have a Second Amendment and that's the difference," Behar said.

Haart claimed that the Second Amendment is "the problem" and that there is "almost no gun violence" in countries like the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.

"When you take guns away, you take away gun violence," she declared, to which Behar agreed and co-host Sunny Hostin said, "That's absolutely true."

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Guest co-host Alyssa Farah jumped in, arguing that there were "too many guns on the streets," but pointed to Democrats pushing "defund the police" policies as part of the reason for the rise in crime in cities across the U.S.

Hostin blamed Republicans for the rise in crime, citing their opposition to gun control measures proposed by Democrats. She then claimed that there were actually higher levels of gun violence in states and cities controlled by Republicans than in those run by Democrats.

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Farah pushed back by stating that the top ten cities with the highest crime rates were all Democrat-controlled.

The panel continued the discussion, with Hostin lamenting what she claimed was a lack of training for people handling guns without permits and Behar calling the notion that people in New York City could be allowed to carry a concealed firearm "insane."

Support for stricter gun laws has been going down, reaching its lowest point since 2014 last November with only 52% of Americans supporting the implementation of stricter gun control laws.

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President Joe Biden announced new regulations to curb the proliferation of so-called "ghost guns,"unserialized firearms made from kits.

Biden spoke of codifying a prohibition on manufacturing these firearms without serial numbers, requiring sellers to conduct a background check on prospective buyers, among other rules. He also detailed his desire to see assault weapons and high-capacity magazines banned.

Then the president invoked history to support his stance.

"From the very beginning, the Second Amendment didnt say you can own any gun you want, big as you want," Biden said at the press conference. "You couldnt buy a cannon when, in fact, the Second Amendment passed."

This isnt the first time Biden made such an assertion about the Second Amendment. Or even the second.

During his presidential campaign, he made a similar claim about cannon ownership in the Revolutionary War. We rated that False.

Then, in 2021, Biden said the Second Amendment "limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own." False again.

The Second Amendment did not place limits on individual ownership of cannons.

Historians have previously told PolitiFact that Biden mischaracterized the history of gun regulation and its ties to the Second Amendment.

The White House did not return PolitiFacts request for comment.

For Biden, the third time isnt the charm. We rate this claim False.

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Denver City Councils Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness Committee on Wednesday postponed its vote on a bill restricting concealed carry in buildings owned, leased by or leased to the city, as well as Denver parks, to April 27 to give city staff more time to answer council members' questions.

The proposal is part of Mayor Michael Hancocks 2022 Public Safety Action Plan. Assistant City Attorney Reggie Nubine said this proposed legislation is part of the national conversation to reduce gun violence and came about after the state legislature passed SB21-256, allowing local governments to prohibit firearms in certain parts of a governments jurisdiction.

Exemptions would apply to law enforcement officers, military personnel in performance of duties and licensed security guards with firearms endorsements in performance of duties. People carrying for use in a legitimate sporting event would also be exempt, as well as individuals with a valid authorization at Denver shooting ranges, and those lawfully traveling with a firearm.

Proposed penalties would be no more than a $50 fine on first offense and up to a $999 fine and/or up to 300 days in jail for a second offense depending on circumstances.

Several council members wondered if this could be considered a violation of the Second Amendment, but Nubine said jurisdictions are allowed to reasonably limit constitutional rights and that this legislation could be seen as parallel to firearm bans in public schools.

You still have to follow reasonable regulations that might be enacted by the state or the local government, Nubine said. This is why we have a concealed carry permit just generally we can limit a person's ability to carry in a certain manner, in certain places as long as theres a necessity for it or theres a reasonable basis for why we are enacting that legislation.

In terms of enforcement, Assistant City Attorney Erica Rogers said people working in city buildings and parks are not responsible and are encouraged to call law enforcement if they suspect someone is carrying an unauthorized firearm. She also said signage must be displayed in prohibited areas to notify the public for the bill to be enforced, per state statute.

Nubine also clarified for council members that this doesnt apply to entities like the Denver Water building or Denver Health hospitals if the city doesnt own them despite their close association to the city. It does apply to city-owned property in other counties, though.

One of the key items many council members were curious about is data on crimes committed by concealed weapon carriers, also in city parks and facilities. Officials with the city attorneys office didnt have this information on hand, and they said theyd provide what they could before it comes back to the committee at the end of the month.

While several council members wanted to see this data to answer what problem the bill is trying to solve, Councilwoman Robin Kniech said she thinks it's important to pass legislation to set expectations based on values. She also emphasized that no one piece of legislation will completely solve a problem.

Fundamentally, do we think our community is safer with more guns walking around or less safe? Kniech said. The data is actually quite clear on this fact. Countries with fewer guns walking around are safer than our country with more guns walking around. Thats a fact that is very well researched.

After learning that this doesnt apply to parking lots weapons are allowed to be properly stored in a permitted carriers vehicle Councilwoman Candi CdeBaca, while not a voting member of the committee, said she wants data on crimes committed with guns stolen from cars, which she said the council has been repeatedly told is one of the primary ways guns are obtained.

CdeBaca also said she wants more info on other constitutional rights that are allowed to be limited or banned on public property. Additionally, she said she wants to see demographic data on who is applying for and obtaining permits for concealed carry and fully outlined protocol on how law enforcement will respond to a report of a concealed weapon.

I want to see that data as well to make sure that we are not creating more opportunities for pretextual types of interactions with police while were simultaneously trying to reduce unnecessary contact with police in historically marginalized communities, CdeBaca said. ... What were saying with this is that anyone can say theyre afraid of someone in the park, call the cops and have them checked for a concealed carry weapon whether they have proof of it.

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