Last Night’s Democratic “Debate” On Gun Control [VIDEO]

By Robert Farago

Last night’s Democratic debate was something of a snoozer. Uh . . . Where was I? Oh right, former First Lady Hillary Clinton reckons that “guns in and of themselves will not make Americans safer” and “it’s not the appropriate response to terrorism.” Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to discourage people from owning guns, apparently. All he wants to do: “create a consensus” on gun control. Judging from his wish list, that word doesn’t mean what the self-avowed democratic socialist wants it to mean . . .

Sanders reckons gun owners are down with strengthening the background checks, closing the “gun show loophole” and making sure that “military weapons designed to kill people are not in the hands of civilians.” How do I join this consensus of which you speak? You know what? Never mind.

After that pronouncement, Governor O’Malley bullied his way in to attack Sanders and Clinton for their waffling on guns and went off on a tear on “combat assault weapons.” Hello? What good would a ban do given that there millions of “assault rifles” already in circulation? Would you confiscate them? “No I would not,” O’Malley finally answers. And then went …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns