Cory Booker is known for his hyperbolic statements, Save Jerseyans, but comparing gun control to the civil rights movement signals a new low for New Jersey’s junior senator.
“I’m under no illusion that we’re going to do the things that need to be done, that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly support, Republican and Democrat, that can create significant safety,” Booker said on Sunday’s edition of the ‘Meet The Press’ on NBC. “I return again and again to how change has been made in America. When our children died, for example, a bombing in Birmingham, when four little girls died, the nation rallied. Movement continued until we demanded change and it was made. And those people who did not make the change, the civil rights movement, suffrage movement, paid at the polls.”
“Until that happens, we are going to see, at best, incremental change, but as far as a federal level, I’m not that hopeful,” Booker added.
And he was just getting warmed up, folks.
“The kids from Parkland, Gabby Giffords’s organization, Moms Demand Action, they have changed dozens and dozens of laws all around this country, state after state, that is making a difference,” Booker continued. “That movement is growing. And I say it’s like judging the 1950s civil rights movement as not great” since it took another decade to pass actual legislation.
Curtailing constitutional rights, of course, has NOTHING in common with the civil rights movement’s core goal of EXPANDING access to constitutional rights. I also don’t recall hearing Cory decry the slaughter of young black men and women in cities like Chicago where they are gunned down every week. He’s only interested in discussing deaths that fit his narrative, and the only “solutions” he’s interested in are ones that he can’t be honest about. I don’t think some of history’s great civil rights leaders would be all too impressed by his presentation, folks. Just a hunch.
Remember: Cory Booker is the same jackass who compared pro-abortion activists to D-Day veterans.
