Joe Biden Urges Voters To Make 2020 The Year For Gun Control
(Breitbart) – Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden launched into the New Year by urging voters to make 2020 the year for gun control.
Biden did this while re-tweeting an Associated Press story which showed an elevated number of mass killings in the U.S. in 2019.
Ironically, the list was not simply about firearm-related killings, it included killings carried out with axes, knives, and other weapons too.
Moreover, the AP story showed California–the state with more gun control than any other–also had the most “mass slayings” of any state in 2019.
But Biden re-tweeted the story anyway, and used it to call for gun control:
2019 was a year of record violence — it will be a moral failure if we allow 2020 to be the same. We have to elect leaders with the courage to take on the @NRA and pass common-sense gun safety reform. We have to end this epidemic. twitter.com/latimes/status…
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On December 29, 2019, armed congregants at West Freeway Church of Christ, White Settlement, Texas, responded to an armed attacker. One congregant shot and killed the perpetrator just seconds after the attack began.
Just months earlier, Biden had criticized Texas’ law allowing concealed carriers to be armed in church for self-defense. He described the law as “absolutely irrational.”
Flashback: Joe Biden: Owners Should Be Liable If Guns ‘Not Under Lock And Key’
Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden used the October 2, MSNBC / Gabby Giffords / March for Our Lives gun control forum to suggest gun owners ought to be liable if they do not keep their firearms “under lock and key.”
Biden said, “If you left you keys in a car out here and some kid picks that car…and kills somebody driving around the parking lot, you’re liable. Why in God’s name, if you have a weapon at home and it’s not under lock and key, should you not be held liable?”
He added, “We should have a federal law making that the case,” as the crowd of gun controllers applauded.
Biden also pushed to allow gun manufacturers to be sued, and to outfit firearms with biometric readers. He said, “Right now, we have the technology to go out and make sure no one can fire a pistol, a rifle, any weapon, without their biometric marker on it. That exists, that technology exists.”
He did not say whether Secret Service agents should be limited to only using firearms with biometric readers on them.
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