Democrat Scranton, PA, Mayor Paige Cognetti is hoping to flip a red congressional seat blue by unseating Rep. Rob Bresnahan (R-PA). But a resurfaced video from 2020 exposes a gun-grabbing posture that some voters may not be aware of.
In the video, taken from a virtual town hall, Cognetti supports disarming police and emulating Japan’s gun-control laws to take away guns from citizens.
Japan has some of the strictest gun control laws in the developed world.
The Firearms and Swords Control Law 1958 states that no one shall possess a firearm except under narrow, strictly regulated exceptions. Handguns are banned with almost no exceptions for ordinary citizens.
Cognetti told the town hall audience, “I would love to get to a world where a country where we don’t have or police don’t have firearms and where we don’t have firearms that citizens aren’t carrying them either.”
“I’ve lived in Japan for a couple years. There are no guns there and it’s lovely.”
She continued, “We don’t have to worry about some of these things because there are no guns there. That would be something that would be a great reality for us to live in.”
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Cognetti repeated her fantasy during an interview with the Black Scranton Project, saying, “I do want to get to a point where we don’t have to worry about any officers having holsters or guns in them.”
“That is ideally where we get in our whole country.”
National Republican Congressional Committee spokeswoman Reilly Richardson told the Daily Caller News Foundation, “Political opportunist Paige Cognetti wants to rip firearms away from law-abiding citizens while simultaneously making life easier for criminals.”
“Pennsylvanians know Cognetti will go to great lengths to strip them of their constitutional rights.”
WFMD notes that Bresnahan’s campaign manager, Peter Brath, weighed in on the comments in February, saying Cognetti “has repeatedly shown a stunning disregard for the safety of her constituents, including the very law enforcement officers sworn to protect them.”
“She downplays rising gang violence and murders, wants to disarm the police, and was recently caught partying in New York City just days after the brutal machete murders of two women and a service dog devastated the community.”
“Time and again, Mayor Cognetti refuses to get her priorities straight. The people of Scranton deserve better,” Brath added.
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