{"id":203421,"date":"2024-06-12T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T14:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=203421"},"modified":"2024-06-12T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:58:34","slug":"biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden: &#8216;Ban Assault Weapons, I mean It!&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE: President Biden speaks after son Hunter found guilty of gun crimes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lngHmo6sFnA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"yoast-reading-time__wrapper\"><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__icon\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-icon=\"clock\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" style=\"display:inline-block;vertical-align:-0.1em\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" stroke-width=\"2\" d=\"M12 8v4l3 3m6-3a9 9 0 11-18 0 9 9 0 0118 0z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__spacer\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:1em\"><\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__descriptive-text\">Estimated reading time:  <\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__reading-time\">3<\/span><span class=\"yoast-reading-time__time-unit\"> minutes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Joe Biden addressed Everytown for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everytown.org\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it\" title=\"Biden: 'Ban Assault Weapons, I mean It!'\"> Gun Safety\u2019s Gun Sense University<\/a> on Tuesday.  While you can watch the entire speech in the video embedded above, here are some of the lowlights: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-on-banning-assault-weapons\">On Banning &#8216;Assault Weapons&#8217;: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time once again to do what I did when I was a Senator: ban assault weapons! I mean it. Who in God&#8217;s name needs a magazine which can hold 200 shells? Nobody. That&#8217;s right.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I remember when I was campaigning, when I was a Senator, going through the wetlands of Delaware to meet all the people who were most upset with me\u2014the fishermen and the hunters. And I came across a guy who was fishing. He said, &#8216;You want to take my gun?&#8217; And I looked at him and said, &#8216;Yeah, I don&#8217;t want to take your gun. You&#8217;re allowed to have a gun, but I want to take away your ability to use an assault weapon&#8230;&#8217; He said, &#8216;What do you mean? I need that gun.&#8217; I said, &#8216;Guess what? If you need 12 to 100 bullets in a gun, in a magazine, you&#8217;re the lousiest shot I&#8217;ve ever heard.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delivering an anti gun speech at the same time your son was just found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm is crazy! \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 We live in clown world. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w7FOvLYFmo\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it\" title=\"Biden: 'Ban Assault Weapons, I mean It!'\">https:\/\/t.co\/w7FOvLYFmo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Colion Noir (@MrColionNoir) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrColionNoir\/status\/1800598698805936580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it\" title=\"Biden: 'Ban Assault Weapons, I mean It!'\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m serious. And to his credit, he looked at me and said, &#8216;You have a good point.&#8217; But think about it\u2014they&#8217;re weapons of war.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-on-the-bankrupting-the-gun-industry\">On the Bankrupting the Gun Industry <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;By the way, this is the most important. The only industry in America that has immunity\u2014gun manufacturers. We&#8217;ve got to end it, end it now. No, I mean it. Imagine, imagine if we gave tobacco an exception that could not be prosecuted. What would happen? We&#8217;d have thousands more people dying of cancer because of smoke inhalation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden is speaking at the \u201cGun Sense University\u201d event hosted by Everytown for Gun Safety the same day his son is convicted on a federal gun charge.<br \/><br \/>Just a perfect encapsulation of how the Biden campaign is going.<\/p>&mdash; \ud83d\udc3a (@LeighWolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeighWolf\/status\/1800587363825164548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it\" title=\"Biden: 'Ban Assault Weapons, I mean It!'\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-on-funding-the-aft-sic\">On Funding the &#8220;AFT&#8221; [Sic] <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s time to increase funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and explosives and other law enforcement agencies as well to solve the crimes faster. Look, unfortunately, it&#8217;s the only part of the thing I&#8217;m going to say\u2014the Congressional Republicans oppose all of these, every one of these. Instead of trying to stop our ban on ghost gun kits that commit crimes, they&#8217;re working like hell to stop it. They want to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and explosives, which is responsible for fighting gun crimes. You can&#8217;t be pro-law enforcement and say you are pro-law enforcement and be pro-abolishing the <strong>AFT<\/strong>. You can&#8217;t do it. It&#8217;s outrageous.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Do you support your son&#39;s conviction over the law you and Everytown have endorsed? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FCbP4bPbfY\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it\" title=\"Biden: 'Ban Assault Weapons, I mean It!'\">https:\/\/t.co\/FCbP4bPbfY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DLoesch\/status\/1800596535622955179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it\" title=\"Biden: 'Ban Assault Weapons, I mean It!'\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-owning-a-cannon-during-the-civil-war\">Owning a Cannon During the Civil War<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I used to be a law professor. When I was no longer the Vice President, I became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Before that, I taught a constitutional law class and, well, talked about the Second Amendment. There&#8217;s never been a time that says you can own anything you want. You couldn&#8217;t own a cannon during the Civil War. No, I&#8217;m serious. Think about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>***RE: Cannon, He&#8217;s wrong, of course.  It&#8217;s a lie he keeps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/bidens-a-broken-record-president-keeps-telling-this-lie-about-2a\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it\" title=\"Biden: 'Ban Assault Weapons, I mean It!'\">repeating<\/a>.***<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden is currently speaking on restricting our Second Amendment rights after his son is convicted on gun charges. <br \/><br \/>Oh, the irony.<\/p>&mdash; Lisa McClain (@LisaForCongress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaForCongress\/status\/1800597791250493736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-ban-assault-weapons-i-mean-it\" title=\"Biden: 'Ban Assault Weapons, I mean It!'\">June 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-blood-of-liberty\">Blood of Liberty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;How many heard this phrase, &#8216;the blood of liberty&#8217;? 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