Loads from YouTube only after you press playWe have guns too: Colion Noir on Democrats and the 2A 'but'
Key points: We guns too Colion
- Jaime West, a Democrat running for Fayette County Council's fourth district in Indiana, closed a televised candidate forum by telling voters "We have guns too."
- In the same forum she said her most unpopular decision would be firing all Republicans, and claimed the sheriff's nephew had threatened her; Sheriff Zack Jones told CBS4 he has no nephews.
- Noir argues that a Democratic candidate feeling the need to say it shows the party is anti-2A, while telling left-leaning gun owners who back the Second Amendment that they are welcome.
- His central claim: Democratic politicians say "I support the Second Amendment," follow it with a "but," and everything after the "but" is a restriction.
- As the example of what comes after the "but," he plays Beto O'Rourke's 2019 debate line, "Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47."
- This is opinion commentary built around a local news segment, and it includes a plug for Noir's own America 2A hat and shirt.
About this Drama and Gripe video
"We have guns too" was how Jaime West, a Democrat running for Fayette County Council in Indiana, closed a local candidate forum that has since gone viral. Colion Noir plays the CBS4 Indianapolis report on the clip, then argues that Democratic politicians follow "I support the Second Amendment" with a "but," and that whatever comes after it, such as Beto O'Rourke's AR-15 pledge, is the policy they actually vote for.
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firing on Republicans. I wouldn't let them. I mean, I don't even talk to them. I don't like them. >> A Democrat is running for county council in Faget County. Got one last shot to talk to voters on local TV and she closed it with we have guns, too. I believe her. What I want to know is why'd she have to say it and what word always comes right after it when the bigger politicians say it? >> Maybe […]
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