House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) strongly pushed back against a Fox News host over gun death statistics and blasted Democrats for rushing to push gun control.
Fox News anchor John Roberts interviewed Scalise on Sunday concerning gun violence. Roberts seemed to be in favor of stricter gun control citing recent shootings and measures that would impact the Second Amendment.
He asked Scalise what the best way forward would be concerning guns.
“Well, John, the best way forward is first of all, when you have a shooting, instead of sitting down and going okay, what is really causing this?” Scalise said. “Why do we see these happening more and more in the last few years, it immediately becomes a debate about taking away guns and you see Democrats quickly run in the day of the shooting.”
(Video Credit: Fox News)
Scalise took strong issue with President Joe Biden’s calls for more gun control.
“Why don’t we look and see if we can find some telltale signs so that there can be interventions?” he asked, noting that individuals “every day in America” use guns to defend themselves.
Roberts claimed during the interview that the US far outleads the rest of the world in gun deaths, “In terms of the developed world, the United States far and away leads every other nation … in terms of gun violence. The U.S. is way out in front with four deaths per 100,000 people. The next closest nation is Cyprus, way behind at just below .7 deaths per 100,000 people. What do you think is responsible for that discrepancy?”
“In the last couple of years you’ve seen this crazy defund the police movement,” Scalise responded. “But you’ve also seen a movement that’s been going on for a few years in big cities where the DAs aren’t even prosecuting criminals until it is a shooting or a violent crime. And they’re letting criminals back out on the street. And then inevitably what you see is higher rates of crime.”
Sigh … Same thing every time. It’s the gun’s fault. The gun grew legs,stood up by itself and shot up a bunch of people. Take legal firearms away from citizens and only the government and criminals will have them.
— Deth Jones (@DethJones) June 6, 2022
“Instead of talking about Democrats always wanting to take away the rights of gun owners, law-abiding citizens, especially, why don’t we talk about the root causes of these problems?” he asserted. “And there is some common ground to be found there, John.”
Roberts then quoted a Quinnipiac poll from 2021 that ostensibly shows data that indicates the majority of Americans support stricter measures, such as required background checks and red flag laws.
“You and other Republicans have views about background checks and red flag laws that seem to run counter to what public sentiment is,” the Fox News anchor asserted. “So are the views that you and your colleagues hold out of step with where the nation is?”
“Under the guise of red flag, they take away due process, where they literally can come into your house and take away your gun without you even knowing that there was some kind of proceeding where somebody said, ‘Oh, I think that guy might be a threat,'” Scalise commented. “So now somebody can go and take away your Constitutional right. I don’t think people would agree with that.”
Steve Scalise: "Under the guise of a red flag, they take away due process where they literally can come into your house and take away your gun without you even knowing that there was some kind of proceeding where somebody said “oh, I think that guy might be a threat.”
— CJ4America (@GrammyC4Zone) June 5, 2022
“Congressman, if that had happened in the case of the Buffalo shooter, 10 people would be alive today,” Roberts accusingly stated.
“Again, due process is a Constitutional right,” Scalise insisted.
“The immediate visceral reaction of Democrats in Washington is to go after the rights of gun owners in America, the law-abiding citizens who were using guns to defend themselves,” he charged.
“If you look at what happened in those cities, you see a lot of the things with the defund the police movement, with letting people out no cash bail, where they’re making it easier for people to commit crimes, look at the smash and grab crimes,” he pointed out. “Do you think it’s going to end there if they think they can get away with a crime?”
“They’re not going to be charged, they will go on to commit more crimes and worse crimes. It’s happened in other places. Let’s get back to regular policing,” Scalise concluded.
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