Biden says 'you couldn't buy cannons' under Second Amendment in swipe at guns after Texas school massacre

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The president said the Second Amendment does not exist in a vacuum and was never intended to confer a right for anyone to carry any weapon with no limits.
54% : that assertion, noting that the Second Amendment, which was drafted in 1791, does not specifically exclude ownership of any weapon.
52% : President Biden Monday said gun rights are not absolute, claiming that ordinary American citizens "couldn't buy cannons" when the Second Amendment was drafted.
49% :"The Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute," he said.
42% : Biden also added a controversial claim: "You couldn't buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed."
37% : In Congress, a bipartisan group of senators talked over the weekend to see if they could reach even a modest compromise on gun legislation after a decade of mostly failed efforts.
15% :[ BIden consoles families of children massacred in Uvalde school shooting ]Biden defended the assault weapons ban that he helped usher into law in 1994.

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