Posted on 03/25/2018 11:43:09 AM PDT by Simon Green
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, says that now is the time for he and his colleagues on Capitol Hill to "change our positions and re-examine" bans on high-capacity magazines and assault weapons. He told CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that there needs to be a debate about restrictions in the wake of the Parkland school shooting.
"I think it's time for us to have a legitimate debate about restrictions on gun magazines and assault weapons. You get into definitions, but the basic notion of these weaponized, militarized weapons need to be off our streets. And even the Trump administration took some small step this weekend on bump stocks. So I think it's time. And I hope these kids continue to press," said Warner.
Warner has voted against bans of high-profile assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in the past, and he supported efforts to protect gun owner privacy and grant rights to carry concealed weapons across state lines. He has however, supported the Fix NICS background check bill which was included in the sweeping $1.3 trillion spending bill the president signed into law late last week.
Warner applauded student activists across the country, including those who marched in Washington, D.C., at the March for Our Lives rally on Saturday. The march drew an estimated 200,000 people to the Washington rally. Warner said after hearing students call for gun reforms, "This time it's going to be different."
"There was finally some incremental movement. But in this era of fake news and disinformation to see the genuineness of all those young people, I think this time it's going to be different," he said. "I think their demand for sensible gun control, I think we can actually get it done. And I just hope they will keep that energy alive and moving forward."
He added, "It was democracy in action, not just in Washington but all across the country yesterday."
Warner noted that the students' next planned walkout in April is "appropriate" but said registering to vote and participating in the upcoming elections is "the way you change democracy."
You can support fascism or you can support the Constitution. You cannot support both.
No.
Hitler’s Youth were enthusiastic, too. Mob rule is not the way the USA is supposed to work.
I suggest whoever can’t support and defend the Constitution should quit govt. They can also leave the country if they want to.
Warner=Fidiot.
Bend over and grab your knees.
A weaponized militarized weapon?
OK, thanks for playing...
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As if Democrats didn’t already have a steep enough hill to climb back to power. Now idjits like Mark Warner are beckoning their fellow lib politicians to embrace the third rail of American politics.
Go ahead, Dems. Take that last step into total political oblivion.
Warner is an idiot, but this might give us what we need to get rid of him.
Democrats think if they remove Guns from everyone they’ll control the country and run it like the Chinese President Yogi Bear controls China
exactly- they aren’t militarized weapons- they are civilian arms- which is why they are legal, precisely because they aren’t militarized, ie fully automatic
To Warner and his ilk, Democracy = Mob Rule. And this is a Republic, Mark.
I’m re-watching “Red Dawn” again after 30 years. Only this time it wasn’t Russians in the parachutes....
Confiscation is coming in one form or another. Only question is if “Free America” puts up a fight - or meekly rolls over.
There are currently approximately 98,000 public Elementary, Middle and High Schools in the United States. There are approximately 5,300 public universities and colleges. This number was obtained from a simple Google search.
That is approximately 104,300 public schools in the United States.
From 2000 to present day, there have been 214 shootings at public schools in the United States.
That means that 0.2% of public schools have had a shooting incident in the past 18 years. This includes gang related shootings and domestic dispute shootings that occurred at schools.
There are approximately 75 million students attending colleges and primary education schools in the United States. Every year. During the past 18 years there have been 269 people killed, and 386 people injured.
That is 0.00087% of the people being killed or wounded.
So, exactly how big of a problem is this?
Hey, Mark....FU! How about THAT?
restrictions on gun magazines....
I read that the shooter used 20 round magazines because the bigger ones wouldn’t fit in his duffle.
Not that such things matter to a hyperpartisan leftist like warner.
This guy is a pandering ass. If he ever had an original idea, he would probably keel over dead.
This is great, and the first step needs to be to limit how the entertainment industry glorifies guns and violence by PROHIBITING the display of ALL “assault Weapons” in ALL Movie and Television Productions.
All current TV shows and Movies depicting evil assault weapons are hereby BANNED from Publicly Showing or Viewing.
Maybe it should be A FELONY punishable by Life in Prison to depict an Assault Weapon in ANY Entertainment Production??
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