Marsha Blackburn opposes gun control because of ‘hammers’ and ‘hatchets’
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Sunday said that gun control laws were not the answer to mass shootings because hatchets, guns, cars and video games all had a role in violent deaths in the United States.
“What I’m hearing is that people want to make certain that — first of all — that we protect the Second Amendment and their Second Amendment rights — protect their freedom and not impede that,” Blackburn told CNN’s Candy Crowley, adding that the focus should really be on “psychiatric and psychotropic drugs.”
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“I think that the president is committed to this,” he explained. “Probably background checks, probably the [high-capacity] ammunition clips. But there is going to be another shooting probably, sadly. So, this is going to stay in the consciousness. I don’t think this is going to recede.”
“But the problem is that it could be a hammer, a hatchet, a car, a gun,” Blackburn argued.
“But hammers, hatchets and cars aren’t quite as fast as those clips,” Crowley noted.
“We’re still needing to look at this mental health,” Blackburn continued. “And you have to make sure that you’re protecting an individual’s rights.”
Republicans blame video games, antidepressants and mental illness. I blame right wing ideology, which causes mental illness. There are no mass shootings committed with hammers, hatchets or cars. I'm so sick of their crackpot irrationality.
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