President called the sale of semiautomatic weapons 'sick' and continued to call for an assault weapons ban and better red flag laws in the wake of mass shootings at a Chesapeake, Virginia and a Colorado Springs club. 'The idea that we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick,' Biden told reporters on Thursday, during a quick stop at the Nantucket Fire Department, to bring first responders some pumpkin pie. 'It's just sick. It has no, no social redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.' As he walked up to reporters, he also pushed back on criticism of red flag laws - that they could be used to target people and take away their guns, instead of remove weapons from individuals who are truly dangerous - calling that notion 'ridiculous.'
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