Jered Townsend

So first, Here is a Reason Magazine interview with Jered Townsend, the YouTuber who asked the gun control question at the CNN-YouTube debates, I think he does a good job of defending his actions and his mental competency.

Looks like other news outlets have been curious about him too.

After the debates, he contacted Biden's campaign by email and phone asking if he could just talk with Biden to talk about the 2nd Ammendment. He'll never get a response though. Biden has made it abundantly clear that he has no intention of winning over the 23 percent of Democrats who identify themselves as gun owners. What frightens me is that perhaps the silence of the other candidates (sans Richardson) paired with the loud applause at the debates, indicates their approval of Biden's comments.

This is political foolishness, as one in three Americans who live in the Midwest and South owns a gun, and it is precisely by tapping gun-friendly Democrats like John Tester & Jim Webb did the Democrats finally manage to achieve some victories. If the Democratic party hasn't learned from its 1994 mistakes, then they'll once again grab defeat from the jaws of victory in the next election.

The Democrats need to listen to what Richardson is saying. Most gun owners (except hardcore Libertarians) are fine with the idea of preventing criminals from being able to purchase guns. Some of us are even willing to provide a legal mechanism by which private individuals can safely sell their weapons to other individuals through a background check system (i.e. closing the gun show loophole). But you will not bring us to the table (or the voting booth) by calling us mentally unstable because we happen to like our guns as much as you like your Prius.