Cub Scout booted from den after asking Colorado lawmaker about gun control (VIDEO)
By Andrew Shepperson
A Colorado Cub Scout was kicked out of his den after questioning a state lawmaker about her stance on gun control and race in the U.S.
The 11-year-old Cub Scout, Ames Mayfield, asked several pointed questions during an Oct. 9 meeting with Republican State Sen. Vicki Marble for which the scouts were told to prepare questions on issues important to them. Mayfield’s mother recorded her son asking Marble why she refused to support stricter gun regulations and posted the video to YouTube.
“I was shocked that you co-sponsored a bill to allow domestic violence offenders to continue to own a gun,” the scout said, also noting the recent mass shooting in Las Vegas during his more than two-minute series of questions. He continued: “Why on earth would you want someone who beats their wife to have access to a gun?”
Marble, a staunch gun rights advocate, responded by defending her position and legislative record and said that mass shootings like those in Las Vegas and Aurora, Colorado had occurred in gun-free zones.
“We need crime control,” Marble said, “and it has been shown that the more guns a society has, the less crime and murders are committed.”
Marble also deployed the often-used Chicago talking point, seeming to
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