Biden Insists 2nd Amendment Isn't Absolute: When it Was Passed 'You Couldn't Buy a Cannon'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "It did significantly cut down mass murders." "And, remember, the constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute," he continued.
50% : "You couldn't buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed and you couldn't go out and purchase a lot of weapons." "Those who -- not many are saying it anymore but there was a while there where people were saying -- you know, 'the tree of liberty is water with the blood of patriots,'" (which was a reference to a Thomas Jefferson quote) and 'what we have to do is take on the government when they are wrong.
43% : "I know what happened when we had rational action before," in an apparent reference to the assault weapons ban that expired during the George W. Bush administration.

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