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2022-05-31 Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden on Memorial Day: ‘The Constitution, the Second Amendment Was Never Absolute'
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden pushed for more gun control on Monday, even though it was Memorial Day, a national patriotic holiday.

"The Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute," Biden said to reporters.

The president spoke to reporters about gun control as he returned to Washington, DC, from Delaware for Memorial Day ceremonies.

Biden falsely claimed again that Americans were unable to purchase a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed, despite being repeatedly fact-checked as false by even the Washington Post and Politifact.

"You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed and you couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons," he said.

Biden recalled a briefing he had when he was a senator on bullet calibers and the damage they caused to the human body.

"The 22 caliber bullet will lodge in the lungs and we can get it out," Biden said. "A 9 mm bullet blows the lung out of the body."

"The idea of a high caliber weapon, there is no rationale for it in terms of self-protection, hunting," he said.

Biden also referred to a quote from Thomas Jefferson who said "the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants," tying it in with his argument about the Second Amendment.

"There was a while there, where people were saying, you know, the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of patriots, and what we have to do is to be able take on the government when they are wrong," Biden said.

Biden argued in order for citizens to hold the government accountable with equal levels of force, Americans would have to own a fighter jet or a tank.

"To do that you need an F-15, you need an Abrams tank," he said, suggesting it was an outrageous idea.

Biden revealed he had not had any conversations with Republicans on the issue of gun control but said he wanted to act.

"I know that it makes no sense to be able to be able to purchase something that can fire up to 300 rounds," he said.
^ THIS shows he's an absolute ignorant moron
Posted by Frank G 2022-05-31 07:38|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 Canadian PM Trudeau announces legislation to ‘freeze’ handgun ownership, buy back ‘assault-style weapons’
Posted by Skidmark 2022-05-31 08:16||   2022-05-31 08:16|| Front Page Top

#2 You understand that carried to the logical point that means the national government also isn't absolute.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-31 08:17||   2022-05-31 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Long past time to water the tree again.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-05-31 08:26||   2022-05-31 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 “No Constitutional Amendments are absolute” - and just like that, slavery was back on the table
Posted by Slenter Panda4300 2022-05-31 08:34||   2022-05-31 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Is there a better day to destroy the Bill of Rights? Maybe the 4th of July.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-05-31 08:44||   2022-05-31 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 FJB
Posted by Mercutio 2022-05-31 09:39||   2022-05-31 09:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Great talking point for every conservative pol and candidate: "The Constitution is absolute. What isn't absolute is your feelings."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-31 09:41||   2022-05-31 09:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Constitution has a built in method to change.
If you think you have the support to change the 2nd Amendment the pathway is clear. Since liberals have never even attempted to actually change the Amendment we know they know they are vastly outnumbered on the issue.
Posted by ruprecht 2022-05-31 10:31||   2022-05-31 10:31|| Front Page Top

#9 The end-run is the left's preferred maneuver always. This is also known as "ignoring the rules," or cheating.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-05-31 10:37||   2022-05-31 10:37|| Front Page Top

#10 I suppose we're going to find out.
Posted by Cesare 2022-05-31 11:26||   2022-05-31 11:26|| Front Page Top

#11 This is what executive orders are for!
Posted by Knuckles Jones7791 2022-05-31 11:30||   2022-05-31 11:30|| Front Page Top

#12 What Mercutio said.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-05-31 11:51||   2022-05-31 11:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Joe's worried about the 'large-caliber' 9 mm handgun. But the 5.56 mm is OK? It's pretty close to 22 caliber, Joe. Whaddaya think?

Do you think?
Posted by Bobby 2022-05-31 11:59||   2022-05-31 11:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Caliber .22 or .223, it's toMAto/toMAHto, man!
Posted by SteveS 2022-05-31 12:21||   2022-05-31 12:21|| Front Page Top

#15 Madison put forward the Bill of Rights amendments as a first order of business in the new Congress after he had promised people that he would make that effort during the ratification process. Many people were concerned that Federal Power could grow unchecked if personal and state rights were not codified within the Constitution. The argument that the 2nd Amendment does not reserve the individual right to bear arms doesn’t make any sense logically or historically. Canada is certainly proving why the 2nd Amendment was a good idea. I don’t think Canada’s Charter of Rights includes a similar provision.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-05-31 12:29||   2022-05-31 12:29|| Front Page Top

#16 The lie about the Second Amendment is telling, the Second Amendment is a statement of absolute right. The unorganized militia, essentially the entire population of fighting age, was to have personal arms to provide for national defense and as a bulwark against any form of tyranny, whether foreign or domestic The deflection about hunting and "self-defense" as a primary basis for the 2A is pure BS. As a poster in CTH notes succinctly:
"Moondoggie
May 31, 2022 9:27 am
Joe LIES!

When the Constitution was ratified there were NO laws prohibiting the purchase of cannon. Most of the cannon used by local militias were privately owned. Also, many merchant ships had their own cannon…not only for self protection, but also so that merchant ships could be rapidly converted to “Naval Auxiliaries” by issuing “Letters of Marque”. “Privateers” existed up until the time of the Civil War…possibly longer.

You could own any weapon you wanted up until the National Firearms Act of 1934. There was a Remmington Model 1907 rifle…30.06 caliber, semi-automatic, 20 round detachable magazine, 180,000 sold…zero mass shooting..."

Make no mistake, this is the emerging predicate for the long term goal of disarming the public.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-05-31 13:08||   2022-05-31 13:08|| Front Page Top

#17 The US got its ass kicked in Afghanistan by men with rifles and no F-15s or tanks.
Posted by Bertie Lumumba1577 2022-05-31 16:00||   2022-05-31 16:00|| Front Page Top

#18 Re: #15 above. The first paragraph of the Canuckistanian Rights and Freedoms dismisses everything that follows it. It is a document that lists all the Rights and Freedoms that the Federal Canuckistanian Gummint MAY let you enjoy if it so pleases them.
Posted by Canuckistan sniper 2022-05-31 16:08||   2022-05-31 16:08|| Front Page Top

#19 Thank you for the clarification. Stateside, I would like to see handguns banned for Alek Baldwin. That may be a violation of the Constitution, but I think it is a good idea.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-05-31 16:59||   2022-05-31 16:59|| Front Page Top

#20 He's the hairy legged gent who ran amok in Kent,
Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair.
You better stay away from him,
He'll shoot your lungs out, Jim,
Huh! I'd like to meet his tailor.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-05-31 18:06||   2022-05-31 18:06|| Front Page Top

#21 The US got its ass kicked in Afghanistan by men with rifles and no F-15s or tanks

Kicked? Where? What's the name of the battle? The loss in Afghanistan was due to politics that 1) expanded its mission beyond the retribution for 9/11 and 2) didn't allow the military to 'win'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-05-31 21:19||   2022-05-31 21:19|| Front Page Top

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