Ohio Gov. John Kasich sometimes regrets allying himself with conservatives. At least, that’s how he behaves.
The failed presidential candidate scoffed at the idea of gun control when he was trying to convince voters to choose him over Donald Trump. Now that the country has been rattled by another mass shooting, a new, anti-Second Amendment Kasich has emerged.
“If you’re a strong Second Amendment person you need to slow down and take a look at reasonable things that can be done to answer these young people,” Kasich said Sunday.
“They’re absolutely right when they say that politicians have not been responding to any of this… You take a look at the Congress, and I think the Congress is totally dysfunctional. Dana, I have never seen anything like it.”
Kasich not only supports gun control now, he blames Washington for not enacting new policies sooner.
“This is a great opportunity for commonsense steps that can be taken just in the area of background checks,” he said.
“There should be no ability to do a casual sale without somebody having to find out who they’re selling the gun to and what is involved…. The president should be for that.”
A lot of Americans, conservatives included, support strengthening the background check system. But Kasich takes it even further.
“I was talking to a friend of mine this morning, he’s a big collector. I said, ‘If all of the sudden, you couldn’t buy an AR-15, what would you lose?’” Kasich questioned.
“Would you feel as though your Second Amendment rights would be eroded because you couldn’t buy a God-darn AR-15?… There are the things that have to be looked at. And action has to happen before – and, look, you’re never going to fix all of this, but commonsense gun laws make sense.”
Republicans will never get behind a measure banning AR-15’s and most Americans don’t want them to. As Kasich himself used to say, the problem isn’t the rifle, the problem is the deranged madmen who decide to commit mass murder.
Kasich is trying to appeal to a broader base. His constituents in Ohio certainly don’t support an assault rifle ban, so why does he?
(Source: Daily Mail)