WASHINGTON— The White House is still pushing for an assault weapons ban, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday, even though Senate Democrats all but sealed its fate by dropping it from the gun-control package they plan to consider next month.
Although the ban’s sponsor still plans to offer it as an amendment, it is almost certain to fall victim to opposition from Republicans and likely some Democrats, too. In jettisoning the ban Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it fell far short of the amount of support it would need to survive a vote and said including the assault weapons ban could sink the whole bill.
“Attitudes are changing,” Biden said in an interview with NPR News. “The president and I are going to continue to push, and we haven’t given up on it.”
Biden and President Barack Obama have walked a fine line on the assault weapons ban, widely considered the most politically challenging element of the gun-control proposals the administration is pushing. While fully embracing the ban as a matter of policy, the administration has avoided describing it as a must-have, wary of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Instead, they’ve argued that at the very least the ban deserves a vote, even if political considerations ultimately place its passage out of reach.
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Biden needs to read the Constitution and accept it as written for there is no section that allows changes for word or deed except using the Article V amendment process. So, here is what he is faced with as is the Congress and the SC – they have limits that they can not overcome . .
Amendment 2 – Right to Bear Arms
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
1828 Definition
‘ARMS, n. plu. [L. arma.]
1. Weapons of offense, or armor for defense and protection of the body.
2. War; hostility.
Arms and the man I sing.
To be in arms, to be in a state of hostility, or in a military life.
To arms is a phrase which denotes a taking arms for war or hostility; particularly, a summoning to war.
To take arms, is to arm for attack or defense.
Bred to arms denotes that a person has been educated to the profession of a soldier.
1828 Definition
INFRINGE, v.t. infrinj’. [L. infringo; in and frango,to break. See Break.]
1. To break, as contracts; to violate, either positively by contravention, or negatively by non-fulfillment or neglect of performance. A prince or a private person infringes an agreement or covenant by neglecting to perform its conditions, as well as by doing what is stipulated not to be done.
2. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law.
3. To destroy or hinder; as, to infringe efficacy. [Little used.]
According to the 2nd amendment we can have cannons, rockets, mortars, bombs, guns of all types and varieties used to make war or defend one family and nation. They have opened Pandora’s not they can explain the above statement which has escaped.
You can research the Founders, Framers, and Ratifiers words and papers on this subject on this research library site – it is all there to read and distribute . .
http://articlevprojecttorestoreliberty.com/library-of-references.html
Stupid old man has already been beaten by the voices of WE THE PEOPLE and, has destroyed any future hopes of a political career. Biden has proven to be a total waterhead incapable of generating ONE sane thought and has no business as VP!
Biden, you lost. Get used to it and give up. All you are doing is wasting Tax Dollars at OUR expense to push YOUR Agenda, NOT OURS. You forget EXACTLY WHO YOU WORK FOR. You WORK FOR US, WE DO NOT WORK FOR YOU FOOL!!!
Biden proves that he and Obama are more like Dictators than they are President and Vice president and don’t care what the nation wants and shows it’s only what they want that is important! Both need to be impeached ,put on trial, convicted and then Hung from a tall tree at the White House!
They are just trying to make a name for themselves. They know they have lost but the promised to win this. Idiots. Its all about them not the contitution that they swear to uphold. Why arn’t they being impeached?
Very well qualified for the VP slot, Mr. Biden offsets the “no qualifications” of the alias in the POTUS slot. Also, the machine acquired a commitment from him to support the non-qualified-alias, prior to his selection. Which, he will continue to do, sad to say. The former hero has become a gutless leech.
Biden´s rabid shooting off at the mouth about representative Giffords and the 8 Jan 2011 massacre in Tucson was an insult to the intelligence of Americans. Guns do not make the decision to shoot anyone. Few former insiders and other well-informed are not aware that the event was set up over an extended period of time, and was simply a cover-up of the assassination of Circuit Judge John Roll.
Judge John Roll rendered a constitutionally appropriate opinion on the Brady Gun Bill, condemning it. John Roll was appointed by whom? GHWBushSr ? Read what the American heroine, Susan Lindauer reveals about who was behind the murder of Muammar Gadhaffi and the destruction of Libya, and why. Using FBI-compiled records, Lindauer wrote “Extreme Prejudice,” revealing one man behind the NATO destruction of Gadhaffi and Libya. In “Chronicles of Chip Tatum,“ Tatum, former CIA assassin for GHWBushSr, revealed the true character of GHWBushSr, as far back as the mid-1970s.
Considering the voting fraud the evil son, Jeb coordinated in Florida, 2000, the Patirot Act, that the evil son George Jr. extracted from the U.S. Congress, Marvin Bush´s affiliation with electronic security of the WTC, Neil Bush´s affiliation with Silvarado Savings and Loan and John Hinckley, Jr. -who shot Ronald Reagan- why have all of them not been brought to trial? However, when we look at the Kenyan, who cannot produce a birth certificate, who is treated as commander in chief, whom the USCongress has not removed, the answer becomes obvious. Former patriots and heroes who have become gutless leeches constipate the USCongress. Removal, the political equivalent of castor oil, would clear out the feces.