When the ‘Fact-Checker’ gets it right back at them<\/p>\n
PolitiFact Claims Joe Biden \u2018Doesn\u2019t Want to Ban Handguns,\u2019 But Here Are His Actual Words.<\/a><\/p>\n Joe Biden has been pretty clear about his desire to ban handguns.<\/p>\n During his CNN town hall last week, Biden was asked, \u201cSo, how will you address gun violence, from a federal point of view, to actually bring about change and make our local cities safer?\u201d<\/p>\n In his response, Biden told the woman who asked the question: \u201cThe idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon \u2014 whether it\u2019s a \u2014\u00a0whether it\u2019s a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it\u2019s a rifle \u2014 is ridiculous<\/strong>. I\u2019m continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n In response to the tweet from House Republicans declaring that Biden \u201csays he wants to ban handguns,\u201d PolitiFact claims \u201cthe clip doesn\u2019t back up the GOP tweet, and the full transcript goes further to sink this claim.\u201d<\/p>\n PolitiFact claims that the numbers cited by Biden \u201capply to assault-style firearms and high-capacity magazines. As recently as June, when Biden rolled out his strategy to bring down murders, he said he wants to ban both.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cExperts disagree over what is or isn\u2019t an assault weapon. States set different thresholds for what qualifies as a high-capacity magazine,\u201d PolitiFact continued, before adding, \u201cBut regardless of the definition, neither term includes all handguns.\u201d<\/p>\n Did anyone say Biden wants to ban\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0handguns? Nope. Yet, PolitiFact unwittingly admitted in its analysis that some handguns would be affected by Biden\u2019s gun control proposal. So, does Biden want to ban handguns? He\u2019s publicly indicated that he wants to ban some. There\u2019s no doubt about that.<\/p>\n Yet, PolitiFact rated the claim that Biden wants to ban handguns as \u201cFalse.\u201d In fairness, they could have gotten away with rating the claim \u201cHalf True\u201d because one could argue that the House GOP\u2019s wording wasn\u2019t clear, but they didn\u2019t take Biden\u2019s words out of context. They even showed the video of Biden\u2019s response to the question. Biden may not have said he wanted to ban all handguns, but he clearly said he wants to ban some. Yet, PolitiFact disingenuously rated the claim false, which seems to imply that Biden never said he wanted to ban any handguns at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the ‘Fact-Checker’ gets it right back at them PolitiFact Claims Joe Biden \u2018Doesn\u2019t Want to Ban Handguns,\u2019 But Here Are His Actual Words. Joe Biden has been pretty clear about his desire to ban handguns. During his CNN town hall last week, Biden was asked, \u201cSo, how will you address gun violence, from a … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,64,75,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-deceit","category-media","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70137,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70136\/revisions\/70137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}