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January 1, Biden Vows to Push Ban on “Sick” Semiautomatic Weapons
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President Joe Biden has vowed to push a ban on so-called “assault weapons” in the wake of several mass shootings across the country.
“The idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick, it’s just sick. It has no social redeeming value, zero, none. Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers,” Biden told reporters on Thanksgiving Day.
“I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons,” he insisted.
With an evenly split Senate, Biden is unlikely to gain the 60 votes necessary to overcome GOP opposition to a proposed ban on the sale of semiautomatic firearms.
Biden has previously pledged to ban “assault weapons.” During his 2020 presidential campaign, told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I’m going to get an assault weapons ban. … Before this is over, I’m going to get that again. Not a joke, and watch.”
However, previous efforts to pass a semiautomatic-weapons ban have stalled in Congress.
Biden’s recent remarks come amid a particularly violent November. There have been at least three mass shootings in the U.S., claiming the lives of more than a dozen people and injuring dozens of others.
On November 13, three University of Virginia football players were fatally shot and two others were injured by a classmate.
Six days later, a gunman killed five people and injured at least 25 others at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
On November 22, an employee opened fire at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, killing six people and wounding three others.
Sources: CNN | National Review | New York Post
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Rahn
November 27, 2022 at 6:23 am
I bet Paul Pelosi wishes Biden would get rid of assault hammers.
Rahn
November 27, 2022 at 6:24 am
where is my comment?
David
November 27, 2022 at 3:19 pm
You have comstutional right to own automatic assult weapons. You are sick not Biden he cars about human life especially children
Rahn
November 27, 2022 at 6:25 am
I bet Paul Pelosi wishes Biden would Ban Assault Hammers.
Rahn
November 27, 2022 at 6:26 am
Biden should ban assault hammers
MERILYN MASTER
November 27, 2022 at 6:35 am
Sick Joe is making sick decision about America’s constitutional right to own guns!!
He must be stopped………………………….ASAP……………….
Avis Dillon
November 27, 2022 at 8:14 am
Name one thing an assault gun is good for except to kill multiple innocent people quickly!! The 2nd amendment gave you the right to own a musket. Be my guest
Gerald Ladd
November 27, 2022 at 7:42 am
We need a ban on stupid DemonRATS.
Don
November 27, 2022 at 8:24 am
That is more prudent than anything else.
Robert Stallman
November 27, 2022 at 8:08 am
From the various comments it appears clear that many don’t understand “semi-automatic”. Semi-automatic means that a gun fires every time the trigger is pulled. Automatic means that you pull the trigger once and hold and it continues to fire. Neither of these is needed in a hunting context, an experienced hunter being easily able to “cock” a gun for every firing. Cocking such a gun takes about one second. The same applies if the “game” you are hunting is the person breaking down your front door.
Both of the above are considerably more dangerous, especially in the hands of an inexperienced person. This being the case, there is no question that fewer accidents will happen if both semi-automatic and automatic weapons are banned (most places they already are).. They simply are not needed in any sense except where some deranged person intends to injure many people quickly. The same would apply to a car which can reach 300 miles an hour. It is simply not needed. IT CAN ONLY BE REASONABLE AND SENSIBLE TO BAN SUCH WEAPONS. If something not necessary is also dangerous, it is not needed.
Is there any doubt about why the country with the most liberal gun laws also has the highest rate of deaths by gun?
G D Blake
November 27, 2022 at 8:35 am
You simply don’t understand that a home intrusion, where your life is in danger from multiple assailants, requires a semiautomatic weapon with a large enough magazine to stop multiple attackers. Sorry, but seconds count. Attackers aren’t going to just stand there while you manually chamber a round. Having and knowing how to use a semiautomatic is the only thing that’s going to give you a fighting chance against criminals intent on taking your life as well as your possessions.
Jimmy F
November 27, 2022 at 7:10 pm
Keeping guns out of the hands of bad actors is NOT equivalent to BANNING. It is an utter lie from the pit of hell and smells like smoke. Automatic weapons ARE already banned. Nobody of sound mind and character keeps an automatic weapon. An AR-15 type weapon NOT an automatic weapon. It is more lethal than a handgun (and that’s a good thing if you are attacked), but handguns are involved in the vast majority of killings in the U.S. You CAN’T ban ANY particular semi-automatic weapon without also banning handguns, which are used in the majority of shootings – PERIOD. And as always, criminals DON’T FOLLOW THE LAW. They mysteriously circumvent every stupid law that is designed to make the public safe. Jailing criminals that use guns illegally is the ONLY REAL answer to deterring crime. The lunatics on the left continue to stick to the narrative that banning weapons is a necessary deterrence, at least until THEY are robbed at gunpoint, or their home is invaded. It’s utter lunacy to conflate banning guns with needing less policing and prosecution of violators of common sense laws. SEMI-AUTOMATIC includes handguns. DUH! WE must NEVER let ANY government erode or suppress the ability of the public to be armed against tyranny. NEVER EVER EVER! They are ALWAYS trying really hard to do that, which means they categorically INTEND to be tyrannical once they gain the power to disarm you. If you give them even an inch, they will soon thereafter take EVERYTHING else from you. That’s the battle you and me. The government works for us, not the other way around. As soon as the left realizes that their policies are utterly insane, then some semblance of sanity may be restored in 2023 and 2024.
