Biden Might Have Said the Dumbest Thing About Firearms

townhall.com ^ | 6/18/2023 1000 hrs edt | Julio Rosas

[rktman]

President Joe Biden spoke out against stabilizing braces during a speech, in which he erroneously claimed putting a brace on a pistol makes it more dangerous because it increases the caliber the firearm shoots.

"Made it harder for people to buy stabilize braces. Put a pistol on a brace, it turns into a gun — makes it more — you can have a higher-caliber weapon, higher-caliber bullet coming out of that gun," Biden said.

[alternatives?]

Spending money is not creating.

[philman_36]

Spending money is not creating.

Material goods and personnel were required to create it.
Research was required and conducted. Testing was conducted.
Those things require purchases or expenditure of money.
Or were they created from thin air?

Except for God's creation, everything, at its core, is created by, or through, money in some form or fashion.

JMO, YMMV

[muir_redwoods]

I gotta git me one of those brace thingys. I’d finally be able to shoot .338 lapua from my .25acp.

Recoil might be a bit stiff tho…

[philman_36]

Except for God's creation, everything, at its core, is created by, or through, money in some form or fashion.

Amended comment regarding certain objects like clay or eggs.
A person may keep chickens for eggs. The eggs are free, in a sense. The hen lays it, the human collects them.
The person may eat, barter or sell them even though they had no action in creating the eggs, other than keeping the chickens fed and providing a safe coop.

The same as with clay. The potter simply has to find and dig up the clay. How they utilize the clay then is up to them.

You get my drift? Flowers! Another example. You just pick and enjoy.
Just clarifying.

[alternatives?]

Politicians take money from people at the point of a gun. They are supposed to spend it wisely. They throw it around and spend much more than they collected to those who help them get elected or those who provide kickbacks. Giving them creation credit for one of the few items that ultimately led to a outcome that they didn’t foresee and certainly didn’t have the intelligence to develop is a bridge much too far to me.

The government has gotten so large and broad, that they could claim credit for any new invention.

[philman_36]

Ummmm...that, in no way, address what you said...Spending money is not creating.

[maddog55]

I’d prefer he put the 12 gauge under his chin.

[philman_36]

The government has gotten so large and broad, that they could claim credit for any new invention.

Credit?! They want more than credit. You need a shift in thinking.

Moderna offers NIH co-ownership of COVID vaccine patent amid dispute with government

"Omitting NIH inventors from the principal patent application deprives NIH of a co-ownership interest in that application and the patent that will eventually issue from it," said an NIAID spokesperson.
Snip...The Government Accountability Office recently estimated that the NIH has earned $2 billion in royalties since 1991 over licensing patents for FDA-approved drugs.
Snip...Beyond the money the federal government could earn from the patent, Rizvi said the Biden administration could leverage a license with co-inventorship to allow developing countries to ramp up production of the shots and prepare for future pandemics without strings attached. It's always about the money.