PA Bill Number: SB1198
Title: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and ...
Description: In plants and plant products, providing for plant and pollinator protection; conferring powers and duties on the Department of Agriculture and .. ...
Last Action: Referred to AGRICULTURE AND RURAL AFFAIRS
Last Action Date: May 17, 2024
Democratic Platform Committee Member: No One Should Have a Gun :: 06/09/2016
During a meeting of the Democratic party's platform drafting committee Wednesday, committee member and businesswoman Bonnie Schaefer said that no one should be able to own a gun.
"I really don't personally think anyone should have a gun," Schaefer said after testimony by Lucia McBath, a spokeswoman for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. "That's just my own philosophy."
Schaefer, an executive appointed to the committee by Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, said that keeping guns from "mentally ill people and criminals" was not enough.
"Nothing is ever solved when you have a gun in your hand, except the worst possible scenario," she said.
In response, McBath said that keeping Americans from guns was not realistic, and called instead for gun reforms that did not "infringe" upon the Second Amendment.
"Of course we know that taking all the guns off the streets is literally impossible. And we do know that there are a lot of law-abiding gun owners, gun enthusiasts and hunters, and those definitely are not the ones we're concerned about," McBath said. "What we have to do is with existing legislation … we have to enact some commonsense measures that do not infringe upon an individual's Second Amendment rights."
McBath is the mother of Jordan Davis, a teenager who was killed in a gun crime at a Jacksonville, Florida gas station in 2012. The shooter, Michael Dunn, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2014.
