Posted May 10, 2019 10:00 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Cory Booker thinks it would be a hell of an idea to require Americans to get government permission prior to exercising constitutional rights. Well, maybe not all rights, just second-class rights like the right to keep and bear arms. Those rights don’t really matter to someone like Booker.

On Thursday, I wrote about how few Democrats would dismiss Booker’s scheme outright.

Among those asked about it included a couple of presidential candidates. However, one candidate for the Democrat’s nomination has come out opposing the measure, believe it or not.

They’re both highlighting their ideas to curb gun violence as they run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

But Beto O’Rourke says that Sen. Cory Booker’s new proposal to mandate the federal licensing of all gun owners goes too far.

Asked by Fox News this week if he agreed with the U.S. senator from New Jersey, O’Rourke answered, “I don’t know that we need to take the additional step of licensing every single firearm to every single owner. I think that may be too far.”

The former three-term congressman from El Paso, Texas – who’s a proponent of universal background checks for gun sales, an assault weapons ban, and so-called “red-flag” laws …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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