Biden repeats false attack on the Second Amendment that even WaPo debunked

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— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) February 3, 2022

BASEDPolitics' Brad Polumbo writes, “On Thursday, President Biden gave public remarks where he renewed his calls to ban ‘assault weapons.’ (A vague term that generally refers to scary-looking guns.) To justify this ban, Biden argued that the Second Amendment isn’t absolute—and in doing so, the president falsely claimed that the Second Amendment banned cannons in early American history.

‘[Banning assault weapons] doesn’t violate anybody’s Second Amendment rights,’ he said. ‘There is no amendment that is absolute.’

Then Biden got into historical analysis that was… interesting.

‘When the amendment was passed it didn’t say anybody can own a gun and any kind of weapon,’ Biden claimed. ‘You couldn’t buy a cannon when this amendment was passed, so there’s no reason you should be able to buy certain assault weapons.’

This bizarre aside is more than a non sequitur. It’s actually false. As Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler noted in September 2021:

‘You do not have to look far in the Constitution to see that private individuals could own cannons.”

Read the entire column.