Posted March 19, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) used to be pretty pro-gun. She was a pro-gun Democrat, a rare breed to be sure.

Then she got into the United States Senate. Now that she’s running for president everything changed, and now she’s claiming she regrets her pro-gun past.

“I regret, actually, not caring about other communities,” Gillibrand said about her time in office. “My community didn’t have the gun violence that other parts of the state had, and in fact, the biggest issue for upstate New York was hunting rights.”

“My mother didn’t just cook the Thanksgiving turkey, she shot the Thanksgiving turkey, so I came from a different lens, but what I regret is I should have cared more about ending gun violence in other places and so the first thing I did when I became a senator was met with families who lost their loved ones to gun violence,” she continued.

“When you meet a mother or father who has lost a child to gun violence, there is no way you will ever not answer them directly and say I will do something to end gun violence, and that’s what I did.”

In other words, she’s blatantly admitting that emotion, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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