Booker: Republicans Talking About Dems ‘Confiscating’ Weapons Is ‘Fear-Mongering’

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BOOKER: "This is the thing. We are capable of doing it. Other countries have been and we’ve done it in the past. You have to set up a system. Yeah, it’s mandatory. You have to set up a system to pull them off. But this idea, this imagery that the fearmongers and demagogues try to say of somehow armed police officers showing up and confiscating weapons, that’s the fearmongering and people trying to obscure and make people forget what we have done before as a nation with machine guns, what other nations have done with assault rifles. This does not have to be what the imagery and the fearmongering showing up. We have evidence-based models of how to get this done in a peaceful way where America as a whole — and by the way, the majority of Americans believe these weapons do not belong on our streets or neighborhoods. This is not something beyond us. I’m not going to let the fear mongers and the demagogues win the day on this. We have a crisis in this country. It must end, and we must do the common sense things to get it done."