While taking questions from reporters in Iowa Monday, Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden reacted to the Texas shooting this weekend.
Biden called the need for assault weapons “irrational” and said that taking them away would not violate Second Amendment rights.
When asked if there are any compromises to be made with Republicans in Washington, D.C., to address gun control issues, Biden said “none.”
“I think there’s no compromise, this is one we have to just push, push, and push,” Biden said.
Biden then expressed his pessimism behind a possible solution to the gun issue anytime soon, given how Trump lacks the “intestinal fortitude” to deal with it.
“I don’t see anything out there, do you?” Biden said. “I’ve seen nothing, the President has no intestinal fortitude to deal with this. He knows better. His instinct was to say, ‘Yeah, we’re going to do something on background checks.’ What’s he doing? Come on, this is disgraceful. This is disgraceful what’s happening.”
Watch Biden’s remarks below:
Biden: "The President has no intestinal fortitude to deal with" the gun issue. pic.twitter.com/4Ys3lpFbiV
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) September 2, 2019
If this doesn’t result in a Category Five tweetstorm, nothing will. Biden is not my favorite candidate, but when you’re right, you’re right.
Joe is right. If there is one thing Trump lacks generally it is guts.
His lack of guts is most apparent when it comes to gun violence. He seems to be willing to allow thousands to be shot by white men wielding AR-15 rifles with high capacity magazines rather than face down the NRA.
“Or, as I like to call them, my base.”
This! Trump says he has a “package” that “everyone is talking about”, so let’s see it.
For the record, the Obama/Biden administration did virtually nothing on guns during their first term. During his first term, they did not ask for any new restrictions on gun ownership. In their second term, it was 23 executive actions, not executive orders.
The only 2 gun laws Obama signed during his 8 years in office actually expanded gun rights: the right to carry weapons in national parks and the right for Amtrak passengers to carry guns in checked baggage.
Never Biden