Hunter Biden Gets Caught in America's Double War on Drugs and Guns

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Hunter Biden Gets Caught in America's Double War on Drugs and Guns

 

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman pore over last week's indictment of Hunter Biden on federal gun charges and weigh in on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's upcoming meeting with President Joe Biden.

1:00: Hunter Biden indicted on federal gun charges

23:39: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet with President Biden next week

32:56: Weekly Listener Question

46:40: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s environmental plan

Mentioned in this podcast:

"There's Plenty of Evidence of Corruption Around Biden," by J.D. Tuccille

"Without a Diversion Agreement, Hunter Biden Could Go to Prison Under an Arbitrary Gun Law His Dad Supports," by Jacob Sullum

"How Hunter Biden's Plea Deal Fell Apart," by Jacob Sullum

"All Drug Offenders Should Be Treated Like Hunter Biden: Leniently," by Nick Gillespie

"Hunter Biden's Prison-Free Plea Should Be Available to Everybody," by J.D. Tuccille

"Squirtle's seen some shit, man," by Nick Gillespie

"Kevin McCarthy's Impeachment Inquiry Provokes Predictably Polarized Reactions," by Christian Britschgi

"Is a Government Shutdown Better Than More Reckless Borrowing?" by Eric Boehm

"Don't Let the Government-Shutdown Charade Distract You From the Debt Crisis," by Romina Boccia

"Ukraine Changes the Face of War Forever," by Nick Gillespie and Regan Taylor

"Should America keep funding Ukraine? Live with Emma Ashford, Nick Gillespie, and Zach Weissmueller"

"Ukraine Crisis: U.S. Must Use Restraint," by Nick Gillespie with Will Ruger

"Debate: The U.S. Should Increase Funding for the Defense of Ukraine," by Cathy Young and Will Ruger

"RFK Jr.: The Reason Interview," by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller

"RFK Jr. wanted to prosecute 'climate deniers.' Has he changed?" by Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller

"RFK Jr.'s long con," by Liz Wolfe

"The Very Strange New Respect for Authoritarian Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," by Matt Welch

"The Top 5 Lies About Fracking," by Ronald Bailey

Send your questions to [e-mail]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

Audio production by Ian Keyser; assistant production by Hunt Beaty.

Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve

What are we consuming this week?

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Micro Center

Nick Gillespie

• Radical Wolfe

Peter Suderman

• Ahsoka

Matt Welch

• Our Mother the Mountain by Townes Van Zandt

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Comments

[Bill Dalasio]

Yeah, just ignore the whole "Hunter had been Joe's bagman for years, just as James Biden had been for years." angle. Those foreign shell companies? Why, they were clearly just covers to facilitate Hunter's drug use! Nothing to see here. Hey, did you hear the BadOrangeMan said the Justice Department is engaged in a witch hunt against him? What kind of kook believes we're still looking to prosecute Wiccans? And can you believe he's still trying to undermine our democracy by questioning the bureaucratic institutions of our democratic government?

[Ben of Houston]

I have to agree. This is like defending Al Capone by complaining about taxes. It is drifting into willfully ignoring the primary point.

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[mad.casual]

"Gets caught" like he was just out doing drugs and using guns the way everybody else had since the beginning of time and the wars on drugs and guns sprang up around him? "Gets caught" like nobody in his life knew there was a war on drugs or guns to warn him?

WTF is wrong with you?

[Don't look at me!]

He can blame his old man for passing laws that made all this possible.

[Rob razor]

A piece of crack cocaine the “the size of a quarter” would get the holder 5 years in jail, with “no probation”. “Judge doesn’t have a choice.”

[techexpress]

Information news. In present time it's a interesting that anxious you what will be happen in coming in future.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

LOL. Is this a Libertariantranslator or SQRLSY sock?

[JesseAz]

Man, Reason with back to back Hunter is a victim articles.

Neither noting why the DoJ chose the gun charges over Tax fraud or FARA.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

The Hunter love at Reason runs deep.

