The three leading Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidates appeared in Philadelphia on Monday to answer questions about gun-violence prevention in a city experiencing a shootings crisis that refuses to abate.
Each have also said they’d vote for a ban on assault weapons. Lamb voted against such a ban in 2018, saying at the time that strengthening background checks was more pressing. But he has since said he’d back a ban.akin to Joe Biden, said Monday that he’s the person who can “bridge the divide on this issue.” He said he owns a gun, given to him by his now-father-in-law when he proposed to his daughter, because that’s “kinda how it happens in Pennsylvania.
“I really am not someone with an agenda to come and take their firearms away,” he said, “but someone who is trying to promote being responsible.” Kenyatta tried to position himself as the only candidate with relevant lived experience. He repeatedly invoked his perspective as a Black man who grew up in North Philadelphia, saying “the difference is, when I go home tonight, I might have another shooting on my block.”
“This is not just something to talk about,” he said. “It’s something that when this campaign is over, when this auditorium is empty, myself and my family and the people in my community, we’re still going to be thinking about this.”
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