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Brian Higgins: I understand the Second Amendment, but the Framers of the Constitution could never have anticipated the kind of hell…

On the recordSeptember 7, 2016
I understand the Second Amendment, but the Framers of the Constitution could never have anticipated the kind of hell that was inflicted on innocent people in Orlando, in Newtown, in these other places where we have had gun violence.
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Brian Higgins
Democratic · New York

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Higgins argues that the Second Amendment does not account for modern gun violence.

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