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Biden on Second Amendment: When it was passed, "you couldn't buy a cannon"

May 31, 2022 View Original Article
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    30% Somewhat Conservative

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  • Policy Leaning

    2% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -45% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "The idea of these high caliber weapons -- there's simply no rational basis for it in terms of, about self-protection, hunting -- and, remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute."
47% : He said the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which protects the right to keep and bear arms, "was never absolute.""You couldn't buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed," Biden said.
45% : However, he said changes would need to be addressed to current gun laws.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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