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Bob Casey Jr.: “It got done because of your generation. Mostly after…”

Featuring: Bob Casey Jr., Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

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United States Senators Bob Casey and Dick Durbin Answering Question from Public

Published | Video Starts at 17:42

It's this gun bill we did last summer. A bipartisan bill that no one, no one on the planet predicted get done. No one. And It got done because of your generation. Mostly after Parkland just demanding that we do something that is measurable and significant. And I think we did it. There's more to do. Obviously there's nowhere near the work that should be done on background checks and on banning military style weapons and all that assault weapons. (17:42–17:55)

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Asserts that the passage of the gun bill was largely due to the activism of the younger generation following the Parkland shooting.

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