The big story of the day is that PolitiFact actually fact-checked something stupid Joe Biden said and determined it to be false. Unfortunately they fact-checked the wrong thing when Biden claimed we shouldn’t be allowed to own “machine guns” because the colonists weren’t allowed to own cannons during the Revolutionary war. PolitiFact found no law that banned individual cannon ownership during Revolutionary times but completely ignored that machine guns are already banned. Hey, baby steps.
Last month Biden did a video in which he answered Google auto-fill questions like “Does Joe Biden sniff hair?” Almost nobody watched this thing which is a shame because he’s completely nuts the entire way through. When he got to “What’s Joe Biden’s position on control?” this was his answer:
“Number one, assault weapons are weapons of death,” started Biden.
This was PolitiFact’s first missed opportunity to fact-check. What he calls “assault weapons” are not assault weapons but rather semi-automatic firearms. Also, all weapons including blunt and edged ones, were designed to kill so, while factually true, this statement is redundant.
“They have no rationale for being owned by individuals on the street,” said Biden.
In the second missed opportunity to fact-check, the 2nd Amendment is all the rationale needed for individuals to own guns in their homes or on the street: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed is crystal clear about that.
“They should be outlawed. They were eliminated, they came back. We had a 10-year elimination of them,” claimed Biden.
False. The Clinton-era assault weapons ban didn’t eliminate one single weapon. I had an AR-15 before the ban, during the ban, and still have it. It never disappeared nor did it magically reappear.
“From the very beginning you weren’t allowed to have certain weapons. You weren’t allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual,” Biden said.
This is where PolitiFact finally came in and determined:
Biden said, “You weren’t allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.”
The campaign was unable to come up with an example of a law banning private ownership of cannons, and historians of the period doubt that any existed. To the contrary, there are documented instances of privateers, or privately owned vessels, setting sail with cannons during the period.
We rate the statement False.
Still, PolitiFact missed some other things in this false claim. Biden is completely out of his mind and when he speaks it’s pure nonsense. He said “from the very beginning you weren’t allowed to own certain weapons” meaning the beginning of the rule of law in the United States. That happened in 1789 when the Constitution was put into action. The Revolutionary War was over in 1783. For Biden to say the Constitution banned individual cannon ownership during the Revolutionary War is completely absurd and requires several levels of fact-checking.
But the biggest thing Politifact missed is that Biden claims that there was gun control restrictions from the beginning of this country. Our Founding Fathers put the 2nd Amendment into the Constitution to make sure there would be no restrictions on private gun ownership. Period.
It’s weird that PolitiFact actually attempted to fact-check Joe Biden even if it was a completely half-assed job. I suspect they did this to give the impression of impartiality and to distract from the fact that they ignore 99.9% of all Joe’s lies, which is 100% of the time he speaks.
And BTW, when I typed in in “Is Joe Biden…” this was my result:
For some reason he didn’t answer all of these questions in the video.