[Dillinger]

>>Hunter Biden indicted on federal gun charges

jeebus at least you fucking mentioned the criminal's name today how's about you help uncover what he really did and I'll agree he's getting railroaded on the gun charge

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Yeah, Reason was able to find *checks byline* two charges that intersect with Libertarianism Plus (thank god he wasn't accused of any sex crimes!) while ignoring the larger picture of this whole scandal. Sure... Reason, I'll nod to "time served" on the whole crack smoking and gun possession violations if we'll agree to agree that Hunter Biden was Joe's bag man for a massive international bribe scam which has far-reaching implications into our current foreign policy.

[MasterThief]

Interesting that you mention sex crimes. Hunter could be hit for the whole thing of taking a prostitute across state lines. He should also catch some shit for fucking his underage niece and her friend. Further, using the Trump sex case in NY as a precedent then Joe should be charged for Tara Reade. Even in that regard the Biden family is far more provably guilty than anything we’ve seen from Trump. Despite all that, Reason chooses to circle the wagons to defend Democrats while using the flimsiest of justifications to attack Republicans

[Gaear Grimsrud]

The MSM and their deep state masters have finally noticed that the Top Guy is a liability and that the impeachment inquiry might actually reveal his blatant corruption. They need him out of office before the primary so they can get rid of Kamala before the election. So far they're all singing in unison, he did a great job but it's time to pass the torch. If he doesn't get the message they will throw him under the bus. The word will come down from sugar daddy Koch and the Reason "libertarians" will suddenly realise that he's the most corrupt president in the history of the republic.

[Fats of Fury]

Biden’s got a huge bag of cash for Zelensky and Zelensky has a smaller bag of cash for Joe.

BTW where’s Hunter’s trial to take place? DC? then it’s a big waste of time and money.

Oh, it's Delaware, same difference.

[Fats of Fury]

Oh it's Delaware, same difference.

[JeremyR]

If he actually does, it would be poetic justice given how his father pushed for a lot of those same laws.

[I woke up when Hillary talked about Reconstruction]

Peope misuse that "poetic justice" thing.
His father was as lazy and dumb then as now. He knew the failure for example of the Brady Bill

The Brady Bill, the most important piece of federal gun control legislation in recent decades, has had no statistically discernable effect on reducing gun deaths, according to a study by Philip J. Cook, a Duke University professor of public policy, economics and sociology.

AND

The FBI didn’t finish over 1 million gun background checks in time to stop a sale in 2020 and 2021

AND the clincher
BIden is chief cause of more gun sales , even WaPo says
Covid lockdowns, protests and election strife led to record gun sales

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

So, the chief complaint about the Hunter/Joe Biden scandal miasma is, "it's just this... this war on drugs and that lying sonofabitch DeSantis"?

[mad.casual]

LOL

[Social Justice is neither]

So left libertarians for corruption is it. You leftist cunts are ignoring the piles of crimes Papa Joe's corrupt DoJ is looking to protect the family from by keeping the flimsiest of investigations open.

[Elmer Fudd the CHUD 2: Steampunk Boogaloo]

This country desperately needs a hard reset where the left is completely removed and utterly crushed. Elections and the courts are a complete failure and totally compromised. The left wasn’t exterminated when it was easy to do so. Now it’s going to be

Better a million Marxists perish than one American’s natural rights are infringed.

[JohnZ]

Ohhhh, the irony! Hunter Biden caught up in the very anti-gun and drug laws his old man passed while in congress.
Sweet. "Gee dad, I didn't think I would run afoul of all those anti Second Amendment laws you passed while you were posing as a congressman. And those laws sending drug users to jail, you obviously didn't think I would become a hopeless drug addict, carousing with whores even young teens . Now where did I put my crack pipe?"

[MatthewSlyfield]

You talk about the Nixon/Watergate committee for the proposition that impeachment processes were less about political gain. Now talk about the Andrew Johnson impeachment...