TRANSCRIPT: Gun Control at the First Democratic Debate

By Patriot Outdoor News

Tonight marks the first debate for the Democratic primary race for president of the United States. One of the very first topics discussed was the issue of gun control, and not surprisingly every single person on the stage believed that further restrictions on the rights of American citizens is the only acceptable solution. The following is the full transcript of that section of the debate, but first a couple notes . . .

Bernie Sanders presented a somewhat pragmatic approach, and argued that gun dealers shouldn’t be held liable for crimes committed with a legally purchased firearm. Hillary Clinton immediately disagreed and nearly demanded that gun dealers be held liable for the actions of their customers. O’Malley tried to use his passage of gun control in Maryland to prove his bona fides, and pointed to the case of the blatantly frivolous lawsuit against Lucky Gunner as proof that the evil NRA has hijacked the legal system and something must be done. Chaffee basically blamed the evil NRA for all of the ills in the world and didn’t go much further, and Webb came across as the least insane by simply stating we need to keep guns out of the …Read the Rest