President Joe Biden shouted Thursday that Democrats “are the ones who fund the police” during an East Room event focused on how the White House is trying to curb gun violence.
Biden was flanked by the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, and pursued both the Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, and his running mate, Senator JD Vance.
But the 81-year-old referred to the vice presidential candidate as “Secretary Vance of Ohio.”
‘Look folks, I taught constitutional law for years. Constitutional law. The Second Amendment was never intended to be absolute,” the president said. “When it was passed, you couldn’t own a cannon,” he said.
The president then muttered the quote: “America’s freedom is watered with the blood of patriots.”
“Like hell,” he told the East Room audience. ‘I’m serious. Think about it. Think about it. It was never absolute. Never, never, never.
President Joe Biden shouted Thursday that Democrats “are the ones who fund the police” during an East Room event focused on how the White House is trying to curb gun violence.
President Joe Biden (right) signs new executive orders related to gun control and hugs former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (left), who survived an assassination attempt in 2011 in Tucson, Arizona.
Historically, Republicans have invoked the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms) to oppose gun control measures.
Biden said he wanted to see more funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“We got a lot of heat from the other guy; she got a lot of heat from the other guy,” he said, speaking of Harris. ‘Talk about, “We’re not helping…” We’re the ones who fund the cops!’ Then he screamed.
“We’re the ones who fund these things,” Biden added.
Biden criticized his “predecessor” – instead of saying Trump’s name – and congressional Republicans for opposing Democrats’ crackdown on ghost guns, which they say also violates the Second Amendment.
“Give me a break,” Biden said. “If they had their way, criminals could traffic weapons and commit crimes.”
Vice President Kamala Harris recalled meeting the victim of a school shooting last week, although she did not mention how she told Oprah Winfrey that, as a gun owner, she would shoot an intruder.
‘They attack the FBI and want to abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives. By the way, that’s written,” he added.
“Folks, you can’t be for law enforcement and be against the FBI and the ATF,” Biden said to applause.
Trump has complained about the FBI over the bureau’s 2016 Russia investigation, which he called a “hoax,” and the August 2022 raid at Mar-a-Lago to recover classified documents the former president took from the House. White.
Harris spoke ahead of Biden at the East Room event, attended by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was nearly killed in an assassination attempt in 2011, and Georgia Rep. Lucy McBath, whose son was shot to death for playing her music. too high.
He spoke about his meeting last week with a survivor of the recent Apalachee High School shooting, during his star-studded event in Michigan with Oprah Winfrey.
“Last week I met with a young leader, her name is Natalie,” Harris recalled. “When we met, Natalie was still wearing bandages and is extraordinarily brave.”
“So on behalf of her, on behalf of all the survivors, on behalf of all the survivors we have lost,” the vice president continued, failing to deliver, “let us continue to fight to end the epidemic of gun violence.”
What Harris didn’t mention in front of the crowd at the White House – when almost every member of the audience raised their hand to say they had lost someone to gun violence – was the pronouncement she made last week: that she would kill shooting an intruder.
“If anyone breaks into my house, they’ll be shot,” he told Winfrey.
‘I probably shouldn’t have said that. “My team will take care of that later,” the Democratic candidate added.