CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker outlined his proposals for tough gun restrictions during a round table discussion on gun violence at Charlotte’s Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.
Booker is the junior Senator from New Jersey and the former Mayor of Newark.
His stop in Charlotte follows the shooting on the campus of UNC-Charlotte and the shooting death of a Mooresville Police officer.
Among his proposals, Booker wants the ability to hold gun manufacturers accountable for the weapons they produce.
He is also called for the federal government to license gun owners.
“If you need a license to drive a car for safety, you can have a license to own and operate safely a gun,” said Booker.
Even some within his own party though think licensing guns might be too extreme.
Booker was not dissuaded saying, “I think anybody who has bold ideas are going to have people question them. I’m driving towards what I know is a pressing issue for 10 of millions, hundreds of millions of Americans.”
Booker told a packed house in the church auditorium that gun violence has to stop.
“This doesn’t have to be visited on more families. We don’t have to see more church shootings or more classroom shootings.”