President Joe Biden once again blasted 2nd Amendment supporters on Tuesday following a recent string of mass shootings across the U.S.
During a fundraising event in California, Biden took a swipe at 2nd Amendment backers and reminded them that they would “need an F-16” to challenge the federal government.
“We have to change,” the president said. “There’s a lot of things we can change, because the American people by and large agree you don’t need a weapon of war. I’m a Second Amendment guy. I taught it for four years, six years in law school. And guess what? It doesn’t say that you can own any weapon you want. It says there are certain weapons that you just can’t own. Even during when it was passed, you couldn’t own a cannon. You can’t own a machine gun.… No, I’m serious.”
“You know, I love these guys who say the Second Amendment is — you know, the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots. Well, if [you] want to do that, you want to work against the government, you need an F-16. You need something else than just an AR-15,” he added.
Biden also suggested that the popularity of AR-15s among gun makers comes from their cheap production costs and high profit margins.
“You know one of the reasons why the AR-15 is so strongly supported by so many folks in that — in that industry? Number one, it’s the cheapest weapon to make and it’s the highest profit motive they have for any weapon that is made. It makes more money to sell an AR-15 than any other weapon you can buy,” he said.
Discussions on gun control legislation have been a hot-button issue recently after a series of mass shootings in the country. Since then, Biden has reiterated his rhetoric against the 2nd Amendment.
During a speech earlier this year, the president stated unequivocally, “We’re going to ban assault weapons,” adding, “We banned it once, we’re going to do it again, and the number of bullets that can be in a clip.”
It is unclear what he means when he refers to “assault weapons,” considering they are already illegal, which suggests that Biden is trying to redefine what makes an “assault weapon.”
