Dems, Joe Biden best you got?

“Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ... . ” — From the First Amendment to Constitution

Joe Biden has gone where no presidential candidate has gone before. In a rare interview — at least for Biden — given to Wired, the Internet “newspaper,” Biden said rights guaranteed to all Americans by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights are not “absolute.”

While he spoke specifically about the Second Amendment, his ideas about the freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights are dangerous to all American freedoms.

“From the very beginning you weren’t allowed to have certain weapons,” Biden said. “You weren’t allowed to own a canon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.”

History shows what he said is not true. What prevented most people from owning a canon was the cost and availability.

“Anybody think you should be able to go out and have a machine gun these days?” Biden said. “The answer is no, we have a rational policy. No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.”

Again, Biden is wrong. Anybody who can afford one and can find one for sale because there are a limited number of them out there, can buy one with an extensive background check and by purchasing a special federal tax stamp.

Just like owning a canon during the Revolution, what prevents owning an automatic weapon today is the cost and availability.

What should concern every American are his words: “No amendment to the Constitution is absolute.”

If that applies to the Second Amendment, it applies to all of them.

The First Amendment says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

It says Congress can’t establish a state religion or prevent people from exercising their religious beliefs. Democrats are already attacking this one by saying Biblebased beliefs need to be adjusted to meets the needs of the LBGTQP community.

The First Amendment says all Americans have freedom of speech. That too is under attack because the far-left radicals are demanding the “right” not to be offended — the opposite of free speech. Freedom of speech means more than everyone can express their opinion.

The First Amendment protects the right of a freedom of the press. That too is already under attack by big Internet companies that block some conservative sites because of comments they don’t like in the comments section made by people not connected to those conservative sites.

What about the right of people “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Recent protests that were turned into illegal shopping sprees we call looting and massive destruction of other people’s property we call rioting is being used to turn people against this right.

Beyond the First Amendment, what about the Fifth Amendment? It guarantees the right not to be forced to say anything that might incriminate you. It also guarantees the right of a trial by a jury of your peers.

Do any of us really want those not to be an “absolute” right?

As for the Second Amendment, with all the political violence in this country and law enforcement being consistently told to withdraw from an area with rioting, many people who have never owned a gun are buying one. Who wants to be unarmed when the police are removed from protecting us?

The Founding Fathers added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution to restrict the government and provide protection for the God-given rights of every American citizen.

Democrats have long disliked the Bill of Rights. Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a second Bill of Rights that were what the government would do for people instead of what it couldn’t do to people.

Barack Obama called the Bill of Bights “negative rights” that held back the government.

Founding Father Samuel Adams said: “But a Constitution of Government once changed from

Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrender their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.

When a president takes the oath of office, he swears that he will protect and defend the Constitution – the supreme law of the land.

Do we really want a person in the White House who has the view that inalienable rights are just sorta kinda rights?