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Joe Biden: Second Amendment Had Limits ‘from the Very Beginning’

AWR Hawkins 9 Apr 2021

During Thursday’s comments from the Rose Garden, President Joe Biden claimed the Second Amendment has had limits “from the very beginning.”

Biden said, “No amendment — no amendment to the Constitution is absolute. You can’t yell…’fire’ in a crowded movie theater and call it freedom of speech. From the very beginning, you couldn’t own any weapon you wanted to own. From the very beginning that the Second Amendment existed, certain people weren’t allowed to have weapons.”

Believing Second Amendment rights are limited, Biden also believes passing gun control to further restrict those rights is no infringement.

He said, “Nothing — nothing I’m about to recommend in any way impinges on the Second Amendment. They’re phony, arguments suggesting that these are Second Amendment rights at stake from what we’re talking about.”

But the Bill of Rights serves a different purpose than the Constitution. Whereas the Constitution enumerates powers that the people relegate to the federal government, and also describes how those powers are to be used, the Bill of Rights lists specific rights that the people possess as part of their humanity.

Thomas Jefferson alluded to these rights in the Declaration of Independence, when he said we are “endowed by [our] Creator with certain unalienable rights.” He pointed out that these rights are “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” A decade and half later the rights were fleshed out with greater specification in the Bill of Rights, with James Madison stating that Americans’ gun rights “shall not be infringed.”

One of the chief purposes of the Bill of Rights was to declare that the people possessed rights integral to their humanity, and those rights were not under the government’s purview (because they did not come from government).

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/09/joe-biden-second-amendment-had-limits-very-beginning/
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Traitor Joe is a lying moron. You can yell fire in a crowded theater.

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Joe Biden: Second Amendment Had Limits ‘from the Very Beginning’
"From the very beginning, you couldn’t own any weapon you wanted to own.”

Exactly which weapons were prohibited to private individuals from the very beginning?  At least through the era of the War Between the States, private citizens could purchase military weapons including artillery, and some wealthy men did so to raise and equip their own military units.  Further, The Constitution specifically gives to Congress the authority to grant Letters of Marque, which were authorizations for private individuals to conduct naval warfare in the name of Congress; obviously those private individuals owned the arms necessary to wage naval warfare.

So again, when the Constitution was first ratified, exactly what weapons were prohibited to private individuals to own?

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" From the very beginning that the Second Amendment existed, certain people weren’t allowed to have weapons."

Those "certain people" were black.
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Exactly which weapons were prohibited to private individuals from the very beginning?  At least through the era of the War Between the States, private citizens could purchase military weapons including artillery, and some wealthy men did so to raise and equip their own military units.  Further, The Constitution specifically gives to Congress the authority to grant Letters of Marque, which were authorizations for private individuals to conduct naval warfare in the name of Congress; obviously those private individuals owned the arms necessary to wage naval warfare.

So again, when the Constitution was first ratified, exactly what weapons were prohibited to private individuals to own?

None, of course, but lying Biden knows that already.
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Those "certain people" were black.
Or perhaps institutionalized, like in jail.
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What limits were those?

Sure, to the Congress was reserved the authority to license privateers and by extension, cannons.

But there are no limits, explicit or implied, on the arms a citizen can carry.  They're allowed, by the Second Amendment, to carry the same arms an infantryman in the Army would carry into battle...because A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State.

The word "regulated" in that clause meant "trained", so they were able to become the equal to "regulars", ie, soldiers.

One should always ask what the Rodent is afraid of when they pass laws restricting freedoms.   In this case they're afraid of the people they're depriving of freedom.

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REG'ULATED, participle passive Adjusted by rule, method or forms; put in good order; subjected to rules or restrictions.

In the context of the Second Amendment, "regulated" meant trained, put in good order.
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