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Posted on 04/29/2021 9:53:46 AM PDT by PROCON
In his first speech before both chambers of Congress, President Joe Biden focused heavily on his administration’s gun control agenda, calling once again for “reasonable reforms” on firearms, including a ban on “assault weapons” and high-capacity magazines.
“We need a ban on assault weapons and high—capacity magazines again. Don’t tell me it can’t be done. We’ve done it before … and it worked,” Biden asserted in his speech. “Talk to most responsible gun owners, most hunters – they’ll tell you there’s no possible justification for having 100 rounds – 100 bullets – in a weapon. They will tell you that there are too many people today who are able to buy a gun, but who shouldn’t be able to.”
Biden said gun-control advocates “beat the NRA” in the 1990s with the passage of universal background checks and a ban on so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. He claimed that “mass shootings and gun violence declined,” but the law expired in the early 2000s and “we’ve seen the daily bloodshed since.”
Biden also called for the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act and the banning of home-made “ghost guns.”
“I will do everything in my power to protect the American people from this epidemic of gun violence. But it’s time for Congress to act as well. We need more Senate Republicans to join with the overwhelming majority of their Democratic colleagues, and close loopholes and require background checks to purchase a gun,” Biden said.
The National Rifle Association shot back at Biden on social media, tweeting, “Biden just touted the ’94 Assault Weapons Ban during his #PresidentialAddress. In ’94, Americans owned 850,000 AR-15s. Even the Clinton DOJ proved this ban to be a failure. Today, the ban is long gone & law-abiding Americans own 20 million AR-15s.”
“Who beat who, Mr. President?”
In 2004, the Department of Justice National Institute of Justice issued a report stating that the 1994 “assault weapons” ban did not actually reduce crime.
“We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence. And, indeed, there has been no discernible reduction in the lethality and injuriousness of gun violence,” the report stated, according to a copy which was viewed by The Washington Times at the time.
The report noted that the “assault weapons” were “rarely used in gun crimes before the ban.”
“Should it be renewed, the ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement,” the report continued, later stating, “The ban’s effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.”
Biden said the “reasonable reforms” he’s proposing have the “overwhelming support” of Americans “including many gun owners.” He then pressured Congress to take action, saying gun control isn’t a “Red vs. Blue issue. It’s an American issue.”
“When the President of the United States says you don’t need guns and ammo…YOU NEED GUNS AND AMMO,” the NRA tweeted.
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His understanding of ‘reasonable’ is different from what others may consider reasonable. I have three issues with his statement:
1. What is wrong with having a magazine that can hold 100 rounds? I once had an opportunity to buy a drum magazine for a Glock - didn’t do it because I prefer my magazines to have max functionality, and I had concerns about drums and reliability, but if I wanted to I should.
2. We ALL know they will go to anything above 10 rounds in one breath.
3. It will NOT stop criminals and killers from committing crime and killing. It will only affect law abiding citizens, period!
Basement Biden needs a Guns 101 class.
true dat.
The point of law is not to reduce violence, it is to produce offenders.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed"
means what it says, not what you say it says.
Somebody should post an appropriate picture with the caption,”Black guns matter” or “It’s because I’m Black, isn’t it?”.
The only class that Biden needs is a reminder of the lesson taught to his kindred tyrants by the patriots of Lexington/Concord on 19 April, 1775.
Biden demands. It’s what tyrants do.
There, fixed the sentence.
The world of the modern compact 9 mm and 45 and 40 happened when the 94 assault rifle ban happened and came out with the 10 round magazine limit.
Before that, almost all handguns were high-capacity full-size type frames. When restricted to 10 rounds, the industry unleashed a flood of highly concealable 10 round pistols.
The idiots are just checkers players in a chess world.
We need an empty gesture.
The one and only one reason to ban ghost guns, is because you need all guns to have a serial number for registration. The only reason for insisting every gun have a serial number is for confiscation and restriction.
“reforms” - “infringement”. End of story.
Fact is they know Americans will become very angry ( put mildly) at what they are planning to do to us and this Nation.
Yo Joe, propose in one hand and sh!t in the other, and tell me which hand fills faster. Joe?
5.56mm
Yup
Zero chance of this happening any time soon. This is rhetoric to keep their lunatic base from total mutiny. Same with all their “green new deal” nonsense; it’s left-wing opium for their rabid crazies they’re afraid will completely jump ship.
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