Biden Claims 9mm Bullet 'Blows The Lung Out Of The Body,' Then Immediately Says 'There's No Rational Basis' For High Caliber Weapons | The Daily Caller
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President Joe Biden on Monday claimed that "a 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body," citing a doctor he once met in New York.
Biden landed back at the White House on Memorial Day and fielded various questions from reporters, many of which focused on gun control. The debate is front and center after a mass shooter killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas.
At one point, the president was pressed on whether there's any particular element regarding gun reform that he believes could be successful. Biden began by noting that he hasn't negotiated with any Republicans yet before discussing an old visit he took to a trauma hospital in New York.
"They [doctors] showed me x-rays," Biden said according to a transcript of his comments put out by the White House.
"He said, 'A .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out, may be able to get it, and save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body,'" the president claimed. "So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is of - there's simply no rational basis for it in terms of thinking about self-protection, hunting."
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller regarding Biden's remarks.
The 9mm is the most popular handgun caliber in America, according to a 2019 article by Guns.com.
Notably, the president has commented on 9mm bullets in the past. While attending a private fundraiser in Seattle in 2019, Biden wondered aloud about why America allows its citizens to own "military-style weapons," tying in "pistols with 9mm bullets" as an example.
"Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?" Biden said at the time, according to the Seattle Times. (RELATED: JOHNSTON: Here's What One Democrat Gets Wrong About Biden's Gun Agenda)
Biden also repeated a false claim regarding the Second Amendment, saying that "you couldn't buy a cannon when" it "was passed." PolitiFact rated this claim as "false" back in April, noting that Biden has repeatedly made this declaration.
"The Second Amendment did not place limits on individual ownership of cannons," according to PolitiFact. "Federal gun regulation came decades after the amendment passed. Biden has made this False statement before."
A note on this claim, which Biden has repeated in the past, via PolitiFact: "The Second Amendment did not place limits on individual ownership of cannons."https://t.co/WUMKWyB9o6https://t.co/2z5AAWnBA8
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Ultimately, Biden said Monday that he believes "things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about" the gun debate. He noted that he "can't dictate" things like outlawing a weapon or changing a background check, but vowed to take "any executive action I can take."
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All this from the guy who is surrounded 24/7/365 by guys with 9mm handguns on their persons.
He’s either really stupid when it comes to guns, or he thinks the rest of us are.
If there has ever been a politician who has said more ignorant, fanciful bullshit about guns than Joe Biden, I don’t know who it could be.
Honestly, I’d be happy if I thought my 9mm would blow the lung out of whomever I was shooting. That’s sort of the fuckin point. Of course, it won’t do that, but that would be amazing.
Also, he thinks 9mm is “large caliber.”
(9mm = .354) The reason to carry a 9mm is weight not lethality... They used to carry .40 Smiths as their issue weapons, which fires flat nosed bullets, if you want to talk about lethality....
THIS.
Too bad President Biden is not up on the 'nomenclature'
That's the whole fucking problem.
In other words, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Yeah, that’s kind of a problem.
He won't solve anything with a bad diagnosis. It's why we have a salad of reactionary, pointless gun laws.
Dude, do you really think he meant, "blows it out of the body," as in we are going to find it smeared against the wall?
It's pretty obvious that uncle joe means the damage from the 9mm is much worse and that the lung can't be saved.
My question to that is - is he correct? Does a 9mm cause more damage than a 22?
yes
I don't care if it does more damage. If someone breaks into my home and is a threat to me and my family I don't really care if the can retrieve the bullet and save his life. I want him incapacitated and dead as soon as possible. If it is a painful and slow death is alright with me too.
I think most gun owners would consider it a “feature,” not a flaw.
It seems we have to ask that question on everything that comes out of his mouth, at what point should we be looking at the 25th rather than clean up on aisle two.
The Reagan administration? The Trump administration?
I come here to be reminded of that on a daily basis.
Have you?
Oh wow.....you got me on that one.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
How often do you do that?
I understand your Regan comment, explain Trump.
Then someone damn well needs to teach Brandon how to talk. He already holds the title of human fuck up machine. Is he trying for the world's biggest dumbass as well?
22's are meant for hunting small game at a decent range; 9mm is meant to stop humans at close range. One is meant for hunting; and one is meant for home protection. Maybe Brandon would prefer we try to tickle intruders and assailants into submission?
“Maybe Brandon would prefer we try to tickle intruders and assailants into submission?”
Brandon? Tickle? Submission?
Try as you might, using such adjectives does nothing to prove a point and only demonstrates a stance unwilling and unable to acknowledge or discuss an obvious problem. Do respond as is your right…but do so in the knowledge it only proves the contention…the ignoring of the bottom line.
So when is everybody going to discuss the obvious problem. And before you start your rant, no, it's the firearm is not the problem.
What is the obvious problem?
He's a got a speech impediment. It's probably related to his gaffes. Stuttering is sort of like dyslexia of the mouth.
Is it possible he means something other than 9mm handgun ammunition but rather the difference between 22 rounds and the sort of ammunition that is loaded into an assault rifle?
GI's been nothing but a song and dance here, yet you expect people to respond seriously? Seriously?
Politicians that want gun control do not deserve armed guards.
Ridiculous.
Why?