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Tim Kaine: “So the organization in Virginia that makes this argument about the Second Amendment--I think we can clearly demonstrate…”

On the recordJune 15, 2016
So the organization in Virginia that makes this argument about the Second Amendment--I think we can clearly demonstrate it is specious. The Second Amendment is critically important. We all take an oath to uphold it, and we do uphold it, but there is nothing inconsistent with the Second Amendment in terms of the provisions you are talking about on the floor. Let me ask you this. Here is an argument they make, and I hear them make this all the time: What these guys who are advocating these propositions want to do is they want to take away all of your guns. You were in the House a while before I got here. To your recollection, has there ever been, in your time here, a proposal that has been put in place in Congress to take away the guns of American citizens?
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia
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Jun 15, 2016

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