'Are you out of step with your constituents?' journalist Shannon Bream asked Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee on Sunday.
polling on the issue to suggest there was a disconnect between many GOP lawmakers and the American public.shows that there is a lot of strength behind some of these proposal at this point," Bream said. She then put the polling data on the screen, showing strong majorities backed key gun reform proposals.
"There is a lot of momentum at least among the public sphere for doing this. Are you out of step with your constituents?" Bream asked Lee. "What's important is that we look out for the rights of constituents," the GOP senator responded."Constituents are asked poll questions. They're not asked questions about specific language within legislative text. It's the job of the lawmaker to look out for the interest and the rights of the law abiding citizens they represent."
Lee said that"with each of those provisions, I understand how they could get high popularity ratings when they don't define them." He argued that some of the proposals in the polling are too vague and not defined specifically enough. "The text does matter here because it's that text that will determine whether we're intruding unduly on the rights of the American law abiding citizen and doing so in a way that would actually deter violent criminal behavior," the Utah Republican added.
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