According to Vice President Joe Biden, gun owners are just paranoid, conspiracy theorists.
Defending mandatory gun registration on NPR’s ‘All Things Considered‘ on Wednesday, the Veep said it just made “logical sense,” but that people protest it, not because its infringes on a Constitutional right, but because it brings out the “black-helicopter-crowd notion” in people.
“When you go to registration, it raises all the black-helicopter-crowd notion that what this is all about is identifying who has a gun so that one day the government can get up and go to the house and arrest everyone who has a gun, and they’ll cite Nazi Germany and all that,” Biden said.
Bide also argued that “there isn’t a Constitutional right to own an automobile,” but “there is a Second Amendment Constitutional right to own a weapon.”
Although the assault weapons ban was taken removed from the Senate gun control bill this week, Biden is still confident a ban could pass through Congress in the near future.
“My experience, having been the only guy that did this once before, along with Dianne Feinstein and others, is that this doesn’t necessarily happen in one fell swoop,” he said on the radio show. “So, I don’t see this as, there’s an automatic end point. That, OK, there’s one vote, this is it, fails, now we move on. We are going to continue to push for logical, gun safety regulations.”
Biden, who has been charged with pushing Obama’s gun control proposals, said that passing the assault weapons ban was “the will of the people.”
Guess “the people” Biden’s talking about don’t include the “black-helicopter-crowd.”
