Bidens Owns Guns; Trump Does Not

Joe Biden owns guns, has pro-farm policies, drives an American-made car, and owns dogs.

Trump does not own a gun, has never walked a farm field, does not know how to drive, and has never owned a pet.

Who do you think is the “real” American when it comes to dogs and hunting?

As the cartoon suggests, we’ve been down this road before with low-information voters. Anyone who doubts that can read a 2009 post from this blog entitled Crying Wolf in Dog and Hunting Debates.

As for the Second Amendment, I am all for it and have written about that in some detail, but it's not an unrestricted right.

Not even the most rabid fanatic at the NRA says folks should be able to carry a loaded rocket-propelled grenade launcher through the airport. Guns are about Time, Place, and Manner, as no less of a Second Amendment proponent than Antonin Scalia has noted. Scalia notes in Heller that:

Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: For example, concealed weapons prohibitions have been upheld under the Amendment or state analogues. The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms. Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.

Is Joe Biden going to take away your shotgun, deer rifle, or home defense piece?  Not a chance.  

Remember, Biden was in office with Obama for 8 years. You know what they did?  They argued before the Supreme Court that the Second Amendment

"...protects an individual right to possess firearms unrelated to militia operations. By its plain text, the Second Amendment secures a "right," a term that the Constitution consistently uses to refer to indi vidual freedoms rather than state prerogatives. The text also makes clear that the right is not limited to members of a select body (like today's National Guard) but extends to "the people" generally.

The Obama-Biden administration also greenlighted carrying handguns in our national parks. I still think that's a stupid idea, but it's clearly not one that is "anti-gun".