Posted on 08/20/2019 11:11:03 AM PDT by rktman
Joe Biden has been out on the primary campaign trail working hard.
Maybe a little too hard.
“We got to let them know who we are,” he recently told a crowd of supporters at the Iowa State Fair. Perhaps the most accurate of the qualities he used to describe himself and his fellow travelers was “We choose truth over facts!”
That much we know, Joe.
And while Biden’s statement may sound like an amusing gaffe, the truth that matters to many in the anti-gun movement isn’t the truth but their truth.
Case in point, Biden also recently lent his name to an editorial in the New York Times in which he claimed “Banning Assault Weapons Works.”
He was, to use modern activist terminology, “speaking his truth.”
But in doing so, he was ignoring the facts.
Biden claimed in his editorial that “with Senator Dianne Feinstein I led the effort to enact the 1994 law that banned assault weapons and high-capacity magazines for 10 years” and that “[t]hose gun safety reforms made our nation demonstrably more secure.”
In fact, the “assault weapon” ban Biden championed in 1994 contained a provision that required the U.S. attorney general to “investigate and study the effect” of the law, with an emphasis on its “impact, if any, on violent and drug trafficking crime.”
Last year, the RAND Corp. published a large-scale review of existing gun control studies to determine “what scientific research can tell us about the effects of gun laws.” The effort made a point of focusing on studies with the highest analytical rigor.
The RAND review found no scientific support for the proposition that bans on the sale of “assault weapons” and “high capacity magazines” reduced violent crime generally or even mass shootings specifically.
(Excerpt) Read more at nraila.org ...
If their ban worked, why then did gun control advocates Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold go and shoot up a gun free zone in 1999?
As has been pointed out many times in the past, by both myself and others (and perhaps even this article were I not too lazy to read it all) that Columbine occurred during the height of the Clinton Assault Weapon and High Capacity Magazine bans.
Democrats don’t even keep track of their own lies and failures these days. Everything just IS whatever they say it is. Who, but an absolute moron would ever vote for any of them?
“So we enacted a gun ban and ended mass shootings like the one in El Paso.”
See my post 7
Yup, I saw it after I posted. Wasn’t there when I started my post, but then you proved what I said.
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