Anti-gun activists, Dems attack ‘imaginary 2nd Amendment’ after school shooting

By Chris Eger

Friday’s Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas left Democrat lawmakers and gun control advocates calling for change.
In response to the event in the Houston suburb that saw a 17-year-old student kill 10 and leave another dozen injured, Democrats in Congress quickly laid the blame for the incident on the spotty success of moving gun control measures forward in Washington.
“This an epidemic of horrifying proportions, and Congress has made a deliberate, conscious choice to facilitate this slaughter,” said U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who then proclaimed on social media, “I support the real 2nd Amendment, not the imaginary 2nd Amendment.”
Murphy went on to clarify that his interpretation of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms “allows Congress to wake up to reality and ban these assault rifles that are designed for one purpose only — to kill as many people as fast as possible,” although reports from Sante Fe state that the suspect in the shooting that killed eight students and two faculty used a Remington 870 pump shotgun and a .38-caliber revolver, neither of which would have fallen under the former federal assault weapons ban.
Murphy was joined by Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, who said,”Thoughts & prayers aren’t enough!

Source: Guns.com