Talarico’s campaign checks all of the boxes on gun control wish lists, including “passing commonsense gun safety laws,” establishing universal background checks for gun sales, “rais[ing] the age to purchase semi-automatic rifles with certain military-style features like high-capacity magazines,” and “opposing legislation allowing for the permitless carry of firearms in Texas.”
At a 2020 virtual town hall event, Talarico expounded on his views of the Second Amendment. He was “proud to take steps as a lawmaker…introducing gun safety legislation myself and always supporting any gun safety bill that came onto the floor of the House” (starting at 24:16). Very few politicians, he said, “have actually read the Second Amendment because, if they did, they would know that the words ‘well regulated’ are right there in the text of the amendment itself, and so like any right we have in our Constitution it’s not unlimited and it’s not absolute… and we can put common sense restrictions and limitations on that right” (starting at 24:33). The reason, he claimed, that these “common sense” restrictions and limitations were not enacted despite broad bipartisan support was because “policymakers at the federal and state levels are beholden to the gun lobby and in particular the NRA” (starting at 25:14).
Talarico may have been a middle-school English teacher, but his reading comprehension is way off. Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Heller and McDonald and Bruen, has saved him the trouble of puzzling the Second Amendment out for himself. Far from allowing the restriction of Second Amendment rights, the adjective “well regulated” applies to “militia,” the word immediately following, and means (as the U.S. Supreme Court explained in Heller), “nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training” in the context of securing an individual right to bear arms for defensive purposes, including citizens called to the common defense.
And speaking of common sense, the reason why these “common sense” restrictions and limitations have not been enacted is that voters have communicated, in the most obvious way possible, that they don’t care for pointless bureaucracy and unconstitutional, ineffective gun laws that burden only the law-abiding.
We’ve said it before: Talarico is nothing more than Beto 2.0.
— NRA-ILA in “Hell, No!” to Beto 2.0
It’s like they clone these things in a lab. Perhaps at Zorro Ranch.
“The reason, he claimed, that these ‘common sense’ restrictions and limitations were not enacted despite broad bipartisan support was because ‘policymakers at the federal and state levels are beholden to the gun lobby and in particular the NRA’ ”
Anytime a left winger blames not getting something they want on something else you know they do not understand the subject matter and are lying. Its part of their inherent self-manufactured views of them selves as ‘always a victim’.
I tend to think that Talarico doesn’t even know what planet he is on and much less what ‘common sense’ is.
He says he is a biblical Christian, the turns around and says he hates Christianity, then turns around and says he learned his Christianity from Islamic mystics – he tried to play a shell game by trying to appeal to three different voter demographics, the Christians, the left wing christian haters, then those of Islam. Then he went after the trans demographic with the ‘there are six biological genders’ and the trans and left wing media and left wing ‘fact checkers’ went to bat for him and went into the ‘chromosome variations’ thing that left wing researchers used trying to prove there were not just male and female and they called it ‘intersex chromosome variations’. Which completely left out the fact that only two types biologically dominate in the human species to determine sex of male or female biologically and sometimes an abnormality where chromosome wise the person is either male or female biologically but may have an organ that is for or part of the opposite sex. In other words, no matter how many ‘chromosome variations’ there are for the human species, there can only be male or female biologically and no one is born without a specific biological gender and no one is born the opposite of their biological gender.
It’s wild how clearly disingenuous major Democrats are.
Why do they look like father and son? Coincidence?
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The dad’s probably used the same first cousin.
Talarico is another democrat lair. It’s required by the party.
I was going to correct your spelling then I looked at that picture again. Yeah probably gets used as somebody’s lair.
Don’t think they’re bros , I think it’s something a little closer .
G@.y gun owners will vot for Talarico. Guns are just props to them. So they can enter conservative social circles. It’s the g@.y stuff they really care about. Not gun civil rights.