Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said on Wednesday that President Obama’s newly announced plan to reform the nation’s gun laws would not have stopped the school shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn., accusing the administration of “targeting” gun owners.
“Nothing the President is proposing would have stopped the massacre at Sandy Hook,” Rubio said in a statement. “President Obama is targeting the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens instead of seriously addressing the real underlying causes of such violence. Rolling back responsible citizens’ rights is not the proper response to tragedies committed by criminals and the mentally ill.”
Rubio argued that the real problem with gun violence lay at the feet of the mentally ill who partake in it, and that the White House should focus on instead on keeping guns out of their hands.
One of Obama’s proposals calls for more research on mental illness as it relates to gun violence.
