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Conservatives and gun rights supporters were alarmed by President Joe Biden’s Thursday evening speech encouraging a new ban on “assault weapons” in the United States. Despite the president’s assertion that he will never “take out anyone’s weapons”, the Conservatives noted that his proposals would do so.
During the speech, Biden lamented the loss of life in recent mass shootings, such as at a school in Uvalde, Texas, and proposed several bans that he thought would minimize these hate crimes.
“We need to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. And if we can’t ban assault weapons, we should raise the age to buy them from 18 to 21,” he said. Biden added that the country must also “strengthen background checks; enact safe storage laws and red flag; repeal immunity, which protects weapons manufacturers from responsibility; address the mental health crisis, deepening the trauma of gun violence. “
Although Biden insisted, “I want to be very clear: it’s not about taking up arms. It’s not about insulting gun owners.” Elsewhere in the speech, the commander-in-chief reiterated that the Second Amendment “is not absolute.”
BIDEN SAYS THE SECOND AMENDMENT “IS NOT ABSOLUTE” TO THE CREATED TO RESTORE THE PROHIBITION OF ASS Weapons.
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 2: U.S. President Joe Biden comments on recent mass shootings from the White House on June 2, 2022 in Washington, DC. Speaking at prime time, Biden spoke of the need for Congress to pass legislation on gun control following a wave of mass shootings, including the murder of 19 students and two teachers in an elementary school. in Uvalde, Texas, and a racial shooting in Buffalo. New York that left 10 dead. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)
He also criticized Republican lawmakers for their reluctance to accept such “common sense measures,” as he called them. Biden said, “But my God, the fact that most Republicans in the Senate don’t even want any of these proposals to be debated or put to a vote seems inconceivable to me. We can’t fail the people of the north again. -American. “
Conservatives on Twitter were not buying the speech, calling it an undisguised attempt to attack the Second Amendment and U.S. gun owners.
Conservative activist and Republican Congress candidate Robby Starbuck cut to the heart of Biden’s message, tweeting: “Everything Joe Biden proposed today is a threat to the Second Amendment, but the worst thing is to repeal the immunity of “If they end up being responsible for every criminal who misuses a gun, it will go bankrupt and there will be no weapons for sale. It’s a total ban on weapons.”
“This is an attempt to take communist control,” Starbuck added in another tweet.
Washington Times columnist Tim Young has hinted that Biden wants to disarm Americans because they are his enemy. “Biden is arming Ukraine because he believes they are allies. Biden wants to disarm the Americans because he believes they are enemies,” he tweeted.
Townhall.com editor-in-chief Spencer Brown criticized the president for blaming the GOP, when Democrat-run cities like Chicago face a major crime. “Biden said the GOP was the problem in its comments on armed violence tonight. But in 2021, a dozen U.S. cities broke their homicide records. All of them are led by Democrats.” write.
“The answer to everything Joe Biden is saying is no,” tweeted The Spectator contributing editor Stephen L. Miller as he watched the speech.
Conservative commentator John Cardillo tweeted, “Until Hunter Biden is prosecuted for violating federal gun laws by lying about his 4473, Dementia Man should keep his senile mouth shut with guns,” referring to allegations that the The president’s own son has bought weapons illegally in the past.
During a speech on Thursday promoting new gun laws, Biden proposed repealing “the immunity that protects arms manufacturers from liability.” (STOCK)
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk tweeted: “The lines have just been drawn from the White House. Biden is coming to get our weapons. It’s time to get to work. [Good] sort of, Joe. “
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Called on Biden for her apparent hypocrisy on the issue. She tweeted: “Joe Biden wants to ban ‘assault weapons’ and ‘high-capacity magazines’, but Democrats refuse to prosecute violent crimes in Democratic cities across the country and refuse to protect your children at school in armed security. Democrats themselves are protected by armed guards on a daily basis. “
DEMOCRATIC DEMOCATES DENY THAT THEY ARE COMING FOR AMERICAN WEAPONS WHILE SIGNALING SUPPORT FOR Weapons Prohibition
“Wow, inflation is so bad that Biden would rather talk about disarming Americans, destroying the Second Amendment and attacking other civil liberties,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton tweeted.
Conservative author Ann Coulter wrote: “Biden: Sandy Hook’s shooter came from a house full of guns! He also came from a house where his father had moved BECAUSE THE CHILD WAS A BONKER. SOMETHING ABOUT BOGES. Hello? ACLU? “
People react outside the Civic Center after a deadly shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (Photo AP / Dario Lopez-Mills)
Conservative writer Kyle Becker hampered Biden’s speech, tweeting: “ENOUGH with this fake press conference, Biden. Your whispers and creepy cries about atypical statistics will not change the facts about armed violence. There are 150 million law-abiding gun owners in the U.S. “The worst gun crime is in Democrat-controlled cities with gun control. ENOUGH.”
And Conservative writer Carmine Sabia said Biden’s speech made it clear that his administration would come for the weapons of the Americans: “If you don’t understand Joe Biden’s speech tonight, yes, they will come for your weapons. “All of them. Allowing people to denounce gun manufacturers. End gun rights in the United States without having to change the Second Amendment.”
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