DETROIT – Joe Biden was defensive when confronted about gun rights while campaigning Tuesday at an assembly plant in Detroit.
Video from NBC News shows Biden being confronted by a worker at a Fiat-Chrysler plant about his views on gun rights. The worker accused Biden of attacking the Second Amendment.
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“You’re full of s*** ... I support the Second Amendment,” Biden said before naming off guns he owns and explaining his family hunts.
An aide tried to interrupt, but Biden was determined to engage with the critic. The Democratic presidential hopeful argued he is not for “taking guns away” after the worker said a viral video shows Biden saying just that.
“I’m not taking your gun away at all. Do you need 100 rounds? ... I did not say that ... it’s a viral video like the other ones that they’re putting out where they say what they want,” said Biden.
WATCH: "You're full of s---," Joe Biden tells an assembly plant worker in Detroit after the man confronted Biden about his views on gun rights, asserting that Biden was trying to take away guns.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 10, 2020
"I support the Second Amendment," Biden told him, while naming off guns he owns. pic.twitter.com/Z1j2an9XCd
This was at the FCA Mack plant that is being retooled for new Jeep production.
President Rapid Response Director Andrew Bates issued this statement on the incident:
“Democrats want someone who will stand up for their principles. Gun reform is something he’s been extremely serious about for decades and this epidemic of mass shootings is intolerable. If we’re going to take on Donald Trump and win -- and gain more down-ballot victories across the country -- we have to own our convictions and fight back against disinformation that rightwing demagogues like Donald Trump are hoping Americans will buy.”
Tuesday is Michigan’s primary. Biden’s campaign has a watch party scheduled for 8 p.m. at Thomas Magee’s Sporting House Whiskey Bar in Detroit.
Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders also was in Michigan, a state he won back in March 2016, campaigning at polling locations. Polls close at 8 p.m. across the state.
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