Sen Michael Bennet (D-CO) on Gun Control
Background checks work in Colorado, should work nationally
My state--which is a Western state, the Second Amendment state--passed the background checks that are waiting for Mitch McConnell to put on the floor. Every year, about 2 or 3% of the people that try to buy a gun in Colorado can't buy a gun; and they are murderers and they are domestic abusers and they are convicted felons of violent crimes. There is nobody who could defend any of those people having a firearm. If we can do it in Colorado, certainly, we could do it nationally.
Source: CBS Face the Nation interview for Democratic 2020 Veepstakes , Aug 11, 2019
Even coming from a "gun state," this bonehead Democrat doesn't (or didn't know what he is (or was) talking about.
There are many reasons for a denial not involving felonies or violent crimes. I don't know if he's been told the truth by the DNC or not by now, 2022, but this snippet illustrates that these jerks are creating and touting legislation under faulty knowledge.
This brings me to my point that "Tulsi" was elected to
represent her constituency, and her constituency (Hawaiians) is overwhelmingly ignorant of the Western principles involving liberty and self-determination.
I read a translation of the Second Amendment
from Hawaiian back into English a while ago and it read "...of the people (militia) shall not be infringed."
Just like that, with "militia" falsely inserted in parenthesis. This gives a totally different flavor to the meaning of the Second Amendment.
I have no doubt that "Tulsi" could well have, with all integrity, become more familiar with those principles of freedom and self-determination which would have been almost totally absent in her constituency.
I was active on the Hawaiian gun site for many years and figure I know what I'm talking about on Hawaiian attitudes.
See 2ahawaii.com
In any case, we should not be knocking someone who has so eloquently summarized our basic positions on so many "lib versus con" matters.