https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/joe-biden-agrees-criminals-and-terrorists-d...“Guns are — the idea of background checks are critical but you can’t stop someone from buying something on the street,” he said.
Different crime,and criminal. Plenty of links in the article.
https://uniteamericafirst.com/joe-biden-ca-1985-criminals-will-get-guns-with-or-without-gun-control-laws/
Biden added, “During my 12 and a half years as a member of this body, I have never believed that additional gun control or federal registration of guns would reduce crime. I am convinced that a criminal who wants a firearm can get one through illegal, nontraceable, unregistered sources, with or without gun control.”
It's just as much of a pipe dream to believe that guns can be removed from America as getting drugs out of America. Yeah, the answer is, More Guns. If the bad guys know ten or fifteen percent of the population are armed citizens, then they have to wonder how many people they will be getting shot at by if they go start something. Plus, self defense is a human right. It's as natural as breathing. Every sentient creature has a desire to not be injured or killed. And the second amendment was written, not by some people who had just gotten back from a hunting trip, but by some men who had just freed a nation. The idea that a government can become oppressive and tyrannical is not some paranoid delusion. It's been seen. Read your history books. The second amendment was written to specifically say that the People have a right to be armed to remedy that situation. The " Nobody needs a weapon of war" refrain is just opinion. And history shows it's Wrong. For those of you who are cheering for the Ukrainians, please note that their government has been handing out Weapons of War to civilians. Why? Because they NEED them, to fight off an invasion.
Madison wrote how a federal army could be kept in check by state militias, "a standing army ... would be opposed [by] a militia." He argued that state militias "would be able to repel the danger" of a federal army,
They understood that just because the government was Not trying to oppress the People Today, there is no guarantee that tomorrow, any time in the future, that government won't become a tyrannical force, so they built into the constitution a protection for the People that states that the People are not to be stripped of their weapons. And Since it's meant to protect the Right of the People to keep and bear arms to protect themselves from a federal army, it's meant for weapons that would be taken into battle, IE,Weapons of War.