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Mike Lee: “The right to bear arms is constitutionally protected, as is…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 21st

Published | Video Starts at 38:56

If you want to travel between two states or even two cities through commercial air travel, you're at a minimum going to have to show a driver's license. And yet the right to travel is constitutionally protected. The right to bear arms is constitutionally protected, as is the right to vote. So the fact that something is constitutionally protected, that doesn't mean that there are and can be no guardrails around that to make sure that you are a person who is allowed to exercise the constitutionally protected right in question. (38:56–39:01)

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Asserts that both the right to bear arms and the right to vote are constitutionally protected.

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