Posted on 06/12/2016 1:25:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During an interview on Meet The Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders reacted to the horrific mass shooting in Orlando by calling for automatic weapons not to be sold in the US.
During an interview on Meet The Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders reacted to the horrific mass shooting in Orlando by calling for automatic weapons not to be sold in the US.
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Sanders was asked by Chuck Todd for his reaction to the attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL, and he said, “It’s horrific. It’s unthinkable, and just hopes go out to those who were shot that they can recover, and I’ve got to tell you for twenty-five years now, I’ve believed that we should not be selling automatic weapons which are designed to kill people, and we’ve got to do everything we can on top of that to make sure that guns do not fall into the hands of people who should not have them. Criminals and people who are mentally ill, so that struggle continues.”
Todd followed up by asking if the nation can ever have a conversation about terrorism and guns without politicization. Sanders answered, “I do, Chuck. Because I think that there is a very broad consensus in this country, not a hundred percent of the people, overwhelming majority of gun owners and non-gun owners understand that we have got to do everything we can to prevent guns from falling into the hands of people who should not have them. That means expanding the instant background check. It means doing away with the gun show loophole. It means addressing the strawman provision. I think there is a wide consensus to move forward in that direction.”
After each mass shooting, pro-gun extremists always tell the nation that now is not the time to have the discussion about the ease of the ability to purchase deadly weapons in this country. They said it wasn’t time after Sandy Hook. They said it wasn’t time after Charleston, and they will say that it isn’t time after Orlando, but if not now, when?
What the NRA and others never say is that in their view there will never be a good time. No one is talking about confiscating weapons or taking guns away, just ending the enabling of mass killers. Sen. Sanders was correct. There is a broad consensus on the steps that he outlined nationally. What is missing is Congressional Republicans with the guts to take action.
If the Republicans get booted out of the Congressional majority in November, it is a certainty that Democratic president and Congress would take long overdue steps on gun violence because this isn’t political. It’s national security.
Calling Orlando a ‘mass shooting’ is like calling 9/11 an airplane crash
Sanders is an idiot.
“He used an automatic weapon? Really?”
No. Just a plain old semi-auto. Machine guns have been out of public circulation since 1934.
Full auto is already illegal, Bernie, now the less Bernie talks on the matter, the better he will sound.
Outlaw communists and muslims, not guns! More than ever, I refuse to be disarmed!!!!
You can always tell who the real future tryannist are ,,,, they want to disarm the patriots to make easy business of the take-over .
Mais oui.
I call for a Bernie Sanders ban after the Orlando shooting. Some people are too stupid to be free, and the entire state of VT qualifies.
Someone should tell Bernie that gays are SECOND on the hit list of these fanatic psychopaths.
Bernie showed how much of an idiot he is. Automatic weapons are tightly contolled, require a special license and no new ones made after 1986 are transferable.
They were hoping for some gun totin’, bible thumpin’, redneck, homophobic white guy. FAIL. Once again, a person not related to mus-limeism was the perp. Oh, he was. Too bad the AR was really to blame.
Try to buy a gun Bernie. Reay, really quick. Try.
They’ve already gone a step beyond that!
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1. Automatic weapons are banned already. No one can walk into a gun shop and just purchase one.
2. The United States does have, now, universal background checks for gun purchases.
3. The coming Islamic terrorist rampages will involve bombs.
Neither Bernie Sanders, Clinton, nor any other talking head calling for a ban on “assault weapons” —not ONE mentions publicly that the ban bill has ALREADY BEEN INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS in December 2015. And it has moved through several committees already without any changes.
The scum tactic here is to get clueless libtards phoning their congress critters, clamoring for a ban, so the “representatives” can act as if they’re being forced to consider something that wasn’t already in the pipeline.
They’ll tell their constituents, “Thanks for your concern. We’ll get right on it!” with completely straight faces. Then ram it through.
It is far more chilling than Bill Clinton’s previous ban which was allowed to expire. This one guts the 2A and bans almost every type of gun, and criminalizes everyone.
Please read all of H.R. 4269:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4269/text
Evidently Bern doesn’t know his wazoo aperture from a hole in the ground.
ATF says the killer recently bought the weapons. Guaranteed they are not automatics. And the FBI investigated the guy twice in the last few years, but wasn’t flagged from purchasing guns. Makes you wonder...
Bernie and the other 534 Gang Members (and many former…Hillaryous/POSOTUS) should be in federal prison…
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
ESAD socialist puke.
now is not the time to have the discussion about the ease of the ability to purchase deadly weapons in this country. They said it wasn’t time after Sandy Hook. They said it wasn’t time after Charleston, and they will say that it isn’t time after Orlando, but if not now, when?
NEVER!
Silly me. I thought automatic weapons were pretty much banned already. Perhaps we should ban muzzies and democraps.
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