Rep. Jim Clyburn on Gun Reform: We Have To Do What’s Necessary ‘To Keep These Guns Out of the Hands of People Who Should Not Have Them’

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CLYBURN: "It tells me all I need to know. And that is, just because it's legal does not make it the right thing. I tell people all the time, the institution of slavery was legal, but it was not right. Just because they purchased these weapons legally does not mean that's what the law ought to be. We need to change these laws. Unfortunately, I'm going to be here in my district on Wednesday speaking at the funeral service of one of those young football players from the University of Virginia who died at the hands of the weapon that was, from all indications, legally purchased. That's not the problem. Chesapeake, Virginia, that gun was purchased legally the morning of the event. We have to visit these laws and do what's necessary to keep these guns out of the hands of people who should not have them. And that is what we need to do in this lame-duck session, and in a bipartisan way. Let's protect the American people from demented people and make sure that we put some safety and security in peoples when they're shopping, when you're sitting in churches."