On Sunday, Republican New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu blasted Democrats for using mass shootings as “political fodder” to pass strict gun laws. He told reporters that Democrats need to to look at the deeper cause of the tragedies which commonly occur in our country. Sununu mentioned the city of Chicago as a place with restrictive gun laws but also record high crime and violence. “I’m the governor of one of the safest states in the country,” he told NBC. New Hampshire has extremely loose Second Amendment laws and the Governor boasted that his state works to “harden schools, we deal with mental health, especially in kids. We go after the core of the issue, instead of saying, ‘Well, we should just pass more laws.’”
“And if that were that easy, people would do it, but it’s not. If it were that easy, even Democrats would do it. They didn’t. So stop trying to take … these human tragedies and … make political fodder out of them. It’s a real losing effort, I think, on the Democrats’ part,” he continued.
Sununu also asked why Democrats have not passed more gun laws in recent years if they truly believed that would stop mass shooting.
“Yes, look, those are absolute tragedies. And unfortunately, they’re happening more often than we’d like to see. The mass shootings are real, they’re happening at an increased rate. But if the idea is, ‘Well, we should just pass more laws.’ If that was the answer, then why didn’t Democrats when they ran the House, they controlled the Senate, they controlled the presidency over the last two years, why didn’t they do anything?”
The New Hampshire governor joins the likes of Mike Pence and Donald Trump who have recently come up out with plans to stop mass shooting that don’t involve stripping away the Second Amendment. Sununu has been rumored to be considering a possible presidential run in 2024 but has not made an official announcement.
