Rep. Dingell on guns: Forefathers could never believe the danger we live in - Velshi - The Last Word
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi speaks to Michigan Congresswoman Debbie Dingell about an appeals court ruling that people under domestic violence restraining orders still have a constitutional right to a gun and her own personal experiences with domestic violence when she was growing up. - Aired on 02/03/2023.
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Which were necessary for our survival as a country back then - our forefathers carried guns to defend the new country, the current "gun rights" Republicans supported the insurrection to overthrow it. 
Wanted to overturn the government that the Founding Fathers created.
Nor did I know about her husband (who she was elected to succeed) keeping a gun under his pillow! I looked him up and he was first sworn in by Sam Rayburn in 1955! He was considered a moderate liberal and holds the record as the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history. And at the beginning of every Congress, he introduced a bill providing for a national health insurance system, the same bill that his father proposed while he was in Congress. Sounds like she's upholding the family's progressive traditions and I agree that we're so fortunate to have her. 