"Most people don't know it, you walk into a store and you buy a gun, you have a background check. But you go to a gun show, you can buy whatever you want and no background check," he said.

OK, now here is a bit more analysis by/from the article that i just read, you might call it 'fact-checked':

"Biden's comment appeared to be a misstatement of what is commonly described by Democrats as the "gun show loophole" around background checks. In reality, federally licensed vendors have to conduct background checks regardless of whether they are selling guns out of a store or at a show.

The "loophole" really applies to private sellers. Individuals are permitted to sell guns to other individuals without conducting background checks, regardless of where the sale takes place. These sales often take place at gun shows, as gun owners can sell there or use the events convenient and secure meeting points for the parties involved."

That's the end of the article's quote, ... so taking another look at JB's quote from earlier today... i typically assume that nationally televised blatant flasehhods are a 'mistake', hopefully, perhaps, and maybe in this case it's by an ignorant person that should know better then to turn away from his teleprompter and 'show his hand', maybe... or it's a flat-out full-on deceptive lie... it's been my experience that when 'important' people that are very very 'passionate' about controversial issues it's the lie thing... it's the flat out lie if you are important and do not take your job seriously enough to slow yourself down to speak intelligently about important topics but resort to falling back on manipulative propaganda and uncomfortably old 'talking points'... those usually aren't small little details that people 'mis-remembered'... those are the sorts of things that you or i might do with our own levels of responsibility if we are very tired, or trying to impress our buddies, but is that the sort of quality that you should be looking for in someone with the audacity to 'run' our country or lead anything? if so then that's on you... most adults understand this already but my impressionable young kids probably do not, so maybe they will appreciate reading this someday. -- ct

