Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) questioned the wisdom of a push by congressional Democrats to enact legislation in the immediate aftermath of a tragic shooting in Boulder, CO earlier this week.
Kennedy suggested Democrats were using this moment to enact gun control because he did not think they believed in the Second Amendment as interpreted by the federal government.
âLook, these killings were terrible,â he said. âThey were horrible. Iâm reminded though that, you know, America is a big country. Weâre free, and one of the prices we pay for that freedom is that youâre always going to have some people who abuse it. Freedom is risk. But we have got to concentrate on is how to control that risk. Youâre not going to stop the killings until you stop the killers. But you donât stop drunk drivers by getting rid of all sober drivers, which is what many of my Democratic friends want to do with respect to the Second Amendment.â
âIn my judgment, we do not need more gun control,â Kennedy continued. âWe need more idiot control. How do we do that? We have already tried, the Republicans have. Senator Grassley, Senator Cruz had a bill to strengthen our national database. We regulate gun ownership in America. If you are convicted of certain crimes, if you have a tendency to violence, if you are mentally ill, and you want to buy a gun, your name has to run through a database. The problem is that the database has huge holes in it. And many federal agencies and state agencies are very cavalier about sending in the names. Grassley and Cruzâs bill, which I support, would have tightened up the database, and it would have cracked down on people who have guns who shouldnât have guns.â
âDo you know why the bill didnât pass?â he added. âMany of my Democratic colleagues filibustered it. Now, if you drill down far enough, what youâre going to find â I donât want to paint with too broad a brush â but many, not all, many of my Democratic colleagues â they just donât believe in the Second Amendment. They just donât. I mean, we have heard it in terms of police officers. I mean, basically, the Democratic position is that if a bad guy shoots a cop, itâs the gunâs problem. If a cop shoots a bad guy, itâs the copâs fault. You know, if it werenât for double standards here, we wouldnât have any standards at all.â
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