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Related: About this forumGillibrand's tearful plea to Bernie: Give up your guns
Gillibrand's tearful plea to Bernie: Give up your gunsNew York's junior senator, in an interview for POLITICO's 'Off Message' podcast, says that Sanders lacks the 'sensitivity' to understand how gun violence devastates families.
By GLENN THRUSH 04/18/16 05:27 AM EDT
His option? Change positions. Thats what Kirsten Gillibrand, a proud, passionate turncoat on guns, urges her Senate colleague from Vermont to do for the sake of his politics and, you know, his immortal soul.
I was somebody who was not as focused on this, as I should have been, as a House member. Meeting these families devastated me, broke my heart, said Gillibrand, when I suggested she switched positions as a matter of political expediency in a deep-blue state where most Democrats favor stringent gun restrictions.
Gillibrand, a 49-year-old mother of two young sons not prone to public expressions of emotion, began to cry in mid-sentence. Its so crippling I mean, I sat down with a mother last week in Brooklyn, and she lost her 4-year-old baby she took her kid to a park, she said. Every mom takes their kid to a park. And she took her kid to a park and the kid was killed, a baby, a 4-year-old doesnt have the sensitivity he needs to the horror that is happening in these families. I just don't think he's fully getting how horrible it is for these families.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/bernie-sanders-kirsten-gillibrand-off-message-222070
otohara
(24,135 posts)mass shooting with histories of supporting guns over people?
Only one of the people running has the sensitivity to deal with the issue of guns and the pain they cause.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)2naSalit
(86,646 posts)Koinos
(2,792 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Its terrible!
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)all american girl
(1,788 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)President Obama did? He is so into the NRA influence he totally overlooks people, when he talks about politicians being bought by corporations he is talking from his own experience.
SunSeeker
(51,569 posts)If that means having to vote against the Brady Bill to get into Congress, he was fine with. If that means voting for the PLCAA that blocks victim's lawsuits, he did it. Playing footsies with the NRA kept them from running attack ads against him and allowed him to stay in Congress. Indeed, the NRA ran attack ads against his pro-gun control GOP opponent --that's how Sanders initially got into Congress.
It's all part of Sanderss "I know better than you, I'm doing this for your own good" ignorant and arrogant rationalization.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I see he now says Sandy Hook parents really can sue, too bad he voted against their ability to do so.
Thise are some arrogant hollow words, mr sanders