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President Biden aimed at 9mm pistols on Monday, which seems to suggest that “high-caliber weapons” should be banned.
The president made remarks to the White House after returning from a visit to a Texas mass shooting site where 21 people, including 19 elementary school children, were killed last week.
President Joe Biden spoke to the media on the southern lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday, May 30, 2022, after returning from Wilmington, Dell. (AP Photo / Andrew Harnik)
Speaking about a visit to a trauma hospital in New York, Biden said doctors had shown him X-rays of gunshot wounds.
“They said a 0.22 caliber bullet would hit the lungs and we could probably get it out – we could get it out and save a life. “A 9mm bullet blows the lungs out of the body,” Biden said.
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“So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s just no rational basis for that in terms of self-defense, hunting,” Biden added. “Remember, the constitution has never been absolute.”
“You couldn’t buy a gun when the Second Amendment was passed,” Biden said. “You couldn’t go out and buy a lot of weapons.
However, the president ruled out the possibility of issuing an executive order for weapons, saying: “I can not dictate these things.”
UWALDE, TEX – MAY 26: A memorial can be seen around the sign of Rob Elementary School after the mass shooting at Rob Elementary School on May 26, 2022 in Uwalde, Texas. According to reports, 19 students and 2 adults were killed and the attacker was fatally shot by police. (Photo by Brandon Bell / Getty Images)
“I can do the things I did and whatever executive action I can take, I will continue to do. But I can’t ban weapons. I can’t change the check. I can’t do that, “he said.
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Biden’s comments were in line with his firm stance on weapons during the 2020 presidential campaign. Speaking at a Seattle fundraising event in November 2019, Biden said he supported the second amendment, but called the absolutist arguments on arms rights “strange”.
“Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons, including pistols with 9-millimeter bullets and can withstand 10 rounds or more,” he said.
Children flee to safety after fleeing a window during a mass shooting at Rob Elementary School, where a gunman killed nineteen children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas, USA, May 24, 2022. (Pete Luna / Uvalde Leader-News / Handout via REUTERS)
The Second Amendment is under fire again after a lone gunman identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos killed 19 children and two adults at Rob Elementary School in Uwalde, Texas, about 85 miles west of San Antonio.
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The attack was the deadliest shooting at an American school since a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, nearly a decade ago.
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