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Paul Junge: “We have laws on the books.”

Featuring: Paul Junge, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Michigan, District 8

2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge

Published October 4, 2020 | Video Starts at 14:41

And I know I've talked with folks on other occasions that when we want to talk about violent crime, the notion that we need more laws to control access to firearms is kind of coming at it totally ineffective. We have laws on the books. We have, you know, Bob used to be the sheriff here. He would you know, make a case, and then the prosecutors would finish that case against a violent criminal, send them to prison. (14:41–14:43)

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Asserts that existing laws are sufficient to control access to firearms.

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“The declaration of Independence talks about these being God given rights, among them being life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
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“We establish a government to protect and preserve those rights and those liberties.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 01:35-01:42
“The constitution puts limits on the government.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 02:29-02:33
“We see in perhaps Governor Whitlow, is a desire to abuse those powers and grab too much.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 02:35-02:41
“You have a right to keep and bear arms.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 03:20-03:23
“Bob's already successfully represented folks both as an elected sheriff and in his job as a county commissioner.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 05:52-06:00
“If he gets to the state legislature, if I get to Washington, you know, I think both of us will work hard.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 05:59-06:05
“To pass legislation, whether it's to create further guarantees for our God given rights, as Micah was talking about, or to repeal…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 06:05-06:15
“At the federal level, we might be able to say, hey, you don't get to do that.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 06:21-06:26
“We can use our platform to speak about the virtues of gun ownership.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 06:33-06:39
“People possessing arms can not just defend their homes, but if they're out, they can stop crimes that occur.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 06:46-06:54
“They [Antifa] want to tear everything that we've got down.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 06:51-19:34
“There’s a lot of problems with the restrictions we’re seeing around the coronavirus.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 09:40-09:46
“One of them [problems with the restrictions] is it has limited gatherings of people.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 09:45-09:50
“If you're representing a couple hundred thousand people, as a practical matter, you can't on a regular basis be talking to them all the…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 10:14-10:23
“It's almost worse than that. You'll get remote learning and the teacher thinks they see a nerf gun or something in the background to get the…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 11:13-11:21
“So many of the portrayals you see in the media and the portrayals from these well funded groups that you've been talking about portray the…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 13:23-13:37
“The overwhelming majority, what are we going to say? It's 98, 99% or more of people who own firearms, you know, they're decent, law abiding…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 13:45-13:55
“We've got too many systems now that are letting [violent criminals] out early so they can go out and commit those violent crimes again.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 14:52-14:59
“There's been some terrible legislation from Elissa Slotkin to release violent criminals.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 15:57-16:03
“Antifa, they are antithetical to everything I think good Americans should stand for.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 19:04-19:12
“Alyssa Slotkin enables Nancy Pelosi to be speaker.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 20:03-20:08
“Nancy Pelosi says people will do what people will do. That's shocking. That's enabling mob violence.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 20:22-20:31
“We have to set an example of no, no, no, guaranteeing people's constitutional rights, establishing safe and secure communities, that's got…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 20:37-20:48
“The overwhelming majority of the men and women that put on a uniform and risk their lives every day to protect us are good people.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 23:51-24:00
“When mayors or governors don't defend law enforcement officers who have a tough job but instead quickly judge them as being in the wrong…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 24:23-24:34
“If we want safe, insecure communities where people's lives, property rights are protected, we've got to have political leadership that…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 24:58-25:22
“One of our major parties, the Democratic Party, had a four-day national convention, and they never once spoke about the urban unrest, the…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 27:54-28:08
“The Republican Party is standing up and saying, look, we have to enforce our laws.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 28:09-28:16
“We have to back up our law enforcement to have safe and secure communities.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 28:15-28:20
“I oppose red flag laws. They're unconstitutional, typically on at least two grounds. One, they violate our Second Amendment rights, but they…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 30:41-30:50
“I oppose red flag laws, and if they come up in the Congress, I will oppose them.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 31:41-31:46
“The good work of law enforcement, using their instincts and using their training, they typically do have the tools.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 34:38-34:45
“We don't have the political leadership that will do it, or we have political leadership that undermines and tries to handcuff... law…”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 35:00-35:18
“I think the tools and the laws are there.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 35:20-35:24
“As a future legislator, I'll always listen to new potential proposals if there's a gap that we need to fill to protect people.”
2A Townhall with Bob Bezotte and Paul Junge | Uploaded October 4, 2020 | 35:23-35:31
“I think we have the tools that we need.”
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