Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Sunday that he has not yet read the background check compromise reached by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA), but argued in general that background checks have been ineffective and will not be going forward.
“To be fair, I haven’t read it and so I don’t like to comment on things I haven’t read,” Rubio said on CNN’s State of the Union. “But my position on guns is pretty clear. I believe law-abiding people in the United States have a fundamental constitutional right to bear arms and I believe criminals and dangerous people should not access to guns.”
Rubio went on to stress that the problem is not guns but violence.
“Everyone’s focused on passing these laws that have proven ineffective and will prove ineffective in the future,” Rubio said.
