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Biden Targets the Second Amendment and Gun Owners With a Barrage of Lies – Opinion

By Pluralist / February 3, 2022

Either Joe Biden is one of the most ignorant people ever to hold the office or he’s one of the most dishonest. Oder both. I’m inclined to think both.

Biden is in New York City Thursday to talk about dealing with “gun violence,” (Funny thing about how those guns are violent all by themselves, seemingly without the aegis of any bad human beings) and he was slinging just a pack full of lies.

Biden said that he wanted every major city to follow New York’s lead in their approach to violent crimes. How’s that working out in New York City? But not so.

I don’t think most sane Americans would want every city to follow NYC’s lead, so that says a lot about Joe Biden’s sanity at this point. With the murders of Officer Wilbert Mora and Jason Rivera, we just witnessed how awful it is. Jason Rivera and Wilbert Mora.

Biden was just reading his speech in NYC, most of the time not even bothering to look up, because he can’t deliver it normally. But, he got hot under the collar when he broached the topic about guns — and that’s when he went off-script, going completely off the reality reservation.

Biden claimed no “right was absolute.” That’s the lead-in to ‘we’re about to try to restrict your rights.’ So he’s flagging that it’s coming; he called for universal background checks, a crackdown on so-called “ghost guns,” and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. He claimed wasn’t trying to “violate anybody’s Second Amendment right.”

He then declared, “You couldn’t buy a cannon when this amendment was passed. There’s no reason why you should be able to buy certain assault weapons.”

First, Joe Biden is lying, and this isn’t the first time he’s told this lie. He’s such a bad liar that he has a habit of recycling lies. He’s said some version of this lie at least twice before, as the Washington Post found.

“Everything in that statement is wrong,” said David Kopel, the research director and Second Amendment project director at the Independence Institute. After 1791, “there were no federal laws about the type of gun you could own, and no states limited the kind of gun you could own.”

Individuals could have cannons. So, he’s just wrong. He keeps repeating it. He doesn’t seem to give a darn about the truth. He got four Pinocchios from the Washington Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler for the last time he said it in June 2021. Kessler reiterated that Thursday, in response to Biden’s remarks.

You could even “own a cannon today,” according to gun expert Stephen Gutowski.

But Biden didn’t stop there. He showed more gun ignorance by calling a Glock a “weapon of war.” No, it isn’t.

He then moved into another lie, claiming that gun manufacturers were “the only industry in America that is exempted from being sued.”

Manufacturers of guns aren’t exempted from lawsuits, and they aren’t the only industries that have some form of liability protection.

The 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act prohibits gun manufacturers from being held responsible for products used in crimes. Gun manufacturers may still be sued for negligence or breach of contract in relation to the purchase of guns. [….]

For instance, vaccine companies cannot be sued in civil court for any damages resulting from vaccine-related injuries or deaths. The 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act will protect pharmaceutical companies that develop the Covid-19 vaccines from any liability for four years.

But, notice he doesn’t mention the exemption for vaccine manufacturers.

Joe Biden is a font of lies and misinformation, yet the White House is pushing to shut down other people, like Joe Rogan, for ‘misinformation’ because he isn’t pushing their narrative. Not only does Biden want to restrict people’s speech rights, but he also wants to restrict their gun rights, too.

But just remember, he’s there to ‘restore norms.’

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