Stacey Abrams: ‘We Have Had a Ban on Assault Weapons Before’ and ‘We Should Do It Again’

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ABRAMS: "We have had a ban on assault weapons before the United States, and I think that we should do it again. I think there has to be a conversation about how it’s accomplished because we have to recognize that this is a national conversation, but I do want to push back on any notion that I believe that the Second Amendment is not the law of the land. I support the Second Amendment. We buy my father rifles every Christmas and a gun cabinet was his gift a couple of years ago. It is possible to believe in responsible gun ownership and to believe that there should be regulations on that. Anthony Scalia said that. And we have to believe as a nation that when our communities is vulnerable, when you can’t go into a synagogue or a church or a school or a movie theater without fear for your life, there is something wrong with our system of gun ownership and we have to fix it."