Delaware/United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- There are some questions you can easily answer. One of them is Joe Biden’s stance on the Second Amendment. Here’s the quick scoop: He’s been hostile to our rights for over four decades.
Biden, though, stands out for his unwavering opposition to modern multi-purpose semi-automatic firearms. In November, 2017, he expressly stated that Stephen Willeford, the heroic armed citizen who stopped the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, should not have been able to buy the AR-15 he used to stop the attack.
Of course, the former vice president and senator never really addressed the fact that had the shooter’s conviction for domestic assault been entered into NICS in the first place, the shooting would not have happened. The victims became pawns in his latest push for sweeping gun control.
At times during the Obama Administration, Biden was out there, pushing for semi-auto bans after shootings. He even offered some astonishingly dumb advice about firing a shotgun blast into the air – disregarding a basic tenant of firearms safety. Yet despite displaying that he lacks the common sense to recognize that “what goes up must come down,” he thinks he knows better than the rest of us what firearms we should or should not be able to acquire for protection (or for hunting or any other lawful purpose). Anyone who takes Biden’s advice is just asking for legal trouble in both the criminal and civil areas.
In the 1990s, he voted for the 1994 ban on modern multi-purpose semi-automatic firearms, for the Brady Act, and for Frank Lautenberg’s effort to destroy gun shows. He voted against the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act in both 2004 and 2005. In 2004, he ranted against the legislation, intended to stop the back-door effort at gun control that was being carried out by big-city mayors.
In 2007, Biden included (against the evidence provided by Chicago and Washington, DC – among other places) more gun control as a purported means to control crime – including an arbitrary ban on modern multi-purpose semi-automatic firearms and legislation intended to destroy gun shows in a crime bill.
Let’s face it people, Biden has cultivated an image over the years as a relative moderate. When it comes to Second Amendment issues, though, you should not believe it.
He is as much an anti-Second Amendment extremist as Dianne Feinstein is – and he is arguably more dangerous.
While Feinstein makes no bones about her opposition to the Second Amendment, Biden does very well at putting far too many gun owners at ease with the “I don’t want your deer rifle, I just want the AR-15 gone” schtick. In short, Joe Biden is arguably the most dangerous general election opponent for President Trump, and Second Amendment supporters should act accordingly.
Now for an important footnote to this: Anyone who wants to really learn about how to protect yourself at home (or elsewhere) or who wants to learn how to handle firearms safely should go to the NRA web site to find local instructors who can offer courses to fulfill your educational needs. We have a Second Amendment right, but with it comes the responsibility to know how to exercise it in a safe manner for ourselves, our loved ones, and our fellow citizens.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
Confucius say, “He that fart in church sit in his own pew”.
My base on all of the Demo-Rats is that the main flow here on Ammo Land probably feel the same if it was a Republican or Independent or true Conservative, would have been Tared and Feathered, and hung out to Dry in a public arena for a public stoning !!!!!! Not so from any Demo-Rat, they come up with a mouth full of excuses, and followed by a full pardon for all of them, NO TRIAL, NO INVESTIGATIONS, NO JAIL TIME, oh we didn’t mean to do it, so we just get a pass, to go on with this is… Read more »
“Moe ,Larry ,the CHEESE !”
“Guns Everywhere” and opposition to common sense safety legislation like universal background checks is not the Second Amendment. Its gun industry profit driven gun sales marketing. Joe Biden is a moderate, unlike the writers at AmmoLand. He is also a gentleman and has served America in the US Senate and as Vice President.
And America still has, as of this moment, the worst per capita gun violence rate in the developed world and Oliver North is still a convicted gun trafficker who lied to Congress.
Peg, I’m not going to aim a personal attack at you. All the above did that very well. I would ask that you do an in-depth study of the Bill of Rights and why they were enshrined in the Constitution. Why are they the first ten amendments included? You are, like some others here, going strictly by emotion. Stop. Humans have the ability and responsibility to use reason and logic. Too many don’t. That’s why the anger gets rolling.
All these democrats seem to know how to use the 1st amendment in full auto mode. Maybe we should limits their 1st amendment rights to to 10 words or less. Maybe Joe bite me. Is using his 10 women assault limit. Both peg and bite me are assault weapons. And need to be banned
Here is a troubling thought the NRA has not been standing up against these red flag laws I would like to know why I myself am physically disabled Troublesome thought today and yesterday as I went to my heart doctor and had to fill out yearly paperwork first question owner paperwork what is do I own a firearm today at my primary doctor once again third question on the paperwork do I own a firearm it seems to me there is a push or a movement to take away the disabled right to bear arms and protect their families and… Read more »
Of course, the 2nd doesnt give us the right to defend ourselves, it does establish the governments responsibility to defend that right. And all the others too. I know that i am a free man, and i will never ask permission from anyone, to arm myself. I love and respect our country, and its constitution, but i have no problem whatsoever, trampling on any law that is unconstitutional. And i will always do exactly what the hell i want to do. There is not a nut moonbat liberal alive, whose opinion of me affects me in any way whatsoever.
Peg, your blatant display of arrogance, propaganda, and lack of mental fortitude displays your total lack of knowledge and common sense. You meaning the left leaning, brainless squids have lost your minds. The 2nd is here because our founders knew that there would come a day that our government will do exactly what the Democrats are trying to push right now. The violence we see is mainly from the left. Beware when you keep poking the bear, the bear will eventually fight back. Stop poking the bear. Patriots will defend our constitution. I swore an oath several times. That oath… Read more »
Maybe this Peg is hoping he will kiss her on the back of the head while he is rubbing her shoulders and who knows what else. If he was a republican they would have already berated him to death, but being a democrat makes his actions acceptable because he is just being affectionate. When he man handles young girls and it is recorded that would give anyone a pause. By the way, where is the good doctor Mrs. with all this going on. You don’t see any of her blond hair floating about. He has got to be the stupidest… Read more »