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After a mass shooting in New Zealand in March, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) remarked on Twitter that it had taken the Kiwis "less than a week to ban military-style weapons." He noted that it had been 405 days since the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., and 2,294 days since the one in Newtown, Conn. I couldn't help myself and responded on Twitter that it had taken 85 days after the Newtown shooting for Sanders to answer my questions about whether he would support the assault weapons ban proposed at the time by president Barack Obama. I quoted from an interview he gave me then. "If you passed the strongest gun control legislation tomorrow, I don't think it will have a profound effect on the tragedies we have seen," he'd told me in March 2013.
By Paul Heintz
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Dec 25, 2019 |
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