Joe Biden on Monday signaled support for banning the most popular handgun in the world: the 9mm.
“Look, when I first started doing hearings on the issue of what rational gun laws it should be, it was during a period when I was senator and the death rate was going up,” Biden told reporters outside the White House. “Not that many more people were being shot, but the death rate was up.”
Biden recalled a conversation he had with a New York trauma doctor nearly 20 years ago, per Just the News.
“I said, ‘why are they dying?’ And they showed me X-rays. He said ‘A .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out, may be able to get it, and save the life. A 9 mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.’”
“So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is of - there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of thinking about self-protection, hunting,” he continued. “I mean, I just - and remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute. You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons.”