04-09-21: Beautiful morning in rockingham county, the sun is literally shining and the birds are back and full-on singing, my cream to sugar ratio was executed well so the coffee is working it's magic. kids are schooling, wife is working and i have an ambitious mental checklist of things to do, guess i'll prioritize the outside stuff, it's too perfect out. might be giving the landlady a ride to her second vaccine appt, she has a hard enough time driving down the street these days, nevermind the next county over she is suppossed to call if she didnt get her regular transportation, and i'll probably have to help my two remote learners today... one to help stay awake and the other to keep calm despite her crazy school-work load, she's got it tough this year... and then there is me, what do i do about me today besides get off my ars and do what's got to get done, it seems that writing is a good healthy start for me these days, the more i do the more i feel free to be myself and enjoy the life thats going on around me. my routine and ego says chug the coffee and lets go get it done but i have no reason to rush these days, i still move twice as fast as i need to (which is twice as fast as most normal people) but its slow enough that i dont feel as rushed as my former 'busy lifestyle' had 'required'. i dont know that i could ever actually retire but technically i am 'unemployed' so i'm not really working, and i have more time to get life's real priorities done with my time now, is this what retirement is like, i mean i guess im old enough to think along those lines even though my ego still says im 30... my ego says 30 but most major joints in my body say that ive been 162 years old for a long-ass time already... says the guy that was blessed with the dna for an athletic build and mentors that kept me active enough in my youth that i loved what some people are calling 'fitness' today. i love to move and run and get cardio-vascular stuff churning and chasing a ball or smashing a ball and riding bicycles fast and socializing/sporting with other like-minded folks... i love that stuff like nobody's business... except people forgot to tell me that this athletic spider-monkey of a body actually has limits, i did some organized sports with real coaches that could mentor a young male on mechanics and techniques to help keep your body safe as well as improving skills, but i mostly kept active and moving while not doing organized sports, where other influencers encouraged a teaching/theory that the human body has no limits and if you want to get bigger and stronger and faster you need to eat certain ways and you have to lift lot's and lot's and tons and tons and entirely too much weight... at least thats how i remember it and thats how i proceeded. i proceeded to lift weights incorrectly for entirely too long and mostly because my ego didn't like having a build or a body-type that some people called a gymnast, because my ego said that i do not want to be built like a gymnast i wanted to be built like a 275 pound full-back instead... instead of being happy with what was 5'8 150 lbs body i wanted to be more like the guy that gets the handoff and plows through the middle of the line protecting the ball and getting knocked around and still powering my way down field... but someone forgot to tell me and my ego that a 5'8 white guy with a relatively thin skeletal system and my own unique dna was never ever ever going to be the likes of Marshawn Lynch, not even with the aid of some horse steroids or whatever, nope, not going to happen young chris... maybe a slot receiver or a free safety with some additional bulk that i eventually put on, but not marshawn... i actually did enjoy getting the handoff from time to time but im better with the short route or catching the dude that got away from my boy/teammate. i had contemplated the ridiculous way that i lifted weights recently, it was while explaining to my son how my mentality with weights wasn't to just get stronger, but it was also to shape my frame into something that it wasnt supposed to be, i didn't just want to be stronger and more fit to improve certain skill sets i wanted to completely and drastically alter the person, the dna, the body that i was blessed to have in the first place, i wanted to be what i 'wanted' to be, not what i was 'supposed' to be, i wasn't happy just being me, my ego and lack of knowledge and mentorship decided to take actions into my own ignorant hands and be somebody different than the gifted and slender and athletic person that i already was... im sure that somebody somewhere, actually multiple people probably had told me that i should just be happy with who i am, and probably mentioned the 'grass is always greener' thing that people say but in my young ignorance i didn't understand how that pertained to me, and when i judged my young skinny self against the 'body-builders' of my time which were beginning to receive huge notoriety when i was young i don't know that anyone told me exactly that it was going to pertain to me when i keep listening to people call me skinny with sarcasm and when i go through the sorts of struggles that most people experience in life, like not being happy or satisfied with yourself and comparing myself with the people that i admire because they looked the way that i wanted to look... i don't remember my influencers telling me that exactly, they probably did but i was too into my own thing to listen or pay attention, but what i didn't understand was that every action has a consequence, and when a young boy begins lifting weights with the intensity that i thought was required to move heavy objects that were too darn heavy for me... when you give everything within you to move heavy object and you do not understand exactly how to do it well that bad things can happen because actions have consequences. so for the past 30 years or so i have lived with the consequences of 'pain', it's mostly just joints that get pulled a little bit the wrong way by my constant/continual muscle strains that muscle spasms became a way of life, for over 30 years... i learned many things in life the hard way, much of it is do to my own unhealthy ego, and most of it because people forgot to tell me that people have limits. i have no more desire to be the best anything anymore, i don't need the strongest fastest anything, i have no desire to break any records (except one), i have no desire to compete, and unfortunately i have no desire to lift weights again, i appreciate making outdoor work a full body exercise, my landscaping techniques look a bit intense, and the neighbors dog is still scared of me because of it, the poor critter witnessed what i did to the poor grass around the walkway a couple of years ago and he still cowers when i come close... sorry little buddy, i was just working out a little... but when i do lift weights, when i do actually pump some iron these days i use these cute and brightly colored plastic covered little things that babies can play with because thats the amount of weight required to help get my body straightened out when it gets painful enough for physical therapy, cute haw? ive purchased the whole set actually, a pair of one lb dumb bells, a pair of two lb dumbbells... i got the whole 1 - 5 lb set because thats all it takes to realign an aching body sometimes... maybe if i use them all of the time i'll get ripped again. im of the opinion that my body type was not meant to sit on a chair in an office for several hours per day, i just need to keep moving and being me now and im good to go, mostly.What made me reflect on this topic the most was an article that i read yesterday about Sadie Robertson, who is currently pregnant, talk about 'body shame' sorts of thoughts and ideas that she had/has struggled with, and i understand that she is pretty thin to begin with and that her body is supposed to get big when she's pregnant, but i appreciated that she was genuine and transparent enough to openly talk about her struggle... and that made me think a little bit more about similar struggles that i had most of my life.  i have no problems with the folks that desire to be the best of anything and the time and dedication that it takes to be very good at anything but there is this idea that i don't remember where i read or heard it, but there is this theory that some people that become too focused on themselves, their ambitions, their body type, their lack of boobs, or lack of a weenie, or their feelings and emotions... there is this theory that those folks might be over-thinking certain things and comparing themselves to the neighbors yard, the yard which is always greener... and they might not be able to give their  A-game to the things that are going on around them while they are distracted from being who they really are, or what they are supposed to be, there is a theory that comparing ourselves to what we want to be and taking the unhealthy actions to make our ego's reality come true might be 'self-destructive' to a sense... i am crazy good at being self-destructive sometimes, maybe 'not always' is more accurate.  --  ct

