Durbin pays tribute to victims of Mercy Hospital shooting, then pleads for gun control

By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News

(WASHINGTON) This morning, Senator Durbin paid tribute to the victims of the Mercy Hospital mass shooting and then pleaded for gun control.

On the floor of the senate, Durbin stood with an array of photos of the Mercy Hospital victims and called for a “clear line” to be drawn between those who use weapons for crime and those for sport.

“I heard recently there are 11 million AR-15s – a military style weapon -​ that are circulating in the United States of America. Does anyone in their wildest imagination think that’s what the founding fathers had in mind when they talked about the right to bear arms? That people would have these deadly militay weapons. That they’d be used so often.”

An AR-15 was NOT used at the Mercy mass shooting and What the second amendment says is that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

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