Biden MOCKS Second Amendment & says believers in the right to bear arms ‘need nuclear weapons’ to take on US government
PRESIDENT Joe Biden mocked the Second Amendment on Wednesday and said people who support the right to bear arms "need nuclear weapons" to take on the United States government.
The president commented on the as he unveiled a "" policy with firearms dealers who break federal laws, blamed the rising crime rate across the US on guns, and said states are allowed to use $350billion in Covid funding to hire more cops.
"Those who say the 'blood of patriots,' you know, and all the stuff about how we’re gonna have to move against the government. Well, the tree of liberty has not been watered with the blood of patriots.
"What’s happened is that there have never been, if you want to, think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons."
Biden continued: "The point is that there has always been the ability to limit — rationally limit the type of weapon that can be owned and who can own it."
This Amendment has been interpreted as the right to have a military and as the right for every American to own a gun, regardless of circumstances.
"We know that if there is a strict enforcement of background checks, then fewer guns get into the hands of criminals," the president said.
Before the speech, Biden was criticized by who claim that the surge in crime has no link to guns.
“For the past year, the anti-gun Left looked the other way when rioters were destroying cities and murdering civilians and cops.
"Not only that, the anti-gun Left began releasing criminals early from jail and started defunding the police in several big cities," he added.
“The police were vilified so badly that they began retiring early in droves. Others took extended time off work or suffered from the 'blue flu.’”
“Crime is exploding in Democrat-run cities ... this is 100% the result of their left-wing policies of defunding the police, backing BLM / ANTIFA, destroying families, and coddling of criminals!” she wrote.
Biden has shown opposition to the “Defund the Police” movement and had a record of being tough on crime when he was a senator.
It comes amid a crime surge and fears for a violent summer fueled by the pandemic that has caused economic hardship, displacement, and anxiety.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday that nationwide there has been a double-digit increase in murder and violent crime.
“It is staggering. It is sobering,” she said at a violent-crime forum held by the Washington-based Police Executive Research Forum.
“And it’s something that the DOJ is committed to doing all we can to reverse what are profoundly troubling trends.”
She added that to tackle the violence, the Justice Department would launch strike forces in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC.
The forces would target violent crime caused by illegal gun trafficking.
Former President Donald Trump and then-Attorney General Bill Barr announced a similar approach last summer.
He blamed the spike in crime last year on the Black Lives Matter movement and George Floyd protests.
Biden’s announcement on Wednesday adds he introduced in April following a wave of mass shootings.
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They included a crack down on “ghost guns,” homemade firearms that lack serial numbers used to trace them and that are often purchased without a background check.
Ahead of the remarks, Biden is scheduled to meet with AG Garland as well as the Democratic mayors of Baltimore and Miami-Dade County, the Republican mayor of Rapid City, South Dakota; the Democratic attorney general of New Jersey; the police chief in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and community activists.