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Trekking through the state on his bus tour this week, Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey offered up a playful remark on his thoughts about gun policy. “My idea of gun control is steady aim,” Toomey said Tuesday in York County.
A prominent Pennsylvania gun control group didn’t appreciate that.
CeaseFirePA hammered Toomey for the comment, which it called “disrespectful and disappointing for a candidate who seeks to represent Pennsylvania in the Senate.”
The group also noted that 22 law enforcement officers have been killed in the state over the last decade, and that 46 municipalities have passed lost or stolen handgun reporting laws in the last year-and-a-half.
“Pat Toomey’s remark show he doesn’t get it–gun violence affects us all,” CeaseFirePA executive director Joe Grace said in a statement Thursday.
“His remark is insensitive to victims of gun violence in Pennsylvania–and to family members, friends and colleagues of persons who’ve been shot and killed. Given the gun violence directed at our police officers in Pennsylvania, it also seems like Mr. Toomey isn’t paying attention to this important public safety issue. That’s not acceptable.”
Toomey’s campaign didn’t immediately comment Thursday evening.
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