04-09-21 later: self-destructive, maybe, no, similar but not quite ... even still i'm not sure why people that speed by my house bothers me sometimes... sure i hear the knuckleheads with their obnoxious ego exhaust driving by much too often, sure i hear and witness people speeding all of the time, i mean i live on a main street so you sort of have to expect such knuckleheads making some noise and doing their own thing... but sometimes one of them gets me a bit too much, as in the big dummy that i sort of just met a little while ago. i sort of just met him because when he was clearly doing 40ish in a 30 mph zone which a two lane street with cars parked on either side of the road and houses measured by feet and inches close to the street, when im walking home form the bank and a big pick-up full of crap piled up too high comes speeding up behind me and i turn and toward him... that guy, that guy driving that truck at that rate of speed that pulled over when i turned around to indicate that he might be speeding, that guy is the one that bothered me... 99.9999999% of them dont except the little 'angles' that drive by the hundreds with noisy-ass bikes, they get to me a little bit too. Anyway i know that some of my words sound like im an aggressive guy but ask the people closest to me if thats true, and i promise i won't coach them either. this big dummy today was driving fast and aggressive enough that i turned toward him to indicate to slow down a little and he wanted nothing to do with that, nope, he was not going to hear that from me, probably because im significantly smaller than him, maybe a hundred pounds or so and he was certainly taller, maybe 6-8 inches more, so his ego is in such a state that he wants to live life by his own rules and doesn't want to be corrected by anyone, and especially not someone that's significantly smaller than him.. i get you you big grown-up baby, your parents tried but you just want to play life but your own rules not the law of the land, i've encountered tons of folks like you throughout my years, once upon a time big noisy people intimidated me, until i learned a bit more about your type, and learned how to kick the crap out of people that dont really know what they are doing even though they are big and angry, you big baby. you pulled your pathetic little toy truck to a stop on a main street with two other vehicles that had to swerve out of your way because you dont like to be told that you are speeding and thats wrong... getting out of your truck and trying to intimidate me further gave me an indication of what force i might have to use to get you to sit down and shut up so i can explain why going 25% over a speed limit is much less safe than the 5-10% that you probably do on the highway, there is a ratio there that some folks don't understand. so ya get out of your truck and walk up to me and asked what my problem is so i tell you nice and loudly what the speed limit is... no sir, i am not a cop and never was, those folks are much smarter than me. however i noticed that your intimidation didn't seem to work and you realized that when i got in your personal space and began to shout back at you, i noticed that you began to act a little differently, you actually changed your tone a little and gave me a smirk, so far i get most of what just happened, but the smirk could have meant many different things, and that's the part that still bothers me, i need to research. i didn't take his bait and strike him when he asked me to, it would have been too easy... i already figured out what side of your head would be best, but your glasses changed that variable, and so it would have been just below your ribs instead - center mass as they say. there is no way that your gut could have taken it, you have no way to defend yourself from that point on, the rest would have been too easy... ask me why i didn't hit you when you asked me to, because you are too easy and i'd rather just tell you to shut up and stop flying down the street, but if you ask why i did not because it would have been unfair and the type of witnesses around wouldn't have appreciated/stomached that possibility, be glad that i just took a picture of your license plate and gave it to the real police, they seem to handle these things better than i would have... you big baby, now grow up a little already.  I don't mind dealing with big babies when they need to be dealt with, but i'd rather that their parents do/did that for them, because once they leave your house its either the police or me, and both will be a terrible blow to your off-springs ego and an unpleasant wake-up to reality for them... maybe, some deviants never 'grow-up' because they became too much of a handful for everyone that should or could have loved them... everyone has a day of reckoning coming in one manor or another, parents please love your child, don't disrespect them by spoiling them, and please ask for help when your kids become too much of a handful, you do not want to know what i might have to do to them someday when they snap, it gets really ugly and violent real quick, and death is a real possibility when violence occurs depending on how big of a baby you did or didn't raise.  Parents, don't let your kids to grow-up to be like that big knucklehead that i just sort of met, he's a bit disrespectful and doesn't play well with others... and he's gonna be seeing a bad one if he stops back by now that he knows approximately where i live, unless he just wants to have a beer and be friends, that's the logical thing to do, either that or grow up, i'm good with both options.  --  ct

