Gillibrand's tearful plea to Bernie: Give up your guns

[workinclasszero]

Gillibrand's tearful plea to Bernie: Give up your guns
New York's junior senator, in an interview for POLITICO's 'Off Message' podcast, says that Sanders lacks the 'sensitivity' to understand how gun violence devastates families.
By GLENN THRUSH 04/18/16 05:27 AM EDT

His option? Change positions. That’s what Kirsten Gillibrand, a proud, passionate turncoat on guns, urges her Senate colleague from Vermont to do for the sake of his politics and, you know, his immortal soul.

“I was somebody who was not as focused on this, as I should have been, as a House member. Meeting these families devastated me, broke my heart,” said Gillibrand, when I suggested she switched positions as a matter of political expediency in a deep-blue state where most Democrats favor stringent gun restrictions.


Gillibrand, a 49-year-old mother of two young sons not prone to public expressions of emotion, began to cry in mid-sentence. “It’s so crippling — I mean, I sat down with a mother last week in Brooklyn, and she lost her 4-year-old baby … she took her kid to a park,” she said. “Every mom takes their kid to a park. And she took her kid to a park and the kid was killed, a baby, a 4-year-old … [Sanders] doesn’t have the sensitivity he needs to the horror that is happening in these families. I just don't think he's fully getting how horrible it is for these families.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/bernie-sanders-kirsten-gillibrand-off-message-222070

[KPN]

1. Alligator tears.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Bernie is a single-issue candidate

He acts like he cares about gun control, but he really doesn't.

[wendylaroux]

4. you broken record,you CAN'T sue manufactures unless the

product is defective.little Annie Clinton ids the one who does not care.Ask Obama.

[all american girl]

19. Voting against the Brade Bill 5 times....

Why did he do that.

[aikoaiko]

9. Well, he doesn't want to destroy the gun industry if that what you mean.

[workinclasszero]

14. Agreed

Makes the same speech every time too.

[wendylaroux]

3. ok,lol,get real people

[BeyondGeography]

5. He has always been right about everything so why evolve?

That's the way he comes off at least.

As an aside, people who complain about Hillary in the debates obviously aren't seeing what I see; zero listening skills and no tolerance for dissent. When he isn't wagging his finger, he's talking over people. We grow folks like that around here in New York like lawns in the summertime. They don't make good leaders.

[NurseJackie]

13. "They don't make good leaders."

Yes. Exactly. Thank you.

[Autumn]

6. Bernie own guns? Cool, it doesn't bother me as long as he keeps them in a safe I see no reason

he needs to give them up.

[aikoaiko]

8. Emotionalism is really the only thing the anti-gun gun can do.

That's why repealing PLCAA is so important to them. They know that they will eventually get a jury or judge who will be swayed by emotions rather than the law and find a gun manufacturer or small-time gun shop liable for the act of a criminal.

[wendylaroux]

10. Last time H ran for prez,Obama nicknamed her Little Annie Clinton ,remember that? lol

as if H cares,please.

[Kittycat]

11. Does she still keep rifles under her bed in reach of her kids?

Or locked up in a gun safe where they should be?

Just curious. I remember it was a big deal when made that comment. Keeping loaded rifles under her bed is not exactly what I would call a responsible gun owner.

[jfern]

12. Does she remember how pro gun Hillary was in 2008?

[jmg257]

15. Is this her point? "a Democratic bill that would hold weapons manufacturers liable for gun violence"

The article wasn't very clear on what she was after.

[aikoaiko]

16. Gillibrand: "There's something wrong when an industry sells anything to anyone anytime"

That situation doesn't exist and I'm fairly certain she knows it.

Its a despicable thing to say that as if it were true.

[ecstatic]

17. That's a lot he doesn't get.

He lives in a cozy little echo chamber. He doesn't even realize that he's a hypocrite.

[Surya Gayatri]

18. K & R. Thanks for posting. Bravo Sen. Gillibrand.

[catnhatnh]

20. Hillary and her surrogates don't evolve often,

but when they do it's always politically "convenient"...

[Kentonio]

21. Yeah obviously the best thing to do is be totally opposed to guns in all forms

That will totally ensure that the right enter into sensible discussion on the issue and a compromise can be found..