https://www.vogue.com/article/steve-scalise-gunned-down-saved-lesbian-cop-still-pro-gun-anti-lgbt
Despite Being Gunned Down at Baseball Practice and Saved by a Lesbian Cop, Rep. Steve Scalise Is Still Pro-Gun and Anti-LGBTQ
MICHELLE RUIZ
October 9, 2017
In June, Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise was shot at a congressional baseball practice and saved, in part, by Capitol Police officer Crystal Griner, who is a lesbian in a same-sex marriage. But despite his own harrowing experience—Scalise is still using walkers after suffering a shattered femur and serious damage to his hip and pelvis—the conservative Republican congressman remains pro-gun and anti-LGBTQ.
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Scalise made clear that neither being shot himself nor the recent Las Vegas mass shooting could change his mind about gun rights. “Don’t try to put new laws in place that don’t fix these problems,” Scalise, the House majority whip, said. “They only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to own a gun.” Scalise went on to cite the Founding Fathers’ strong belief in the right to bear arms (curiously, though, no mention of the Third Amendment and their related belief that citizens should not have to quarter soldiers), and when asked by host Chuck Todd if the Second Amendment should be seen as “unlimited,” Scalise nodded: “It is.”
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