Biden 'Weapons' Chatter

 In general, if you use forty years of Biden-chatter as your 'tool'....95-percent of what he talks about or suggests....never occurs.  Even from the 5-percent that might accidentally get resolved or pushed.....you can count on half of that to marginally change or improve anything.  

Over the weekend, he got onto gun control, and telling the Congress that they need to do something.  

The key driving point?  He wants a list of weapons of war, that would be quickly evolving into a list of things that he could issue an EO upon and halt sales.

So could the AR-15 rifle be a 'weapon of war'?  No.  There is not a single country in the world that runs a military....that has purchase contracts for the AR-15 rifle.  None.

Yes, the M-16 is sold and could be on this 'weapon of war' listing.  But the AR-15 lacks full-auto capability.  Without that....it's useless in a war situation.  

AK-47?  Well....if it was designed and built as the semi-automatic role only....then it's in the same position....it can't be a 'weapon of war'.  The automatic version (typically not sold in the US)....is sold in different versions and used by a minimum of forty countries in military situations.  

Mayan spears from 700 years ago?  Well....you could make the case that they are 'weapons of war'.

Catapults?  You could make the case they also are weapons of war.

Swords?  You could make the case they also are weapons of war.

So all this chatter may just lead into a wide circle, and end up with nothing accomplished?  More or less.  

If you went into the heart of Detroit, and asked most urbanized middle-class families (even those who say they are Democratic-homes)....the vast majority will admit they have a weapon or two in the house.  Some might even admit that they have five or six guns in the house.  A few might even admit that they've had to shove the weapon in the face of a person at least once in their life.

AR-15s around the nation?  The current estimate is five to ten million in the hands of Americans....some Republican, some independent, and some Democratic.  I don't see much occurring here except Biden getting a front-page article and some House Democrats shaking their head because their district doesn't want anything really changed.  

(Just for the record, in 2010-2011....72k cases of confiscated knives in schools occurred, and no one really remarks much about stabbings or threats via a knife)