Arizona Senator Jeff Flake was on Meet the Press whining about all that burdensome paperwork that so many poor, potential murderers would have to complete in order to buy a deadly weapon.
Because, you know, answering five minutes and thirty-six seconds worth of questions is just. Too. Inconvenient.
Slaughtering a bunch of innocent children on the other hand? No imposition at all.
Note to gun buyers: If you can lift a firearm, you can lift a pencil or stand at a counter and withstand all that strenuous interrogation that takes all of FIVE MINUTES AND THIRTY-SIX SECONDS:
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Chuck Todd:
Why shouldn't law -- We have to go through TSA checkpoints, law abiding citizens have to do that. What's wrong with law abiding gun owners-- What do they have to hide? What's wrong with going through an expanded background check?
Jeff Flake:
The paperwork requirements alone would be significant.
All that paperwork! Groan-n-n. What could possibly be worth all that exertion?!
Oh yeah:
Earth to Flake: It was the Sandy Hook deaths that were a "bridge too far." Clear? Clear.
Here is the entire 1:14 long segment:
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