{"id":572256,"date":"2021-06-23T18:36:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T22:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572256"},"modified":"2021-06-23T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T22:36:38","slug":"you-need-f-15s-and-maybe-some-nuclear-weapons-biden-dismisses-idea-you-need-guns-to-protect-yourself-from-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-need-f-15s-and-maybe-some-nuclear-weapons-biden-dismisses-idea-you-need-guns-to-protect-yourself-from-government\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Need F-15s And Maybe Some Nuclear Weapons\u2019: Biden Dismisses Idea You Need Guns To Protect Yourself From Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyou-need-f-15s-and-maybe-some-nuclear-weapons-biden-dismisses-idea-you-need-guns-to-protect-yourself-from-government%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=572256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/President-Joe-Biden-e1624484301392.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Joe Biden argued the Second Amendment is not aimed at allowing Americans to protect themselves from the government Wednesday, saying citizens would need F-15s and nuclear bombs to fight against the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Biden made the comments at the White House while unveiling <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/23\/joe-biden-strategy-crime-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">various policies<\/a> aimed at cutting down on gun crime across the U.S. Violent crime has been on a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/21\/gun-violence-homicides-gangs-police-2021-portland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">steady rise<\/a> in recent years and specifically in 2020, a trend the new administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/21\/jen-psaki-joe-biden-brennan-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has quickly blamed on gun violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThe Second Amendment from the day it was passed limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn\u2019t buy a canon,\u201d Biden said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/21\/joe-biden-address-nationwide-rise-violence\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0After Largely Avoiding The Topic Since Taking Office, Biden Plans To Address Nationwide Rise In Violence)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThose who say the blood of patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we\u2019re gonna have to move against the government,\u201d he continued. \u201cWell, the tree of liberty has not been watered with the blood of patriots. What\u2019s happened is that there have never been <strong><i>\u2014 <\/i><\/strong>if you want to, think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"13.211009174312\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BIDEN: \u201cThose who say the blood of Patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we\u2019re gonna have to move against the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WVHUffpphP\">pic.twitter.com\/WVHUffpphP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1407809806287704064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe point is that there has always been the ability to limit, rationally limit, the type of weapon that can be owned and who can own it,\u201d Biden finished.<\/p>\n<p>Biden announced policies alongside Attorney General Merrick Garland aimed at punishing vendors who sell guns to those legally prevented from owning them, granting cities greater authority to prevent guns purchased in other jurisdictions from being brought within their limits and other measures.<\/p>\n<p>The administration also pushed for increased efforts to provide jobs and mentors to low-income communities in an effort to decrease crime.<\/p>\n<h2>WATCH:<\/h2>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Biden and Merrick Garland speak on preventing gun violence\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gz_7Q6TUtBY?start=795&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden argued the Second Amendment is not aimed at allowing Americans to protect themselves from the government Wednesday, saying citizens would need F-15s and nuclear bombs to fight &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281164,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/President-Joe-Biden-e1624484301392.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018You Need F-15s And Maybe Some Nuclear Weapons\u2019: Biden Dismisses Idea You Need Guns To Protect Yourself From Government","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/President-Joe-Biden-e1624484301392.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018You Need F-15s And Maybe Some Nuclear Weapons\u2019: Biden Dismisses Idea You Need Guns To Protect Yourself From Government","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}