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Dave Yost: “If a city law could take care of gun violence, Chicago would…”

Featuring: Dave Yost, Republican | Attorney General of Ohio

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Interview with Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost

Published | Video Starts at 06:28

We can't pass laws ourselves because of what's happening in Columbus, and we can't investigate as far as we want to because of the limits we have. So at the outset, I would say If a city law could take care of gun violence, Chicago would be the safest city in the country. They've got draconian gun laws there, and they've been to the Supreme Court over them. Gun laws are not the solution. The solution is enforcing the law against people who are not exercising second Amendment right. (06:28–06:36)

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Asserts that city laws alone cannot solve gun violence, using Chicago as an example.

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