Issue Position: Preventing Gun Violence

Issue Position

As a United States Marine, I carried an assault rifle in Iraq. It saved my life more than once. I've seen what assault rifles can do. Nobody in America needs to own an assault rifle. I also carried two grenades every day I was in Iraq, but we've made a decision in this country that our citizens don't need to walk around carrying hand grenades. We need to do the same thing with assault weapons and other weapons of war. Nobody is allowed to drive a tank down the highway, or walk into a shopping mall with grenades--nobody should be allowed to have an assault weapon either.

It's time for commonsense gun reform. We can start by passing an assault weapons ban and background checks, not letting people who on a terrorist no fly list buy guns, and enforcing red flag laws.

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