Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn’t make any friends in the gun ban lobby during last night’s Democratic presidential debate. The candidate from Massachusetts sidestepped a question posed by moderator Chuck Todd, who asked Warren what she planned to do with the millions of privately-owned firearms in the United States.
Rather than answer the question, Warren called “gun violence” a “national health emergency” and regurgitated policy proposals like universal background checks, banning “weapons of war,” and expanding research into gun violence prevention.
Todd, who has been soundly chastised by the left-wing media for his gun-related questions, didn’t let Warren off the hook.
“You didn’t address — do you think the federal government needs to go and figure out a way to get the guns that are already out there?” he asked.
Again, Warren refused to answer. She reiterated her idea that guns should be treated as a “serious research problem” and seemed to suggest that the only acceptable gun owners are the ones who do not fire their weapons.
Democrat Elizabeth Warren refuses to answer whether she will have the government go door-to-door and confiscate semi-auto firearms from law-abiding Americans pic.twitter.com/2IJARshULi
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) June 27, 2019
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“What I think we need to do is we need to treat it like a serious research problem, which we have not done,” she said. “You know, guns in the hands of a collector who’s had them for decades, who’s never fired them, who takes safety seriously, that’s very different from guns that are sold and turned over quickly.
“We can’t treat this as an across-the-board problem. We have to treat it like a public health emergency. That means bring data to bear and it means make real change in this country, whether it’s politically popular or not.”
Interestingly (and hilariously), Sen. Cory Booker also sidestepped Todd’s question, even though Booker has expressed support for a national gun buyback program.
When Todd asked how Booker’s buyback program would work, the senator helpfully explained how seven people had been shot in his neighborhood last week and he’s “tired of hearing people all, they have to offer is thoughts and prayers.”
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Booker vowed to take on the “corporate gun lobby” who has been allowed to “frame the debate,” but offered no further specifics.
Sen. Warren has surged in recent days to become the clear third option behind Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden. While Biden is the clear front-runner with between 25 and 38 percent of the vote, Warren has jumped from 7-8 percent in May to 19 percent, per the most recent polling data.
Booker is still polling between 1 and 3 percent.
Every dem candidate is for confiscation. People who whine about calling political parties “nazi’s,need to look at what they stand for. “Free speech “for them,not the rest of us, gutting the Constitution, and controlling the “pheasants “. Gun control is just a start. They always say “if we can save just one life or child “,if they really ment it, they would be against murdering babies in the womb. They were for the border wall until Trump started to build it! Then it became “un-American “. Time to call the Democrats what they are ,a domestic threat to America.
“Read my lips: no new gun confiscation….. until I have been in office for a month.”
That’s a yes, don’t kid yourself. President Trump 2020
Liz warren the fake Indian is a pathetic joke… lied her entire life to get where she is, falsely using affirmative action to advance her career.. Massachusetts should be ashamed her. She preaches to the stupid sheep that they can stop gun violence by stripping away our constitutional rights… the 47 year war on drugs and they can’t even keep drugs out of Federal prison
Stand by the 2nd Amendment, and when Big Leftist Brother comes for your guns, shoot him! These fools will be among the first to go, if a revolution or civil war begins in America. Lock and load.
Of course she would take our Firearms. she’s a commie loving democrat! If there any democrats who are not liberal gun grabbers then switch parties if you have the guts.
That is a Ship of Fools right there! Oh and BTW Pull Your Heads out of your asses!
The last time this country wanted to make a change that was not politically correct over 600,000 Americans were killed and we all know the problems that brought on in predominately Democratic cities nationwide 150 years later. The next go around will be significantly bloodier if the Democrats try to enforce their unconstitutional Democratic Agenda on Americans who neither support or wish to have it rammed down their throats.
What a mess. If only they took time to educate themselves, and quit trying to blame an the tool instead of the holder.
Does she really want to start a civil war?
i’d be more worried if she’d said, ‘take the guns now, go through due process later.’
It was funny to watch them talk about guns and “assault weapons”. Biden called magazines clips, and Buttajudge said he used them in the military, even though the military uses fully automatic weapons, and what he calls “assault weapons: are semi-automatic. None of those people know anything about guns, yet they want to legislate against them.
An interesting question, but it ignores the obvious elephant in the room: probably 1 BILLION firearms distributed in about half of America’s 100 million households, and trillions of rounds of ammo to feed them.
Do the math: if just 3% resist, and only 10% of the resisters are successful in defending themselves, those are some really big numbers for the confiscators to consider.
Who is going to be first in line to be one of the 300,000 defeated confiscators? Warren? Booker? Harris?
Thumbs up
She’s in lock step with Joesph Stalin.
“If Republicans won’t disarm, we shall disarm them ourselves!”
Elisabeth Warren
“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are … endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…. That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men…. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. … Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Declaration of Independence (1776).”
Is anyone here in doubt of how Pocahontas would deal with the question?
Anyone, left or right leaning, who wants to take away my rights deserves to be executed. We are passed the point of civility. Polite discourse has failed. These people are criminals.
I hope and pray that you are wrong. The next step would involve wholesale slaughter that this country hasn’t seen since 1865. I hope saner heads prevail on the left.
Refuse isn’t the word here she avoided the question.