Joe Biden suggested banning 9mm firearms, which are the most common defensive firearms in the United States. Fox News. Biden falsely claimed that 9mm bullets would blow a person's lungs outside of the body and said that "high caliber" weapons have no purpose. He also repeated a false claim that people could not buy cannons during the time of the founding fathers. Biden did say that he did not have the power to ban 9mm on his own.
"The 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body." - President Joe Biden
— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) May 30, 2022
Will the fact checkers be flagging his comment as misinformation? pic.twitter.com/fFPPf7Cv44
My Comment:
Time will tell if this was another senior moment for Biden or an actual demonstration of how ignorant Biden is when it comes to firearms. The 9mm round is not anywhere near as powerful as Joe Biden describes here, and even .223/5.56 does not have the power to "blow someone's lung outside of their bodies".
You know what can do that? My .30 caliber rifles. My .308 Remington is a deer rife and it totally could blow someone's lung outside of their body. So can my World War II era Lee Enfield. But Biden thinks 9mm can do the same thing? The same 9mm that cops in the 90's thought was underpowered so they switched to .40 caliber (which had its own problems to be sure)? Does this mean that Biden wants to ban hunting rifles as well?
Generally speaking people think that the 9mm round is underpowered for self defense. Unless you hit the head, lungs, heart or spine the person is probably not going to die and could continue to attack you. And generally speaking if you are hit by a 9mm round anywhere but those places, and sometimes even then, you will survive if you get medical treatment. Generally speaking most gun people say that you need hollowpoint ammo in order for 9mm to be an effective defensive round.
But in Biden's eyes he thinks that 9mm is blowing huge chunks out of people like it was .50 BMG. You could chalk this up to utter ignorance on Biden's part. After all he has demonstrated that he doesn't even have the least bit of knowledge about firearms. Some if it is mostly harmless, like claiming that a deer rifle is less powerful than a AR-15 or saying that you couldn't buy a cannon back in the day (you can buy one now if you are rich enough). But some of it is outright dangerous like when he said you should blindly shoot a double barrel shotgun into the air if you are confronted by a home intruder, a move that would end with you in prison at best and dead at worst.
What is insane to me is that someone so ignorant is commenting on guns at all. There is a real chance that Biden thinks my 9mm pistol is more powerful than my AR-15 and has the same power as my deer rifle and will propose legislation regarding it. It makes no sense and you would have at least thought that in the mans lifetime political career, where guns have come up multiple times, that he would have at least some knowledge of firearms.
With that being said, even if Biden does want a 9mm ban it's not going to happen. Indeed, I don't see an AR-15 ban or any other ban happening with this current congress and with the Supreme Court ready to swoop in even if it did happen. There is no way that Congress would ever ban the most popular pistol round in the country and if they did the consequences would be to dire to even consider.
It's just extremely frustrating to have to continuously debate gun rights with people who don't even have the most basic knowledge of firearms. These people want to regulate something they haven't bothered to understand and it shows. And it's not like the information isn't out there, there are hundreds of websites that explain firearms and every gun owner is more than willing to explain every aspect of firearms. It is how I learned and it was not difficult at all.
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