Daily Verse | Job 19:4
“If it is true that I have gone astray, my error remains my concern alone.”

Tuesday’s Reading: Job 20-21

Happy Tuesday, my friends, and welcome to the last day of May. Just like that, we’re through five months of 2022.

I hope that in addition to taking a moment to reflect with a grateful heart on those who fought, bled and died to secure our freedoms and strengthen our country, you enjoyed time with family and friends. I slept in, spent the day working in the yard, and enjoyed some juicy, grilled steaks for dinner followed by a homemade strawberry-rhubarb pie with vanilla ice cream.

Very American!

And we gave thanks for the freedoms we enjoy and for those who gave their lives to make it possible. The older I get and the more aware I am of how fragile (and rare) true freedom is, the more grateful and humbled I am to live in this great nation.

If we could only get our leaders to think the same instead of going through the motions and mouthing empty platitudes that sound right but ring hollow. Brandon laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Cemetery where he said, “Today, we renew our sacred vow. It’s a simple vow. To remember. To remember. Memorial Day is always a day where pain and pride are mixed together.”

I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and trust that he was sincere in his comments. I have my doubts but maybe in that moment, he meant it. Where it gets sticky for me is that the Resident visited the site of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas over the weekend. On Monday, he said some things about the right to bear arms that these multitudes of men and women he so honored died to protect.

President Biden on Monday took aim at 9mm handguns, appearing to suggest that the “high-caliber weapons” ought to be banned.

Let’s just stop there a second, shall we? “High caliber weapons”? Caliber is the nominal bore diameter of a firearm. Think of the gun barrel as a pipe. The inner diameter of the pipe is the nominal bore diameter.

Nominal bore diameter also applies to the diameter of a bullet. So when we talk about 9mm handguns, we’re talking about barrels that accommodate a 9mm bullet.

But where is Brandon getting the notion of a “high-caliber weapon”?

You might have a “large caliber” weapon or a “high-powered weapon” but, technically, there isn’t a “high-caliber” weapon unless you’re referring to wider diameters. But that doesn’t necessarily mean more powerful cartridges.

It’s like calling an AR-15 an “assault rifle.” There is no such thing except in the fevered ignorance of a progressive.

“High-caliber weapon” is a misnomer, perhaps to create the perception of something more dangerous—or maybe it’s evidence of “I don’t know what I’m talking about and neither do the people talking in my earpiece so I’m making $#!+ up.”

It’s hard to know since these people are both ignorant and lie with great enthusiasm, but I’m betting it’s the latter with Brandon.

Either way, it’s inaccurate.

Also, why the 9mm handgun? There are .22 caliber handguns, .45 caliber handguns, .357 caliber handguns, .38 caliber handguns and more. Why is Brandon picking on the 9mm handgun? Is it more dangerous than any of the others? It’s smaller than the .45 caliber. It’s nearly the same diameter as the .357 caliber.

Why the 9mm?

Recounting a visit to a New York trauma hospital, Biden said doctors showed him X-rays of gunshot wounds.

“They 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,” Biden said.

Ah. He’s comparing the damage done by a .22-caliber bullet and the damage done by a 9mm bullet. One lodges in the lung, the other “blows the lung out of the body.” With one, the person is still alive and might make it home with both lungs intact. With the other, the person has lost a lung and presumably died.

My question is, Why would that person end up in the hospital with a bullet in their lung or missing a lung?

Maybe Brandon is thinking of gangbangers who shoot indiscriminately at each other in Democrat-run cities?

Oops, no, he makes clear that he’s thinking of personal defense.

“So, the idea of these high-caliber weapons is, uh, there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting,” Biden added.

Ah, so the guy he’s thinking of is in the hospital with a .22 bullet in his lung because he was shot in self-defense. But according to Brandon, there is “simply” no “rational” basis for these “high-caliber weapons” when it comes to “self-protection” or “hunting.”

Huh.

You don’t say.

Then why does the U.S. Secret Service equip all of their agents—the very same agents that provide around-the-clock security for the Resident—with a 9mm Glock handgun instead of a .22 handgun?

I’ll tell you why. Brandon is singling out the 9mm because it is the most popular caliber among law enforcement, the military, and the general population. It is as powerful, more accurate, and easier to shoot than the larger .45 or slightly larger .357 calibers, which often have more recoil than a 9mm.

In other words, citizens with 9mm handguns have (mostly) equal fire power with what the authorities carry.

Can’t have that.

Most egregious were Brandon’s comments on the Second Amendment.

“Remember, the constitution was never absolute.”

What in the actual blazing bullocks does he mean? “The constitution was never absolute“?! I mean, first of all, is he really referring to the entire document? That would be par for the course with progressives, who see the constitution as a “living document” which is another way of saying, “it can change when it suits our agenda.”

Then the Waffle Cone-in-Chief narrowed his focus with the ridiculous argument he’s used before.

“You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed,” Biden said. “You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weaponry.”

Ackshully, Joe, you could.

This is a slightly revised talking point that he used in an interview with Wired magazine in 2020, which Politifact ruled “False.” In another article about Brandon’s statement, the authors write, “Indeed, as pointed out by Politifact, personally-owned ship’s cannons were used on American privateers in the War of 1812, with more than 500 letters of marque issued by President James Madison’s administration authorizing such legal piracy. Should we mention here that Madison was a Framer of the Second Amendment?”

In other words, Brandon is lying. You could own a cannon, the U.S. Constitution is absolute, and the only reason he wants to ban 9mm handguns is that they are the most popular handgun in America.

Do not trust this man.

Period.