That puppet that we call the 46th President is making news again. He and Vice President (President?) Harris are definitely making their intentions completely clear this week: they desire nothing less than to completely demolish the U.S. Constitution as we know it. Our rights are going to be whittled away and chipped down one by one until we have nothing at all, and pretty soon we might even start being jealous of people that lived in the Former Soviet Union. How is the Biden/Harris team going to start? By ruining your gun rights, that’s how.
President Joseph Robinette Biden is on record for calling gun control a “public health crisis.” Additionally, he has made some rather bizarre claims in his ugly quest to take away your gun rights. For instance, he has made some flippant remarks to the press, including this quote: “There isn’t anything that I am going to recommend to the House or Senate that will infringe on the Second Amendment. These arguments are phony and it doesn’t mean that the Second Amendment is at stake with what I am talking about.”
“There is no amendment to the Constitution that is absolute. You aren’t allowed to yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theater and claim freedom of speech. From the very beginning of the Second Amendment, you weren’t allowed to own just any type of firearm that you wanted,” he continued.
Well, the man has either failed a basic reading comprehension class, or he isn’t reading the same Constitution as the rest of us. After detailing his onslaught of “gun control measures designed to tighten restrictions on homemade ‘ghost guns’, along with new regulations for stabilizing braces.” Apparently, President Biden is also interested in pursuing a “red flag” law that will temporarily bar certain individuals that have been designated as threats from the ability to possess a gun.
Debunking Biden’s Lies About the Constitution and the Second Amendment
When Biden mentioned the “fire in a crowded theater” argument, he was invoking a faulty argument that had actually been reversed by the Supreme Court. This legal reference was actually a precept that had been tossed out by the Supreme Court in Brandenburg v. Ohio.
One of the things that the Brandenburg decision was to create “The Brandenburg Test” regarding freedom of speech. Consider the following: (1) speech can be prohibited if it is “directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and (2) it is “likely to incite or produce such action.”
And Biden’s argument that from the very beginning certain people were not allowed to own firearms? That’s bunk as well. For example, there are even examples of caselaw where a private citizen can own a cannon. One example of this during revolutionary war times would be privateers, who were commonplace up through the mid 18th Century. They indeed owned cannons, and there was no law against them doing so.
According to the Statesman,
“Historians have always said that they are incredibly doubtful that there were ever any laws that would bar individual ownership of certain weapons such as cannons. David Kopel, the Second Amendment project director for the Independence Institute, agreed, saying, “I am not aware of a ban on any individual arm in the colonies. Yes, there were controls on people and in various locations, but there were never any bans on types of arms.”
Finally, an extra word regarding those privateers:
“Privateers were privately owned and operated ships that would capture enemy ships for profit during wartime. They did receive a license from the government to avoid being prosecuted for piracy, but they were not a part of any government’s official navy. They would set sail with cannons, but those were private property.”
Gun Grabbing: An Incoherent Argument
If this illustrates anything to liberals, it should be that the Second Amendment is an absolute document, and it ALWAYS HAS BEEN THAT WAY. Every single Supreme Court ruling throughout history has affirmed and reaffirmed the right to keep and bear arms.
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