Alabamans Are Ready For More Gun Control?

By Tom Knighton

The Deep South has, traditionally, been a haven of gun culture. Down this way, hunting isn’t just a pastime, but a way of life and people take protecting themselves and their family seriously. Guns facilitate both of those things for the average Southerner.

However, that doesn’t mean we don’t have politicians who want to take away our Second Amendment rights.

Enter Alabama’s Doug Jones.

Alabamians are ready for more gun control.

At least that’s what their Democratic Sen. Doug Jones said.

Jones wants tighter background checks for gun sales and to raise the age requirement to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, and he thinks Alabamians are on the same page.

“People in Alabama love their guns, but they also love their children,” Jones told CNN Friday at an event at Birmingham’s Civil Rights Institute sponsored by the Faith and Politics Institute, NOLA.com reported. “And they like to be safe in theaters, and they like to be safe in churches, and I think there is common ground.”

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Source:: Bearing Arms