by Rick Manning
Former Vice President Joe Biden used a profane expression to deny that he is against the Second Amendment when pressed by a Michigan voter on the issue. He told the worker he would confiscate his guns: “we’ll take your AR-14s away.” He meant AR-15, which if you own one or other legal to own semi-automatic firearms on the ban list, Biden is in fact coming for your guns.
Millions of these weapons have been sold, and Biden admitted at point blank range that he is going to take them away. The truth is that the former Vice President clearly supports gun bans and confiscation for certain semi-automatic firearms and always has.
Last August when CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked him what he had to say to gun owners who think “a Biden administration means they’re going to come for my guns.” Biden responded, “Bingo, you’re right if you have an assault weapon,” said Biden. “The fact of the matter is they should be illegal, period.”
Just last week, Biden chose former congressman Robert “Beto” O’Rourke to be in charge of gun policy should he be elected saying, “I want to make something clear, I’m going to guarantee you this is not the last you’ve seen of him (O’Rourke),” continuing, “You’re going to take care of the gun problem with me. You’re going to be the one who leads this effort.”
So what is O’Rourke’s position on the Second Amendment?
In a September 12, 2019 Democrat candidate debate in Houston, Texas with Joe Biden on the stage with him, O’Rourke was emphatic saying, “Hell, yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.” It is hard to imagine any universe where Joe Biden can claim that his designation of O’Rourke as his anointed leader to “take care of the gun problem with me” is somehow divorced from O’Rourke’s mandatory confiscation solution. There simply would be no other reason for Biden to bring O’Rourke into his promised administration in the putative role as gun czar. Their positions are identical.
In the viral video in question that the auto worker mentioned, Biden, sitting with O’Rourke appears to state, “This guy [O’Rourke] can change the face of what we’re dealing with, with regards to guns, assault weapons, and … if I win, I’m coming for them.”
Some Biden apologists might argue that the Beto elevation is merely political pandering in an attempt to appeal to more youthful voters and should be ignored as nothing other than an empty promise from a B-flat politician, or that he said “I’m coming for him,” referring to O’Rourke, which makes no sense. If Biden wins, why would he “come for” O’Rourke?
But even if you disregard that video, in Michigan, Biden clearly threatened to confiscate the auto worker’s guns when he said, “we’ll take your AR-14s away.”
Biden’s record during his 36 year Senate career shows a significant swing toward favoring gun ban schemes. In the later years of his Senate tenure, Biden took a number of anti-Second Amendment positions including a 2004 vote for extending a semi-auto ban for ten years.
Given Biden’s vote sixteen years ago to ban the sale of certain semi-automatic firearms, and his current campaign attacks on socialist Bernie Sanders as being too pro-gun, it is laughable for the former Senator from Delaware to claim some pro-Second Amendment mantle. The attack on Sanders is based upon his vote against a 2005 bill which protected firearm manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers from product liability lawsuits when their products performed as designed.
The intent of the firearm-oriented product liability lawsuits was to drive every gun manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer out of business, by creating a liability to which no other product was subjected. Even Bernie Sanders realized that if the misuse of firearms that were lawfully sold and performed flawlessly created liability for the manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer that it would drive those businesses into bankruptcy. And if the courts used that same standard to products like automobiles in which more than 50,000 Americans die each year, many through their misuse by drunk drivers or those who don’t follow the rules of the road, our nation would shortly be heading back to horse and buggy days.
Yet, Joe Biden who is currently attacking Sanders for voting to keep our nation’s product liability system free of politically driven, anti-firearm ownership lawsuits while on the other hand claiming to support the Second Amendment.
After looking at Biden’s record and his current campaign, the one thing which is clear is that there was only one person in Biden’s Michigan conversation about the Second Amendment who was full of it, and Joe Biden looks at that person in the mirror every day when he shaves.
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Rick Manning is the President of Americans for Limited Government.
Photo “Joe Biden” by Gage Skidmore. CC BY-SA 2.0. Background Photo “Gun Show” by M&R Glasgow. CC BY 2.0.
People need to take a look at some of these Supreme Court Decisions.
For a crime to exist, there must be an injured party (Corpus Delicti) There can be no sanction or penalty imposed on one because of this Constitutional right.” Sherer v. Cullen 481 F. 945:
With no injured party, a complaint is invalid on its face”. Gibson v. Boyle, 139 Ariz. 512
Supreme courts ruled “Without Corpus delicti there can be no crime”“In every prosecution for crime it is necessary to establish the “corpus delecti”, i.e., the body or elements of the crime.” People v. Lopez, 62 Ca.Rptr. 47, 254 C.A.2d 185.
Government must prove a crime/violation of the law has occurred before a person can be subjected to the law.
Red Flag laws deny a person their Right when they can not establish a “corpus delecti”.
Only a Constitutional Amendment can change the Constitution,
Neither the Federal or State Governments have authority to “Legislate” a law to change the Constitution,
“When rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them. [Miranda v. Arizona, 384 US 436, 491.]
Red Flag laws change the “Bill of Rights”.
Citizens have a “DUTY” to use their guns to protect the Constitution as the “Supreme Law of the Land”,
“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.”
“when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security”.
And Citizens can not be penalized/persecuted for exercise their Constitutional Duty and Rights.
There can be no sanction or penalty imposed on one because of this Constitutional right.” Sherer v. Cullen 481 F. 945:
These Gun Laws are violating too many of the principles set forth in the Constitution, and it’s going to come to a head.
Joe Biden might be the best thing that ever happen to this country, he might start another Civil war where all the Liberals, Socialist, Abortionist, Democrats, are eliminated from the planet.
Import tariffs started the last Civil War, but in the end freed the country from slavery, people like Biden will lite the fuse to destroy people like him.
Biden will not remember what he has promised next week much less if he somehow gets elected. Whoever would be his VP will be running things along with Hillary.
Come and take it!
You needn’t worry. Biden is a closet white racist de facto Republican who authored massive prison construction, police brutality, stop and frisk, the practice of redlining to preserve neighborhood segregation, supports endless wars overseas,, opposes action against climate change, and opposed any health care form (his threat to veto any single-payer/public option insurance), etc., shows his true side.
Strangely enough, the black voters who supported Biden at the polls nonetheless prefer Sander’s agenda to that of Biden. I don’t know if black voters will somehow force Biden to move leftward or not. Personally, I think black voters shot themselves in the foot by rejecting Sanders in favor of Biden. Even if Sanders looses the nomination next summer, he could still derail Biden by refusing to endorse him and by pushing for tough debates with him.
If Trump gets re-elected (a very high possibility), the blame will not be on Sanders, but on Biden and the craven Democrat Establishment “centrists”.
As for gun rights, Sanders was fairly friendly to gun-owners in Vermont during his career there.
William, Good point about Sanders and Vermont. Historically, it’s had the most Constitutional and classically liberal gun laws, that is, basically none. The Federal Government also has NO delegated powers for gun laws pertaining to the People, EXCEPT “for governing such part of them (the militia) as may be EMPLOYED in its service.” (Article I, Section 8.16). And according to the wording of the 10th Amendment, the Federal Government shall do NOTHING without delegated power. That’s “the rule of law”.
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Biden is the “swamp” personified.