Steve Scalise sticking to GOP script on gun control, says it's about 'Democrats wanting to take away our guns'
Scalise took issue with the Democrats’ favored positions. “Under the guise of ‘red flag,’ they take away due process,” Scalise protested. Fox’s John Roberts pushed back, noting that such a law would have prevented the gunman in the Buffalo massacre from obtaining the weapon he used to kill 10 people. Scalise didn’t directly respond. “Well, again, due process is a constitutional right,” Scalise said.
Scalise instead urged lawmakers to take up policies such as “hardening schools” and finding a way “help kids identify [the signs of a shooting] before it can happen.” He also blamed the “defund the police movement” and other progressive criminal justice reforms, such as the end of cash bail, for encouraging America’s skyrocketing gun sales. “They can’t have faith in their local police department,” Scalise said.
Scalise was one of five people shot at a practice for the annual congressional baseball game in June 2017. Scalise suffered life-threatening injuries when the gunman, armed with a legally-purchased rifle and handgun, delivered a bullet that tore through the Republican’s hip. The experience has nonetheless hardened Scalise’s pro-guns position: He remindedviewers on Sunday that police officers armed with handguns ultimately “took down” the shooter who fired at him.
Much of Scalise’s comments follow messaging Republicans have prescribed their party in the wake of mass shootings that have, once again, ignited widespread calls for stricter gun laws.on Saturday the GOP has prepared several strategy memos and communications urging Republican candidates to “And yet, for Democrats who have pushed for gun reform since the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, hope springs eternal. “I’ve never been part of negotiations as serious as these,” Sen.
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