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In a separate exchange, a man in the crowd asked Sanders about his stance on the Second Amendment.
"I support it," the Vermont senator said, before noting its limitations.
"I believe it is not an absolute right," he said. "I do not believe you have the right to have a grenade launcher in your backyard and I think most people understand that."
Sanders said most people agree that gun ownership is not inherently bad, but that some stricter regulations are needed. Specifically, he called for closing the so-called "gun show loophole" and strengthening criminal background checks. |
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| Count Sanders out. He agrees with Obama, Feinstein, and Schumer. I support the 2nd Amendment but: -------------------------------- |
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| We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest. We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again. Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time. The first problem is to slow down production and sales. Next is to get registration. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal. — Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53 |
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