On Thursday, during a brief visit to a Nantucket firehouse, President Joe Biden said what we have always known, that he wants to ban all semi-automatic firearms:
Number two, the idea — the idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It’s just sick. It has no, no social redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.
While the media tried to cover for him and reported he really meant to say so-called "assault weapons", it's right there in the official White House document of what he said, and it took until yesterday for the White House to come out with an official clarification:
Q A couple questions about the lame duck agenda. The President said last week that he was going to try to ban assault weapons during the session. What does that look like? Is he making calls? Is he taking meetings on this? Has he tasked the team with working on this? And does he think that 60 votes are actually possible here, that’s within reach somehow?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So I’m so glad you asked the question, Mary, because this morning, when I was in the Oval Office in a meeting with the President, he actually brought this up himself, because he knows how his comments were reported over the weekend. And he wanted to be very clear, and he said that, you know, he believes that it’s important to keep this issue — in banning assault weapons — at the front of minds of Americans.
The problem with Biden is he says exactly what he thinks, and because he said semi-automatic instead of "assault weapons" that is what he really wants to do. As Jim Geraghty over at National Review wrote today, if Democrats feel they are unfairly accused of wanting to ban almost all privately owned firearms, it might help if the president would stop sayings these type of things in front of television cameras and saying he wants to ban almost all privately owned firearms.
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