BELLEVUE, WA – The arrest of a man on drug and gun-related charges whose prison sentence was commuted by former President Joe Biden days before he left office underscores the massive failure of the Democrats’ soft-on-crime strategy, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms declared.
Fox News is reporting the arrest of Willie Frank Peterson, 52, is back behind bars two months after Biden commuted his prison sentence on Jan. 17. Peterson was doing time for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, having been imprisoned in September 2023. However, he was arrested earlier this week in Alabama, charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance, one count of marijuana possession, possession of “drug paraphernalia” and “three firearms-related offenses, the report said.
“Joe Biden had no problem weaponizing government agencies against law-abiding gun owners and small retailers, or pushing for gun bans and other restrictions,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb recalled. “Peterson’s arrest simply amplifies the implosion of such a policy, which treats convicted criminals better than honest citizens whose only ‘crime’ is their exercise of Second Amendment rights.
“High-ranking Democrats seem to make a habit of it,” he continued, “as illustrated in Washington state by the recent arrest of Percy Levy, a convicted felon who was granted clemency in 2019 by former Governor Jay Inslee, also on drug and weapons charges. Inslee, like Biden, never met a gun control law he didn’t embrace, and both men treated law-abiding gun owners like the enemy, while showing misplaced sympathy for people who flagrantly ignored the law, and quickly went right back to the wrong side.
“Biden’s pardon of his own son on a federal gun law conviction was the ex-president’s greatest insult to the tens of millions of American citizens who obey the law,” Gottlieb observed. “These high-profile arrests are putting the bankruptcy of Democrat policies on full display. They treat good people like criminals, while treating bad people like model citizens. Their moral compass is broken, and unfortunately Democrats do not appear interested in helping get the country back on course.”