New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker has stated that he is entirely not hopeful that any major gun control laws will end up being passed due to the recent mass shootings that have been carried out in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.
While taking part in an interview on a segment of “Meet the Press” from NBC this past Sunday, Booker claimed that he would be in support of any change that could be actually agreed on at a federal level but was “under no illusion” that any such substantive revisions would be made at all until a larger and more persistent national movement came about and many pro-gun politicians were kicked out of office.
“Whatever we can get done, if it saves a life it’s worth doing, and so my colleagues who are entering the bipartisan talks, I fully support that,” claimed Booker. “But I’m under no illusion that we are going to do the things that need to be done, that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly support, Republican and Democrat, that can create significant safety.”
“I return again and again, to how change is made in America,” he went on.
Booker highlighted one particular example from the 1963 bombing of a church that was carried out in Birmingham, Alabama in which a group of four young girls were killed in what has since been called one of the most pivotal moments for the entirety of the civil rights movement.
“The nation rallied, movement continued until we demanded change, and it was made,” exclaimed Booker. “And people who did not make the change…paid at the polls. Until that happens, we are going to see at best incremental change. But as far as a federal level, I’m not that hopeful.”
“This is not a one-move solution,” Booker went on to say. “There must be many things done…But I am sorry. We are at a point in this nation where we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement… Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns, and money, and power, until that redemptive love of our children turns into action, then nothing is gonna change.”