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Richard Blumenthal: “90 plus percent of the American people believe that…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal Discusses Supreme Court Reforms and Ethics on Defending Democracy Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 10:26

The whole reason that we got in the Revolutionary war was that Britain refused to recognize any rights of privacy and put soldiers in people home. And then of course, on gun violence prevention, where they struck down common sense laws, 90 plus percent of the American people believe that preventing gun violence is a good thing. They may not agree with every single law, but background checks and other common sense measures are really accepted and supported by the majority of American people. (10:26–10:33)

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Asserts that over 90% of Americans support measures to prevent gun violence.

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