Connecticut Senator Not Happy With Bernie Sanders’ View On Sandy Hook Lawsuit

[JDPriestly]

187. If you want to exercise your free speech right in Los Angeles and get a bunch of people to

march down the street, you have to buy a permit and cover the costs. That something is a fundamental right does not mean it is free of charge.

If just one or two or a small group of people exercise the right to free speech in a public area that is deemed appropriate for the exercise of free speech, then no charge.

Our fundamental rights can be regulated. Churches have to comply with the building codes and generally buy liability insurance.

Gun owners should have to do the same. That something is a fundamental right and specified in the Constitution does not mean it cannot be regulated.

If the cost of the insurance would price poor rural people from hunting (which would be a bad thing in my view) then maybe we can get some pressure from those rural people to enact gun legislation that pays for the damages guns cost us and that keeps guns out of the hands of people who should not have them.

Life is a compromise. On guns we need to work together to lower the number of gun deaths and the frequency of mass shootings in our country. Gun owners should be at the front of the crowd in demanding gun safety laws that prevent these shootings as much as possible and that make the mass shootings of human beings a thing of the past.