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As we all know, President Joe Biden gave a speech and announced some executive orders which are purported to combat gun violence.
And there was much applause, and even more squinting as he strained to look at the teleprompter. Biden starts speaking about 3:30 in.
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And a lot of it comes from the back end of a bull.
Now, it’s one thing to propose regulations that have something to do with an actual problem, but it’s another to regulate something that isn’t a problem just for the sake of regulating something.
So let’s go over what he got wrong.
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Believe it or not, gun control is just as much a class issue as it is an issue of the abridgement of freedoms for misguided reasons.
Naturally, those who advocate for increasingly tighter restrictions on firearms ownership insist that it’s in the name of savings lives when anyone who actually knows anything can tell right away they just want fewer people buying guns, period.
What isn’t always appreciated about the role of firearms in human history is that they democratized the use of force.
Most people have heard that old saw about “God made all men, but Sam Colt made ’em equal.” While it’s not strictly speaking completely true, it’s not entirely an exaggeration either.