Joe Biden gave remarks at the White House celebrating the new bipartisan gun legislation that has some concerning red flag law provisions. Biden had already signed the bill into law on June 25.
During his remarks, Biden made it clear that yes, he wants to come for your guns.
Biden today: "None of what I'm talking about infringes on anyone's Second Amendment rights…I support the Second Amendment."
Biden, moments later: "Assault weapons need to be banned…I'm determined to ban these weapons again…" pic.twitter.com/Iqby1eHnMZ
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 11, 2022
Biden said he was instrumental in getting assault weapons banned in the past in 1994. What he’s claiming about the result has been called into question. But that’s not stopping him from trying to push the topic again, although his chances of succeeding so far don’t look good. That’s why they had to settle for what they had with this law. As we noted, the assault weapons ban that they had in Highland Park didn’t manage to stop that shooting.
Biden seemed to trip over Kamala Harris’ name, referring to her as the “Vice President Em [and?] Harris,” as he spoke about her.
He also got Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) — who was instrumental in getting the legislation passed — in some trouble with people in Texas and elsewhere by thanking him for the work he did. It’s not making many people on the right happy, so that may come back and bite Cornyn in Texas.
Joe Biden thanks Republican Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis for supporting gun control legislation.
"I hope I don't get you in trouble mentioning your name." pic.twitter.com/HprzdNclGu
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 11, 2022
But then, someone in the White House audience was not happy. A man stood up among the people invited to be there and began to shout out at Biden. What he was saying wasn’t clear, though he was seemingly objecting to Biden not going far enough with what he was signing on Monday.
Joe Biden just got heckled at his own White House event:
"Sit down! You'll hear what I have to say." pic.twitter.com/2FplghFkjO
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 11, 2022
This clip shows the man. “Sit down. You’ll hear what I have to say,” Biden says to him.
WATCH: Heckler during Biden speech celebrating recently-enacted gun law pic.twitter.com/t4o8iOqTs3
— Jackson Richman (@jacksonrichman) July 11, 2022
The man was a Parkland dad, Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was murdered during the shooting at the Stoneman Douglas school in 2018. Oliver told CNN earlier on Monday that the law being signed wasn’t doing enough. That was who Biden was short with — initially telling him to sit down, but then saying to “let him talk.” But the man had already been quieted and the damage done.
Biden told the father of a Parkland shooting victim to 'sit down' as he heckled the president during a gun law speech https://t.co/NaBstgGF3L
— Politics Insider (@PoliticsInsider) July 11, 2022
Did Biden not initially know who he was? Or could he just not stop himself? That’s a bad look and that’s likely why Biden then quickly tried to correct it. Normally, when he’s challenged, he will jump down someone’s throat. So maybe for Joe Biden, that was less crazy than it would normally be.
But, on top of that, Biden made a gaffe when he was trying to talk about that very shooting, claiming that it happened in “1918,” rather than 2018, which one has to imagine also must have been off-putting to anyone who was at the event, particularly family members who suffered so much from it.
Joe Biden calls out two instances in which he thinks Red Flag Laws would have prevented the shootings.
He also says that the shooting in Parkland, Florida occurred in the year 1918. pic.twitter.com/q5Q2ZcP7Bb
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 11, 2022
Just another banner day in the Biden Administration.
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