With increasing calls for stronger gun safety legislation being heard across the country, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) said Wednesday that the Second Amendment to the Constitution is absolute and new laws can’t be enacted because “we’re not a democracy.”
Boebert’s remarks came in response to comments made by Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who said at a meeting of the teacher’s union:
“Today, we renew our call for common sense gun safety legislation, including a ban on assault weapons. This is an epidemic.
“It’s an epidemic that our great nation must solve. And how many lives will be shattered before we have the courage to do what Scotland did, what Australia did, what New Zealand did, what other great democracies do? We must solve this epidemic, and that’s up to us.”
Scotland, Australia, and New Zealand all banned guns in the wake of mass shootings.
That led right-wing host Charlie Kirk to tell Boebert that what Weingarten was proposing is an appeal of the Second Amendment. Boebert agreed, noting:
“And, you know, maybe one of the things that we need to address with the Democrat party is, you played a clip from the teachers union with Randi there talking Maybe one thing we need to address is we’re not a democracy! So quit with that!
“Maybe that’s where you’re getting it wrong,. It’s saying that we are a democracy. We are a constitutional republic.”
Boebert then added this bit of dreck:
“And that is something that needs to be taught in our schools, not this woke critical race theory on how to hate our country and hate your fellow classmates and community members because of the color of their skin. Maybe teach a little honor and respect for our history and the correct history, rather than all this woke nonsense that produces the Ilhan Omars of the world.”
Of course, if Lauren had bothered to actually pay attention in the GED classes she struggled so mightily with, she’d know that the United States is a representative democracy.
Here’s the video of Boebert’s clueless rant:
One reply on “Lauren Boebert Says The Second Amendment Is Absolute Because ‘We’re Not A Democracy!’”
The Second Amendment was so that “well-regulated” government militias would have muskets. It took the most corrupt sociopaths possible to pervert it to mean giving every psychopath easy access to machine guns to massacre large numbers of innocent people quickly.
Once again, until voters FINALLY start showing up at EVERY election to vote against the corrupt NRA lapdog candidates, the daily massacres will continue to increase.