Joe Biden denounces "prostitution of the Second Amendment"

[groundloop]

Source: CBS News

Vice President Joe Biden blasted what he called "the prostitution of the Second Amendment" by gun rights activists at the University of Pennsylvania on Thursday. He made the remarks while participating in wide-ranging discussion with the university's president, Amy Gutmann.

"I think the Second Amendment is being badly interpreted, it's not consistent with what our founders intended," said Biden when discussing gun policy. He added, "What's happened here is the nation as a whole has decided it can no longer, in my view, continue to turn a blind eye to the prostitution of the Second Amendment here and can no longer turn a blind eye to the enormous damage being done not just in our schools but on our streets."

Biden hailed the work of young activists who led the "March For Our Lives" rally in Washington and across the country. He said the students of Parkland, Florida have forced an "awful lot of elected officials" to "rip the bandaid off" of where they stand on gun-related issues.

"This was totally, thoroughly spontaneously on the part of the students, there was no adult inspiration for this. They insisted and that's why guys like me who led in the gun issue did not show up to speak, we wanted to make sure everybody knew this was a spontaneous, thoroughly spontaneous effort on the part of young people," said Biden of the marches.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-denounces-prostitution-of-the-second-amendment/

[jberryhill]

1. Good lord, does this mean Michael Cohen is in for another 130k?

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Lol

Not sure of your logic but i sometimes do get the idea things are connected behind the scenes in ways meant to manipulate and that we don't understand

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Actually, ... it is the profit-making gun INDUSTRY that prostitutes the 2nd Amendment. . . . . . nt

[former9thward]

4. I'm not sure if I would want legal opinions on the 2nd amendment from Joe Biden.

He told Field and Stream:

I said, "Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door." Most people can handle a shotgun a hell of a lot better than they can a semiautomatic weapon in terms of both their aim and in terms of their ability to deter people coming.

https://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/guns/2013/02/gun-control-joe-biden-interview

He also said:

he had advised his wife, Jill, "if there's ever a problem, just walk out on the balcony here, walk out and put that double-barrel shotgun and fire two blasts outside the house."

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/02/28/biden-advises-shooting-shotgun-through-door

People taking either bit of advice would face potential felonies.

[LanternWaste]

5. Much as I'm not sure if people want unsupported opinions that 'boycotts never work..."

Much as I'm not sure if people want the inaccurate and unsupported opinion that 'boycotts never work..." either. But it happens. Rather consistently.