{"id":81547,"date":"2022-05-27T13:57:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81547"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:57:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:57:01","slug":"81547","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81547","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2022\/05\/biden-shooting-blanks-again.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BIDEN SHOOTING BLANKS (AGAIN)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Wednesday] at the White House executive-order signing ceremony commemorating the death of George Floyd, President Biden unleased a false bromide that he has often repeated (transcript\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/05\/25\/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-at-signing-of-executive-order-to-advance-effective-accountable-policing-and-strengthen-public-safety\/\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I spent my career, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and as Vice President, working for commonsense gun reforms \u2014 as I said, as a senator and a Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>While they clearly will not prevent every tragedy, we know certain ones will have significant impact and have no negative impact on the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed, you couldn\u2019t own a \u2014 you couldn\u2019t own a cannon, you couldn\u2019t own certain kinds of weapons. It\u2019s just \u2014 there\u2019s always been limitations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jonathan Turley\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2022\/04\/12\/no-the-second-amendment-did-not-prohibit-cannon-ownership-in-the-early-republic\/\">notes<\/a>\u00a0several previous occasions on which Biden has shot off this falsehood \u201cthat many of us have corrected in the past,\u201d as he did\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2022\/04\/12\/no-the-second-amendment-did-not-prohibit-cannon-ownership-in-the-early-republic\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0last month on April 12. Today he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanturley.org\/2022\/04\/12\/no-the-second-amendment-did-not-prohibit-cannon-ownership-in-the-early-republic\/\">reiterates<\/a>\u00a0his research:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once again, there were no federal laws barring cannon ownership when the Second Amendment was enacted. Gun laws remained local matters and I do not know of any bans on cannons or other gun types until much later in our history. Early local laws did control concealed weapons, though concealed cannons were not part of those ordinances.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Constitution itself supports private cannon ownership in the case of privateers. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 allows Congress to \u201cgrant Letters of Marque and Reprisal.\u201d That allowed private parties to privateer on the high seas with . . . cannons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its almost funny. As Ed Driscoll\u00a0put it\u00a0 on a previous Biden misfire this past February: \u201cThe gaslighting will continue until morale improves.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIDEN SHOOTING BLANKS (AGAIN) [Wednesday] at the White House executive-order signing ceremony commemorating the death of George Floyd, President Biden unleased a false bromide that he has often repeated (transcript\u00a0here): I spent my career, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee and as Vice President, working for commonsense gun reforms \u2014 as I said, as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=81547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81547","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=81547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81549,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81547\/revisions\/81549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}