Guns are used more times in self-defense annually than in violent crimes. No one pushing for gun control cares about your safety.@brad_polumbo for BASEDPolitics: https://t.co/D14g5BAHAw

— 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.

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Under current law, self-defense isn’t considered a sufficient justification to get a concealed carry permit. https://t.co/eEMu2zvrTG

— FEE (@feeonline) November 8, 2021

FEE’s Brad Polumbo writes, In a landmark 2010 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that in addition to the federal government, states must also respect the public’s individual constitutional right to bear arms. Yet the high court has neglected to take any more major Second Amendment cases in the decade since that would have further clarified the scope of this ruling, leading conservative Justice Clarence Thomas to dub the Second Amendment a ‘disfavored right.’ As a result, many states have found ways to work around Supreme Court precedent and drastically restrict the ability of law-abiding people to carry firearms to protect themselves.

Yet, this could all soon change.”

Read the entire column.

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I offered gun-grabbing House Democrats examples of “good guys with a gun” stopping “bad guys with a gun.” pic.twitter.com/KohwyVQa8q

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) November 2, 2021

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Real Clear Investigations reports, “These are just a few of the nearly 1,000 instances reported by the media so far this year in which gun owners have stopped mass shootings and other murderous acts, saving countless lives. And crime experts say such high-profile cases represent only a small fraction of the instances in which guns are used defensively…

There Are Far More Defensive Gun Uses Than Murders in America. Here’s Why You Rarely Hear of Them.
While Americans know that guns take many innocent lives every year, many don’t know firearms also save them.
An in-depth disc of the media’s biashttps://t.co/1LqQMe7pOr#2A #DGU

— John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) September 22, 2021

Americans who look only at the daily headlines would be surprised to learn that, according to academic estimates, defensive gun uses — including instances when guns are simply shown to deter a crime — are four to five times more common than gun crimes, and far more frequent than the fewer than 20,000 murders each year, with or without a gun. But even when they prevent mass public shootings, defensive uses rarely get national news coverage.”

Read the entire story.

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The government apparently trusts the Taliban with guns more than it trusts you

The Libertarian Party’s Spike Cohen makes a simple but important point.

Why don’t they trust us? ? @RealSpikeCohen pic.twitter.com/G5GE5AtMgZ

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) August 24, 2021

And it’s not just guns!

“Video showed the advancing insurgents inspecting long lines of vehicles and opening crates of new firearms, communications gear and even military drones,” Reuters reported.

“Everything that hasn’t been destroyed is the Taliban’s now,’ one U.S. official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters.”

All in all, the U.S. spent $2 trillion and twenty years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, only this time they have more U.S.-made weapons than ever before.

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