President Joe Biden reacted to semi-automatic gun owners like a cranky old man yelling, “Get off my lawn, you kids!”
The president likened allowing such guns to be privately owned to an illness, during a Wednesday Nantucket, Massachusetts, press briefing.
“[T]he idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick,” President Biden exclaimed. “It’s just sick.”
The Conservative Brief further reported:
President Joe Biden took aim at lawful gun owners again this week following a pair of shootings at a club in Colorado and a Walmart in Virginia.
In remarks to a reporter, Biden lashed out at all Americans who own “semi-automatic” guns, which, according to published data, amount to more than half of all firearms in private hands.
During a press event in Nantucket, Mass., Biden specifically referenced the shooting in Colorado Springs, Colo., where a self-described “non-binary” gunman killed five patrons and wounded nearly 20 others at Club Q, a hot spot for the gay and lesbian community.
“The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick,” Biden said. “Just sick. It has no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.”
Another reporter went on to ask the president if he thought he could make any progress on new gun control laws when Republicans take control of the House in January, responding that he would have to take stock of votes first.
“I’m going to try,” Biden said. “I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.”
The president was blasted over his remarks for his overly generalized statement regarding firearms and the tens of millions of Americans who own them.
“So essentially all guns are on the Big Guy’s chopping block,” Hollywood actor James Woods tweeted.
“Wow. Are there any guns Biden would not ban?” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton noted on Twitter.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said that Biden was “maligning most gun owners” and added that Americans rejected recent gun control proposals floated by outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
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