Unhinged NY Democrat Threatens to do 'Whatever it takes' To Abolish Guns in America

VIA Real Clear Politics:

Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) said at a Thursday hearing on recent mass shootings that Congress would abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court if the Democratic party's proposed gun control legislation does not pass.

"You will not stop us from advancing the Protecting Our Kids Act today," Jones said. "You will not stop us from passing it in the House next week and you will not stop us there. If the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it. If the Supreme Court objects, we will expand it. And we will not rest until we have taken weapons of war out of circulation in our communities. Each and every day we will do whatever it takes to end gun violence, whatever it takes."

Read Rep. Jones' remarks at the hearing:


REP. JONES: My generation and the generations that have followed know that this epidemic of gun violence is not unstoppable, it is a choice. It is a choice that you can make differently at any time. A choice between our lives and your guns. Time after time we have given you a chance to do something. After Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after Parkland, and time after time, you have chosen your right to kill over our right to live. But your selfishness and your indifference have not killed our hope. You have transformed it. Before we believed you might do what the people overwhelmingly support and help advance common-sense gun violence legislation. Now we know it is up to us to save ourselves from you.

We did not choose this fight. We had our own dreams for our lives, the same as you did when you were kids, but we can‘t let you get away with it anymore. Enough is enough. Enough of you telling us that school shootings are a fact of life when every other country like ours has virtually ended it. Enough of you blaming mental illness and then defunding mental health care in this country. Enough of your thoughts and prayers. Enough. Enough

You will not stop us from advancing the Protecting Our Kids Act today. You will not stop us from passing it in the House next week and you will not stop us there. If the filibuster obstructs us, we will abolish it. If the Supreme Court objects, we will expand it. And we will not rest until we have taken weapons of war out of circulation in our communities. Each and every day we will do whatever it takes to end gun violence, whatever it takes.