Either Joe Biden is one of the most ignorant people ever to hold the office or he’s one of the most dishonest. Or both. I’m inclined to think both.

Biden is in New York City Thursday to talk about dealing with “gun violence,” (Funny thing about how those guns are violent all by themselves, seemingly without the aegis of any bad human beings) and he was slinging just a pack full of lies.

Biden said that he wanted every major city to follow New York’s lead in their approach to violent crimes. How’s that working out in New York City? Not so well.

Biden says he wants cities to “follow New York’s lead” on violent crime.

FACT: Crime is UP 38% in New York City this year, with a 93% INCREASE in carjackings. pic.twitter.com/pzRmdZO6Vr

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 3, 2022

I don’t think most sane Americans would want every city to follow NYC’s lead, so that says a lot about Joe Biden’s sanity at this point. We just saw how bad it has gotten there with the killings of Det. Jason Rivera and Officer Wilbert Mora.

Biden was just reading his speech in NYC, most of the time not even bothering to look up, because he can’t deliver it normally. But, he got hot under the collar when he broached the topic about guns — and that’s when he went off-script, going completely off the reality reservation.

BIDEN: "This doesn't doesn't violate anybody's Second Amendment right…You couldn't buy a cannon when this amendment was passed. There's no reason why you shouldn't be able to buy certain assault weapons." pic.twitter.com/M7hoVi84UQ

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 3, 2022

Quick edit: …should* be able to buy…

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 3, 2022

Biden claimed no “right was absolute.” That’s the lead-in to ‘we’re about to try to restrict your rights.’ So he’s flagging that it’s coming; he called for universal background checks, a crackdown on so-called “ghost guns,” and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. He claimed wasn’t trying to “violate anybody’s Second Amendment right.”

He then declared, “You couldn’t buy a cannon when this amendment was passed. There’s no reason why you should be able to buy certain assault weapons.”

First, Joe Biden is lying, and this isn’t the first time he’s told this lie. He’s such a bad liar that he has a habit of recycling lies. He’s said some version of this lie at least twice before, as the Washington Post found.

“Everything in that statement is wrong,” said David Kopel, the research director and Second Amendment project director at the Independence Institute. After 1791, “there were no federal laws about the type of gun you could own, and no states limited the kind of gun you could own.”

Indeed, individuals could own cannons. So, he’s just wrong. Yet he keeps saying it. He doesn’t seem to give a darn about the truth. He got four Pinocchios from the Washington Post’s fact-checker Glenn Kessler for the last time he said it in June 2021. Kessler reiterated that Thursday, in response to Biden’s remarks.

Last June, this same claim earned Four Pinocchios: "We have no idea where he conjured up this notion about a ban on cannon ownership in the early days of the Republic, but he needs to stop making this claim." https://t.co/zi2g4SdNj3 https://t.co/llakVPlKMQ

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 3, 2022

You could even “own a cannon today,” according to gun expert Stephen Gutowski.

Oh, also, you can still legally own a canon today. They’re regulated as destructive devices under the National Firearms Act of 1934, but they’re still legal for civilians to own.

— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) February 3, 2022

But Biden didn’t stop there. He showed more gun ignorance by calling a Glock a “weapon of war.” No, it isn’t.

BIDEN: A Glock with a 40 round magazine is a "weapon of war." pic.twitter.com/gwixWnMhlS

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 3, 2022

He then moved into another lie, claiming that gun manufacturers were “the only industry in America that is exempted from being sued.”

BIDEN: Gun manufacturers are "the only industry in America that is exempted from being sued, and I find it to be outrageous." pic.twitter.com/T9LU7hQLP0

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 3, 2022

Gun manufacturers are not exempt from being sued, nor are they the only industry with some liability protection.

Under the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, gun manufacturers cannot be held liable for the use of their products in a crime. However, gun manufacturers can still be held liable for (and thus sued for) a range of things, including negligence, breach of contract regarding the purchase of a gun, or certain damages from defects in the design of a gun. [….]

For example, vaccine manufacturers cannot be held liable in a civil suit for damages from a vaccine-related injury or death. And for the next four years, pharmaceutical companies developing the Covid-19 vaccines will have immunity from liability under the 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act.

But, notice he doesn’t mention the exemption for vaccine manufacturers.

Joe Biden is a font of lies and misinformation, yet the White House is pushing to shut down other people, like Joe Rogan, for ‘misinformation’ because he isn’t pushing their narrative. Not only does Biden want to restrict people’s speech rights, but he also wants to restrict their gun rights, too.

But just remember, he’s there to ‘restore norms.’