On Saturday, Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to respect the Second Amendment during a town hall event in New Hampshire -- saying he would not take away anyone's guns.
"I am not going to take people's guns away, and I believe in gun control myself,' he said. "But, you know, anyone who tells you that we can end the violence to our children that’s going on now by removing people’s guns, in the margin that has been left to us by this very expansive Supreme Court decision is not being truthful with you."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is referencing the landmark 2022 Bruen decision, which involved licenses related to the possession of concealed firearms in New York. The National Review called this decision "potentially the most important Second Amendment ruling in American history."
"Legally, because of the Supreme Court decision ... it makes it really impossible to do anything about it by taking people's guns," Kennedy Jr. added.
This is not the first time Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has weighed in on the Second Amendment. During a Twitter Spaces discussion with Elon Musk earlier this month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the tech billionaire, "My position on gun control is that I’m not going to take away anybody’s guns. I’m a constitutional maximalist and the issue has been settled by the Supreme Court."
"I understand personally the heartbreak of gun violence," Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued. "We have to stop school shootings… if it comes down to protecting schools like we protect airlines, we’ll do that. We also have to look at the role of psychiatric drugs... prior to the introduction of Prozac, we had almost no events like this. When I am President, we will thoroughly investigate and address the link between these drugs and school shootings."
Similarly, the 69-year-old Democrat turned to mental health to explain the rise in gun violence. He argued guns are built into rural culture, and a further 'assault' on the 'bill of rights' would lead to more distrust in our federal government. He also argued that we need to look at video games and social media. He argued that since guns were in the picture even when he went to school, Democrats are diagnosing the issue all wrong -- as they so often do. And that misdiagnosis is dividing our nation.
The problem is not with guns as such, but the increasingly unstable individual who is firing them in the year 2023.
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