Cory Booker Invokes ‘Shrines To Dead Children’ To Shill For Gun Control

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Steven Senne

Cory Booker is desperately trying to back away from his “I am Spartacus” moment during the Kavanaugh hearings. To do that, he’s delving into the deep slime of anti-gun rhetoric.

In particular, he’s using the bodies of dead children as a soapbox.

More than 9 in 10 U.S. voters want anyone buying a gun from anywhere to undergo a background check.

Yet there is no indication that the Senate will take up legislation to do just that, even as the House acted last month and passed its first gun control bill in a quarter-century. Nor is a ban on assault weapons on the agenda, even though two-thirds supported it in a February Quinnipiac University poll.

That’s angered U.S. Sen. and presidential candidate Cory Booker, who supports both measures and once joined a filibuster to force votes on the issue.

“There’s something really wrong with a society that can’t get things done where overwhelmingly the majority of people agree that we need to get it done,” Booker, D-N.J., said Tuesday.

“I’m tired of seeing sidewalk shrines to dead children in my community and in cities all across America and people doing nothing to …Read the Rest

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