In the wake of last week’s violence in New York and Pittsburg, it’s not unwise to expect calls for new gun restrictions. Couple that with this administration’s published stance regarding gun rights, and we all have reason to be worried.
However, it looks like the current administration is learning from history, and they’re not salivating over gun control as rabidly as they were fifteen years ago.
In an interview with Katie Couric, Eric Holder quickly backpedaled on his prior support for a new Assault Weapons Ban, stating,
I don’t think it has and in fact, I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common-sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see in our streets and make the American people as safe as they can possibly be.
When prodded further, all the elaboration he’d give about his support for gun control was,
These are issues that we’ll have to discuss.
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