Republican Sen. John Kennedy appeared in a video posted by the National Rifle Association stressing the importance of love but also the importance of being armed “just in case.”
“I believe that love is the answer, but you ought to own a handgun just in case,” Kennedy says while cleaning a handgun with a cloth in the video posted Monday to the NRA’s Instagram.
The Louisiana Republican has been a staunch supporter of gun rights and the Second Amendment, and earlier this year, he rejected calls for more gun control and instead said the country needs more “idiot control.”
“These killings were terrible. They were horrible,” Kennedy said in response to a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, that left 10 people dead. “ I’m reminded, though, that, you know, America is a big country. We’re free, and one of the prices we pay for that freedom is that you’re always going to have some people who abuse it. Freedom is risk.”
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Kennedy continued: “What we have got to concentrate on is how to control that risk. You’re not going to stop the killings until you stop the killers. But you don’t stop drunk drivers by getting rid of all sober drivers, which is what many of my Democratic friends want to do with respect to the Second Amendment.”
