President Joe Biden on Wednesday repeated a claim about the Second Amendment that some of us have repeatedly challenged as untrue. In asserting that “the Second Amendment is not absolute,” President Biden repeated his claim that certain weapons were prohibited at the time that the Second Amendment was ratified. President Biden also has repeated his claim that certain weapons were banned at the time of the ratification of the Second Amendment. You couldn’t buy a cannon.”This week, President Biden repeated a false claim that many of us have corrected in the past. Yet, this week, President Biden remained undeterred and uninformed: “The Second Amendment is not absolute.

Source: Washington Post May 27, 2022 01:21 UTC