Claiming all Democrats are violent radical card carrying communist socialists who want to take away everyone's guns and 'destroy America' is like...
...claiming all Republicans are card carrying NAZI and KKK members who want to violently bring back slavery and murder all minorities.
I think one needs to be VERY careful before claiming one groups radicals represent all of them. Because every group has radicals they don't agree with, right?
Biden verbatim said he wants to take away guns, so regardless of what individual Democrats believe, the key candidate representing the party wants to take away guns. I'd say that's a pretty alarming sentiment that isn't properly met with "but muh both sides".
No, he didn't say that, per se...
Facts First: Biden's gun control plan does not include confiscating legally owned weapons and an interpretation of a "viral video" is a mishearing of what was said. The former vice president has said in the past that a Biden administration would come for people's "assault weapons."
Biden's gun control plan outlines a buyback program for "assault weapons and high-capacity magazines," but the program is not a mandatory buyback and would not force people to give their up their guns.
According to Biden's website, the buyback program "will give individuals who now possess assault weapons or high-capacity magazines two options: sell the weapons to the government, or register them under the National Firearms Act."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/politics/fact-check-joe-biden-gun-control/index.html
Here's more detail:
https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/
From the same article:
But in August 2019, during an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Biden was asked about people who think a Biden administration "means they're going to come for my guns." Biden replied, "Bingo, you're right if you have an assault weapon. The fact of the matter is they should be illegal. Period."
Right, so lets look up what an "assault weapon" is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon"Drawing from federal and state law definitions, the term assault weapon refers primarily to semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns that are able to accept detachable magazines and possess one or more other features."
Ah, so Joe Biden wants to make nearly every gun in the country illegal and he wants to seize them. So let's take another look at:
Biden's gun control plan does not include confiscating legally owned weapons
Okay, but Joe wants to make them illegal, hence confiscation of illegal weapons. These silly word games where they say "well I won't take your legal firearms" but also "by the way, I want to make all of your legal firearms illegal" are so tiresome. Joe has a long history of anti-gun propaganda. Suddenly changing his website to be full of weasel words during an election doesn't make me feel like he's changed his mind.