Katie Porter: “oh, nonsense. Strong law enforcement and stiff penalties and reasonable gun control measures are not alternatives. We…”

“oh, nonsense. Strong law enforcement and stiff penalties and reasonable gun control measures are not alternatives. We can and we should do both of them. The NRA began losing the American people when it failed to follow most law enforcement officers who support Brady and a ban on certain assault weapons. Many NRA members are not absolutists. They realize that the Supreme Court never interpreted the constitution to say that people may own and use any weapon they want in our country. They realize that with rights in our free society go responsibilities, responsibilities to the rest of society. No one wants to take guns from law abiding citizens who use them for sport or hunting purposes or for protection. But it is time the NRA should respect and be responsible to the 75 to 80 percent of the American people who say that reasonable gun control laws are not too much to ask.”