American house Majority Whip Steve Scalise, saysnhe still stand behind the right to bear arms. Sxalise, who is still recovering from his wounds after a gunman opened fire on Republican members of Congress in June, told Chuck Todd in an exclusive interview for “Meet the Press” that he totally stands behind the unlimited right to bear arms.
Saying, “Our Founding Fathers believed strongly in gun rights for citizens,” Instead of passing new regulations in the wake of the Las Vegas mass shooting, which thrust the country’s lawmakers into the center of the debate over gun control, existing ones should be enforced, he said.
“Don’t try to put new laws in place that don’t fix these problems,” said Scalise, who was gravely wounded on June 14 when a shooter opened fire on the GOP’s congressional baseball team as members practiced in Virginia. “They only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to own a gun.”
When asked if he believed the right to bear arms was “unlimited,” Scalise said: “It is, it is.”
