The idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick,” President Joe Biden (D) said last November. “It has no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.”

These are the sentiments of an authoritarian. The trouble for Biden’s ambitions is he is the president of the United States, which is a constitutional republic. He is not Xi Jinping, head of a communist state, or even Justin Trudeau, head of a Westminster-style parliamentary democracy in a nation with no constitutional protection for the peoples’ right to own and carry firearms. 

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