In his own words: Senator Murphy on guns, democracy, and 2024

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Many Americans who feel strongly about the Second Amendment believe that any laws restricting guns are unconstitutional.
57% : Our Founding Fathers were very comfortable with the regulation of guns, because lots of regulation of firearms existed at the beginning of America.
57% : I'm 100% confident that the Founding Fathers would be rolling over in their graves to learn that people today believe the Second Amendment prohibits any and all regulation of firearms.
49% : There are a lot of people who have an absolutist view of the Second Amendment.
49% : But our Founding Fathers didn't have an absolutist view of the Second Amendment.
48% : And, you know, it may be that there are five members of the Supreme Court who have an absolutist view of the Second Amendment.
46% : All the regulation that I think is common sense today was common sense to the Founding Fathers who wrote the Second Amendment.

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