President Joe Biden will announce the creation of the first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention on Friday, fulfilling a key demand of gun safety activists as legislation remains stalled in Congress, according to two people with direct knowledge of the White House’s plans.

Stefanie Feldman, a longtime Biden aide who previously worked on the Domestic Policy Council, will play a leading role, the people said.

Greg Jackson, executive director of the Community Justice Action Fund, and Rob Wilcox, the senior director for federal government affairs at Everytown for Gun Safety, are expected to hold key roles in the office alongside Feldman, who has worked on gun policy for more than a decade and still oversees the policy portfolio at the White House. The creation of the office was first reported by The Washington Post.

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    Except it’s not extremely niche. It’s an actual problem that was exacerbated by…

    Wait for it …

    CAPITALISM

    It’ll be fun to see you guess how

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            Okay, so since you don’t know: Feral hogs are smart animals. Traps don’t usually work more than once because they figure the traps out. Then the next effort to control them was hunting and shooting them from helicoptors. Well holy shit that is a LOT of fun, so an industry of helicoptor pig hunting was born. CAPITALISM!! But oh no, if you kill all the pigs then you stop making money selling pig hunting adventures…so somebody has to breed pigs and release them into the wild. You have two pigs…CAPITALISM! Soon there are more pigs than there are hunters, and then you have a pigdemic! …caused by CAPITALISM!!

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              How easily you rationalize the slaughter of intelligent animals for your own amusement just so you can invent an excuse to own more guns. And that has nothing to do with capitalism, it’s just a matter of your own selfish entitlement.

              You’re a fucking monster.