Rand Paul

They have the constitutional right to carry.

So if we're going to become the party that says, oh, you don't have a right to carry and you might just be shot, there is no reason to shoot somebody.

In fact, the gun statistics show that those who carry are like a thousand times less likely to commit a crime and less likely to draw their weapon.

Republican Senator Rand Paul grilling Secretary of State Rubio on the capture of now former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

The Trump administration carried out the operation to capture Maduro without congressional approval, which has received pushback from Paul and congressional Democrats.

Republicans have praised the operation to remove a leader the U.S.

considers illegitimate and a narco-terrorist.

You know, I think one of the best things President Trump has done and really people from across the aisle support is removing violent people from our cities.

So I think that's been a good thing largely, but it can't be done with no rules.

And so when people watch that video and the government tells them, well, he was assaulting the police officers,

Nobody with any objectivity watches that video and believes that's what's happening.

As the man retreats, with each altercation, he retreats, and then the woman is thrown violently to the ground.

He's thrown to the ground.

No American believes that he was assaulting the officers.

In fact, the opposite appears to be true.

So we have to get some rules of the game, and we can't have the government justifying this type of behavior because the vast majority of Americans think this was unfair, what happened.

Also, the intimation or actually the explicit call to say you don't have a Second Amendment right to carry arms in a protest really flies in the face of most of our Second Amendment community.

I can tell you I've been to dozens and dozens of rallies and or protests where people are visibly armed or happy.

concealed carry.

So the people are saying this.