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KENNEDY JR.: "I am — I'm not going to take people’s guns away. And I believe in gun control myself, but I — you know, anybody who tells you that we are going to end violence to our children that’s going on now by removing people’s guns, at the margin that has been left to us with that very expansive Supreme Court decision, is not being truthful with you. So, you know, I think just legally, because of the of the Supreme Court decision, because the expansive vision of view that the Supreme Court has taken on the Second Amendment, that makes it really impossible to actually do anything about it in terms of limiting people’s guns. I also want to say this. You know, I have spent a lot of might life in rural communities in this country, and there is a gun culture in those communities that is closely tied to people’s identities. And so those people that — a large group of Americans see it as almost an existential threat when people in my political party and people like myself are saying that we’re going to take your guns away. And it hasn’t worked. It has polarized our country more and it’s made people dig in more. And I’m trying to end the polarization in our country. And so I think that — and particularly in this point in history, in the last three years in this country, we’ve seen an all-out assault on our Bill of Rights.“