Host Joe Scarborough approached the subject by talking about how he and Manchin came from different backgrounds — one a Republican and the other a Democrat — yet they found common ground in “[talking] about the need for background checks” and about how they “disagreed with the NRA” post-Sandy Hook.
Scarborough said to Manchin: “You caught a lot of flack in your district and in your state for [pushing expanded background checks]. Are you going to campaign supporting background checks in [the future]?”
Manchin replied:
It made sense. For me to dodge, it would have been easy to just keep quiet on that coming from a gun cultural state and not saying a word and getting the wrath of anybody. But the bottom line is, it made sense. Treat me, as a gun person that I am, treat me as a law-abiding citizen. Don’t look at me that I’ve committed a crime just because I own a gun and like to go shooting and hunting. On the other hand, I’m going to make good gun sense decisions. I’m not going to sell to strangers. And if I go to a gun show or on the internet, I want to know who that person is and vice versa. That still makes sense. It made sense [in 2013], it makes sense now.There’s only one problem: Manchin’s gun control push did not make sense in 2013 nor does not make sense now.
It did not make sense in 2013 because background checks weren’t even part of the equation in Adam Lanza’s heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary — Lanza stole his guns.
That’s why Manchin admitted the very gun control legislation he was pushing in response to the Sandy Hook attack would not have stopped Lanza from carrying out his slaughter in the first place. Manchin made this admission a mere three days before his bill was officially rejected by his Senate colleagues.
Read the rest @ http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/04/21/manchin-gun-control-made-sense-in-2013-and-it-makes-sense-now/
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