UPDATE 04-11-21: Just want to explain rational for choosing where to hit this big dummy, he did not require it because he was just an angry guy that i think was under a little influence of something and wanted to show that he wanted to be in control of a stupid situation, fine, i appreciate being underestimated, it happens a lot when you are smaller than most folks. typically a guy that is substantially larger than me and is in better shape than the guy i met the other day, those bigger and obviously fit individuals would be more challenging, i wouldn't just go for a head shot or a body punch, i would have ruined his left knee because that was the one that was out in his front, then gone for a really big head shot because folks that are substantially larger and stronger than me are more of a challenge than a big dummy, when circumstances arise where someone that you know can over power you and wants to do so i have to bring him down to my size as quickly and efficiently as possible because fights aren't for fun, fights against an enraged deviant could very well be fights for your life. the guy i met the other day wasn't as much of a threat as some other folks his size would be against me, he was just an angry kid/man that is used to intimidating others and wanted to show me how good at it he is... it's end up that i wasn't impressed. i was pretty sure that this individual would have been fine with a few slaps across his cheeks and told to slow his truck down, some folks are so stunned by a strike to the softest tissue on their face (nose and mouth) that most normal people realize their stupidity in desiring to fight after a quick hard punch in the nose... but not someone that is OK with slamming on his brakes in the middle of the street with two cars behind him, he needed something a bit more harsh, he needed further incapacitation due to his share size. If he was more of a threat i would cave in his most forward knee and then been able to reach his jaw with one of my knees, a big dummy was probably going to just need a couple of harder than expected strikes to smarten-up... if he's just a big dummy and not a nasty deviant i didn't want to ruin his knee or ruin his glasses or chance that the remains of them would need to be removed from his face and possibly eyes, so it was just going to be an unexpected punch in his unfit 'bread basket' to get him to be more reasonable and bring him down to my size if he required anything more... fortunately he was just a big dummy that drove away a bit slower than when we first met... and the smirk that he gave me that bothered me at first i think was the smirk of a guy that realized that his intimidation didn't impress me and he sort of gave me a smirk in acknowledgement that i wasn't a little 'push-over', it might have actually been a smirk of appreciation in some ways, whatever, i never followed back up with the police to see if they decided to follow back up with the big jerk.  on a good day the big jerk and i meet under better circumstances and we might share a couple of beers together, on a bad day it turns out like 4/9, or worse.  --  ct

04-09-21 later: i dont get this at all https://www.foxnews.com/sports/us-olympian-sakura-kokumai-target-angry-rant-california-park ... im ignorant as to asian hate uptick, you see it against jewish folks from time to time as well, i understand that hate exists but i don't get why specific 'races' at specific times other than some nasty instigating.  i 'get' that there are many people that understand the threat that the communist regime in china poses against usa and other democracies around the globe, but why/how do people pick on Asians in general, there is something other than just 'china threat' that is instigating... why do many people think that anyone with different looking eyes are now all of a sudden a threat to society in general, who/why is anyone instigating... i don't get it... lesson to my kids, dad's wisdom to share, or 'dad lesson number 435' as i like to joke... don't ever ever ever assume that someone is anyone else other than a normal regular person just getting along with their daily lives, don't be foooled into thinking that certain people that look a certain way are wrong at their core, they are individuals like you and me... they are not a threat until they show you otherwise... don't be blinded by your ego and inciteful rhetoric... assume that people are just people trying to do what most other regular normal people are trying to do, live a decent life that doesn't victimize others, assume that, unless individuals show otherwise, be ferocious when necessary, but kind to everyone else.  --  ct

04-09-21 even later: i am need of a 'news fast' my blood pressure is getting up for no other reason and its completely illogical... i will medicate and and get back to more important things, i don't need to know whats going on all over the world, thats illogical, whats important is whats in front of me and the people around me... good deep breath in, and let it out slowly, give it 5 more minutes and i'll medicate if necessary... time for a little fast, maybe.  --  ct

04-09-21 wicked late: i just tried a sip of the Zac Brown 2018 Cabernet that my wife got special for me ... I haven't had any vino for quite  awhile... well done ZB, well done.... "It's been a long time coming Couldn't keep on running Had to hit rock bottom to know....
When you keep on losing With the path you're choosing And it's time to let go... Of someone that I used to know."  --  ZB

UPDATE 04-11-21: hey ZB, your 2018 Cabernet paired well with my steak n cheese with onions and mushrooms.. you brought a level of 'smoothness' that i really appreciated yo.  --  ct