A NATIONAL EMBARRASSNENT ..... MASS SHOOTINGS OR JOE BIDEN?

Biden: "I'm the only one that ever got a 10-year ban on assault weapons and clips of more than 10 bullets"

 

BarkGrowlBite

April 18, 2021

 

During Friday's press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, President Biden was asked about the mass shootings and police-involved shootings.  Here is the question and Biden's response:

ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER AAMER MADHANI: I’d like to just ask you, what would you say to many Americans who voted for you about the legislative progress on gun control and police reform having to wait while you pursue infrastructure, given that we continue to see these incidents with mass shootings and also police-involved shootings, including the incident that a lot of us saw in Chicago most recently?  Do you feel any need to reprioritize your agenda?

PRESIDENT BIDEN:  I’ve never not prioritized this.  No one has worked harder to deal with the violence used by individuals using weapons than I have.  I’m the only one ever to have passed an assault weapons ban.  I’m the only one that ever got a 10-year ban on assault weapons and clips of more than 10 bullets. 

Immediately upon us becoming in office, having an attorney general, I asked him to put together the things I could do by executive order, including dealing with new guns that can be made — you can buy in pieces and put together, and other — and other initiatives.

I strongly support — I strongly support the universal background checks, which I continue to push.  The Congress has to step up and act.  The Senate has to act.

And I strongly support and continue — I’ve never stopped supporting the ban on assault weapons and magazines that hold more than 10 — 10 bullets. 

It doesn’t mean that I can’t also be working at the same time on the economy and on COVID.  But it’s not a question of my being able to set the agenda in the Senate as to what they will move to first.  And so I continue and I strongly, strongly urge my Republican friends in the Congress who even refused to bring up the House-passed bill to bring it up now. 

This has to end.  It’s a national embarrassment.  It is a national embarrassment what’s going on.  And it’s not only these mass shootings that are occurring.  Every single day — every single day, there’s a mass shooting in this United — in the United States if you count all those who are killed out on the streets of our cities and our rural areas.  It’s a national embarrassment and must come to an end. 

And one last thing: The folks who own weapons, the folks who own guns, they support universal background checks.  The majority of them think we should not be selling assault weapons.  Who, in God’s name, needs a weapon that can hold 100 rounds or 40 rounds or 20 rounds?  It’s just wrong.  And I’m not going to give up until it’s done.  

EDITOR'S NOTE: Where does Biden get that crap about the majority of gun owners thinking we should not be selling assault weapons?  This is just one of many incorrect statements he's made since becoming president.  Now that's a national embarrassment!

"Who, in God's name, needs a weapon that can hold 100 rounds or 40 rounds or 20 rounds?"  All of us patriots who want to help our military repel the Chinese troops that will invade America.