Biden says he wants to ban semi-automatic guns, including handguns
Biden: “Actually, crime is down; gun violence and murder rates are up. Guns. I’m the only guy that ever got passed legislation when I was a senator, that made sure we eliminated assault weapons. The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon — whether it’s a — whether it’s a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it’s a rifle — is ridiculous. I’m continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things, but I’m not likely to get that done in the near term.”
President Biden made it very clear at his CNN Townhall on Wednesday night that he wants to ban all semi-automatic guns in the US. Not only don’t semi-automatic guns account for most guns, but they provide important self-defensive benefits for individuals. If the alternative is manually loaded guns, victims might not have the luxury of time to manually reload their guns. If a victim is facing multiple attackers, wounds but doesn’t stop the attacker, or misses on their first shot, making them manually reload their gun may leave them defenseless.
Even though Biden says: “whether it’s a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it’s a rifle — is ridiculous. I’m continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things,” left-wing fact-checkers at Politifact claim it is wrong to say that he wants to ban handguns. Their explanation for their conclusion: “The most popular handguns would face no restrictions under Biden’s policies.” That is an absurd evaluation of Biden’s statement. The criticism of Biden is that he wants to ban handguns, and he is clearly saying that he wants to ban handguns. The Republicans weren’t saying that he wants to ban all handguns. In addition, Politifact claims that the most popular handguns are semi-automatic guns that hold magazines.
While this has been the obvious goal of Biden’s gun control policies, no national Democrat has openly come out and said that he wants to ban most guns owned in the United States.
One wonders what would have happened if Biden had said this openly during the campaign. Instead, the media attacked Trump as lying when he warned about this danger.
In a piece that John Lott had in the Wall Street Journal Op-ed last October, he warned: “When President Trump introduced Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, he warned: ‘The coming years will decide the survival of our Second Amendment.’ He’s right.“
(Wednesday, July 21, 2021)
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