There's little that is as upsetting as seeing your tax dollars spent on something you are morally opposed to with every fiber of your being. It's especially upsetting when that something is an attack on one of our basic civil liberties that's expressly protected by the United States Constitution.
However, as we found out earlier this year, our tax money was ending up in the bank accounts of various gun control groups, thus we were being forced to fund the effort to strip us of our God-given right to keep and bear arms.
Much of that funding was cut off already, but not all of it.
As the NRA-ILA notes, though, President Trump has cut off even more.
The loss of funding resulted in a lawsuit against the Trump administration brought by five non-profit entities, lead by the progressive Vera Institute of Justice, alleging the cuts were unconstitutional, illegal, and arbitrary and capricious. In July, an Obama-appointed judge of the federal district court for the District of Columbia denied injunctive relief and granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show the court had jurisdiction over their arbitrary and capricious claim and failed “to demonstrate a violation of any constitutional right or protection.”
The other shoe on these grants has just dropped.
The Trump administration has reportedly retooled the eligibility criteria and focus for these grants going forward. Eligibility to apply for an estimated $34 million in grant money has changed to exclude community-based organizations and non-profit applicants. The focus is more explicitly on “supporting law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime and improv[ing] police-community relations” through law enforcement officer and related personnel hiring, equipment purchases that specifically support violence prevention and intervention, youth violence intervention programs, and generally by “increasing the capacity of local government, law enforcement, and the criminal justice system to coordinate comprehensive crime reduction strategies.”
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A look through the archived list of past federal grant recipients (FY 2022 and FY 2023) shows that many of the previous CVIPI grantees have also been funded by Everytown Support Fund’s Community Safety Fund. A very cursory examination of the archived list also reveals a few grant recipients with clear anti-Second Amendment, pro-gun control elements.
Let's understand that no matter what a program accomplishes with regard to reducing violent crime, if they don't support gun control, Everytown isn't backing them. I don't care what they might claim in that regard; that's just the simple truth. They're an anti-Second Amendment organization, and they only support their fellow travelers.
But by changing the criteria like they did, the DOJ has cut off funding that might not explicitly go toward gun control, but would free up other revenue for those purposes. Something else I don't care about is the claim that the money wasn't for anti-gun activities, because money is fungible and a dollar in is a dollar in. They only promise not to use X amount for anti-gun efforts.
While gun control organizations are trying to frame this as killing efforts to prevent so-called gun violence, the reality is that there's little evidence these efforts did a damn thing. Plus, if Everytown and its buddies are that bothered, they're free to issue their own grants. I'm sure Michael Bloomberg has a spare $34 million lying around.
Why should we, the American people, be on the hook for something that doesn't seem to do much?
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