Scott Taylor vs. Seth Moulton: ‘Vast Majority’ of Gun Violence Is in Cities with ‘Tight Restrictions’ on Guns

RADDATZ: You feel entirely differently.

REP. SCOTT TAYLOR, (R) VIRGINIA: Sure.

And let me say it’s great to be with you, it’s great to be with Seth as well, too. And, look, he like most other folks in congress, both Dems and Republicans, care very deeply about this country. They want to protect the constitution. They want to protect their people. I understand that for sure.

But at the same time, you know when you have a situation that happened, which was tragic, traumatic, and everyone feels the same emotion, they do. But it’s up to leaders like us to have — to see clarity through the emotional chaos and understand that it is a high, very high bar, to be able to take some folks’ rights away to try to enact policies that may take their rights away, but not really do anything.

So, when you look at gun violence in America, and when you look at deaths, when you look at like 30,000 some thousand gun — the overwhelming majority of them are suicides. The overwhelming majority of them use handguns, right. When you look at some of the populations that are more predisposed, I guess, if you will, to gun violence — there’s domestic disputes, there’s young men in certain areas, when you do look at some of the cities. When you look at the numbers of them, the vast majority of gun violence are in a few cities. And all have tight restrictions on guns.

You can’t have a gun in D.C., but there’s still gun violence.