Posted March 22, 2018 3:28 pm by Comments

By Sarah Taylor

Edkward V. Stack, CEO of Dick’s Sporting Goods, issued a rallying call for gun control after his stores announced that they would no longer sell “assault-style weapons.”

What did he say?

Stack wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Wednesday that it’s high time for Congress to “do something about guns” in the wake of February’s deadly Parkland, Florida, mass killing.

Stack, who identifies as a gun-owning supporter of the Second Amendment, said the government isn’t as focused on keeping citizens — specifically children — as safe as they should.

“[I] understand why, for many, the right to bear arms is as American as baseball and apple pie,” he wrote. “But I also agree with what Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in his majority opinion in 2008’s landmark Heller case: ‘Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited.’”

“It is ‘not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose,’” Stack wrote, noting that it’s “clear we have a problem with the gun laws in this country.”

Stack went on to say that mass killings aren’t ceasing and that the only thing that gets accomplished after each …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze

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