Pete Sessions: “Well, most nominees have not had a record on it, but it is interesting, and perhaps noteworthy, that President Obama…”

“Well, most nominees have not had a record on it, but it is interesting, and perhaps noteworthy, that President Obama, who himself has not been a strong supporter of the second amendment rights, and many of his supporters and Cabinet members are openly hostile to it, the two nominees for the Supreme Court he has submitted, Justice Sotomayor and Kagan, have had records that indicate a hostility to it. Even though Judge Sotomayor, in her testimony, indicated she considered this settled law--the Heller decision--her decision less than a year later in the Chicago McDonald case, on a similar but somewhat different issue, was not consistent with the belief that the Supreme Court had settled the question in Heller. So this was a troubling thing. I think the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, has argued very vociferously to restrict gun rights. This is the top law enforcement officer in the country. I do believe this is a matter of some concern, in fact, that we may be moving into a period in which the government, the big city in Washington, the elites who control this, who come out of an environment where they are not comfortable with guns, are oblivious and insensitive to the right that I believe was critical to our Founders in ratifying the Constitution.”