Dem Debate Part 2: Silence (Or Suppression) On Gun Control

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/Paul Sancya

After getting at least a few minutes of superficial attention during the first night, gun control wasn’t brought up during the second night of CNN’s two-night Democrat presidential debate. Moderators didn’t bring up the issue, and none of the candidates on stage sought to highlight the “gun violence epidemic” in any way.

The closest we came to the issue was Corey Booker going after Joe Biden once more over Biden’s support of the 1994 crime bill; the same legislation that included the “assault weapons ban” that expired in 2004 is now opposed by today’s Left. They don’t like the crime bill because they say it led to mass incarceration of young minority males for non-violent drug offenses. Corey Booker is running on a plan of reforming the criminal justice system and attacks the 94 crime bill on a regular basis for its systemic bias.

But Corey Booker has a problem, one that no Democrat will bring up, but one that Donald Trump most certainly could exploit. Booker’s criminal justice reform policies are directly contradicted by the centerpiece of his gun control plans.

Corey Booker’s federal gun licensing law would disproportionately put young men of color in prison simply for possessing a …Read the Rest

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