Avis Dillon
November 27, 2022 at 8:21 am
Robert Stallman. You are absolutely correct. That is the only thing they are good for. The 2nd amendment gives the right to own a MUSKET. And the n only if you are part of a militia.
Sick&Tired
November 27, 2022 at 9:13 am
BIDEN IS SO DUMB……..HOW A PATHETIC MAN OR PERSON LIKE BIDEN …”EVER”…..GOT INTO THE WHITEHOUSE IS SO UNBELIEVABLE. !!
GUNS……DO NOT KILL PEOPLE……IT IS THE “PERSON” BEHIND THE GUN THAT DOES THE KILLING……. THE STUPID BRAIN OF THE INDIVIDUAL, WHO IS DOING THE SHOOTING IS DOING THE KILLING……….. YOU WANT TO CURB THE MASS KILLING – THEN LET THE DOJ MAKE THE LAW THAT MAKES IT AN AUOTMATIC DEATH SENSTENCE – TO THE INDIVIDUAL, WHO DOES THE MASS SHOOTING.!!
PRETTY SIMPLE – AND I BET WITH THAT BEING PUT IN PLACE…….MASS SHOOTING WOULD DEFINITELY BEGIN TO DISAPPEAR. !!! BUT- WE HAVE SUCH A SOFT AND PANSY SOCIETY IT IS PATHETIC. !!!
hank
November 27, 2022 at 9:54 am
The people are letting the clown in our W.H. do whatever he wants just like with Obama this crap of the democrats trying to run our lives needs stopped.
Cat
November 27, 2022 at 1:07 pm
Hank……I agree wholeheartedlly!
NOYB
November 27, 2022 at 11:04 am
Well let’s think a little bit here …. is a pistol considered a semi automatic? Now also I have killed hogs and I remember one in particular that with the 1st shot of my 357 into his head just got mad and started charging – took 3 in the head before he fell – I’ll keep my semi auto thank you it’s better than being gored to death not to mention if I have to lower the gun cock it again re aim by then the game is gone. Also if a hopped up crack head is coming in my door with a semi (because i don’t care what the laws are criminals will have their semi and their fully automatic) I at least want a semi auto. Maybe just maybe if we start teaching responsibility for your actions and respect for life at early ages (like from BIRTH) instead of liberals setting the examples of EVERYTHING is allowed and you have the birth right to do as you please our crime rate will go down. I don’t care how WOKE you think you are…..it’s time to wake up and put your brain in gear grab your big person pants and start THINKING – while it’s still legal !!!
Cat
November 27, 2022 at 1:13 pm
NYOB……..You just gave the ultimate advice. It’s called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. In today’s America it’s (very unfortunately) next to nonexistant.
David
November 27, 2022 at 3:27 pm
I ha e my brain in full gear problem is you idiot doesn’t have a t brain just the rest of the jerks out there that own assault weapons.
HRT
November 27, 2022 at 2:20 pm
God bless Biden. May he accomplish what trump failed to do and that is get rid of guns period! We should not have any guns be in revolver or automatic, pump, bolt action, automatic whatever. Hunting should be banned and police should NOT have guns either as they kill blacks with them. If someone is charging at you with ill intent let them. The bible says to turn the other cheek. Christians, practice what you preach.
Brunswick
November 27, 2022 at 2:23 pm
Moron! Tell ya what you let them hurt you, I don’t care. Me i’m no one’s victim. I’ve read many stupid things on here, but you pretty much take the cake. Let me guess your a progressive…I mean Communist right. Why don’t you go to a place that is much safer than the USA. I’m sure we won’t miss you at all.
Roger
November 27, 2022 at 11:23 pm
You are no doubt a dumbacrat ! How long do you think a cop will remain alive with that thinking ! Just can’t fix stupid !
Richard
November 28, 2022 at 9:56 am
You are a total whacked out moron!
Jim Skogsbergh
December 2, 2022 at 12:35 pm
I take it you are not a Christian. Are you implying that if someone much larger meaner than you charges after your wife and children you should just stand by and ask your family to turn the other cheek. I suppose you would put your wimpy ass body in front of the danger and your family would then be safe. What an idiot.
Brunswick
November 27, 2022 at 2:21 pm
Just a sick little communist old man. Reminds me of those old Russian leaders of the 60’s. Maybe he can get a statute of himself put up in Russia or China.
Lonesome Wolf
November 27, 2022 at 2:45 pm
Has anyone considered that a possible reason for so many shootings could be that the current society makes it so easy? And the fact that it is so uncertain for legal carriers who use their firearm to protect themselves or others. Shooting a mass shooter or other armed criminal can get the citizen ‘good guy’ in more trouble that the armed criminal.
moosegringo Green
November 29, 2022 at 8:33 am
Best thing that could happen to this country right now is for Air Force One and Two to simultaneously crash – with Pelosi, Schumer and whoever would be next in line to succeed on board too.