After the National Rifle Association urged legislators to oppose the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act that the House approved last week, Amy Klobuchar said the organization had shown its true colors. The Minnesota senator, who is seeking the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, claimed the NRA’s position “shows where they are when it comes to safety and when it comes to protecting women.”
The NRA, in other words, does not care about violence against women, or at least it does not care enough to accept the new gun control provisions in the House version of the bill. This blithe dismissal of the NRA’s legitimate complaints about those provisions, Jacob Sullum says, makes Klobuchar sound like an authoritarian demagogue who equates concern about civil liberties with indifference to crime. Sullum says the debate about the bill shows that Democrats see eye to eye with the president when it comes to sacrificing constitutional rights in the name of public safety.
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