<p>Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) seems to be struggling to get much traction for his 2020 presidential bid. According to prediction market website <a href="https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3633/Who-will-win-the-2020-Democratic-presidential-nomination">PredictIt.org</a>, Booker is currently the eighth most likely Democrat to win the presidential nomination. And in one recent Democratic presidential primary <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/442310-joe-biden">poll</a> that shows former Vice President Joe Biden with a massive 32% lead over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43796/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">socialist</a> Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Booker barely registers with merely 3% support.</p>
<p>In other words, Booker needs a spark — perhaps a spark to energize the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">increasingly hard-left</a> Democratic Party activist base. In a CNN appearance on Monday, Booker may have tried to generate that spark by offering a (tyrannical and anti-constitutional) paean to the vehemently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer">anti-Second Amendment partisans</a> of the Democratic Party base.</p>
<p>Mikhael Smits of The Washington Free Beacon tweeted Booker&#8217;s underlying CNN clip and noted: &#8220;Cory Booker won&#8217;t say whether he&#8217;ll jail Americans who refuse to surrender firearms they lawfully purchased if he&#8217;s president.&#8221;</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p>Cory Booker won&#8217;t say whether he&#8217;ll jail Americans who refuse to surrender firearms they lawfully purchased if he&#8217;s president: <a href="https://t.co/DTGDDLp2ud">pic.twitter.com/DTGDDLp2ud</a></p>
<p>— Mikhael Smits (@mikhaelsmits) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikhaelsmits/status/1125403441432551426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 6, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>As Smits <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/booker-dodges-on-jailing-gun-owners/">elaborated</a>, CNN anchor Poppy Harlow pressed Booker on whether he agreed with the proposals of his fellow 2020 presidential candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43486/house-judiciary-committee-democrats-target-private-josh-hammer">anti-gun stalwart</a>, who supports &#8220;buy-back programs, where Americans who currently have [certain types of] guns could sell them, essentially, to the government.&#8221; As Harlow noted, Swalwell then proposes that if the gun owners &#8220;don&#8217;t [turn in their weapons] within a certain period of time, they would be prosecuted, thrown in jail.&#8221;</p>
<p>Booker prevaricated, initially resorting to the tangential leftist platitude that the &#8220;critical thing is I think most Americans agree that these weapons of war should not be on our streets.&#8221;</p>
<p>But Harlow was not satisfied. Per <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/booker-dodges-on-jailing-gun-owners/">Smits</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Harlow again pressed Booker.</p>
<p>&#8220;But would you prosecute people?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Do you support the government buying them back and if not, potentially people could go to jail if they don&#8217;t want to sell them back? Yes or no?&#8221;</p>
<p>Booker would not answer the question.</p>
<p>&#8220;Again, we should have a law that bans these weapons and we should have a reasonable period in which people can turn in these weapons,&#8221; Booker answered. &#8220;Right now we have a nation that allows in streets and communities like mine these weapons that should not exist.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Cory Booker therefore<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cory-booker-americans-should-be-thrown-in-jail-if-they-wont-give-up-their-guns"> appears to want</a> to throw Americans in jail who do not voluntarily turn in lawfully purchased firearms to their federal government overlords.</p>
<p>Earlier yesterday, Booker unveiled an elaborate gun control plan. Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/cory-booker-2020-presidential-election-gun-control-plan-6c00d290-b4c1-4cc1-aa03-89593b50b432.html">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The plan features some of the most progressive measures to combat gun violence proposed by any 2020 candidate. &#8230;</p>
<p>The biggest thing in the proposal is a national gun licensing program, which would force Americans to apply for 5-year gun licenses before obtaining a firearm. The process would include fingerprinting, an interview, gun safety courses, and a federal background check.</p>
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<li>It includes a ban on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and bump stocks.</li>
<li>It would seek to close loopholes, like the one that allows people on the federal terror watch list to be able to obtain guns.</li>
<li>It would increase oversight on gun manufacturing, giving more leeway to the Consumer Product Safety Commission to put warnings on firearms and recall them, if necessary.</li>
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<p>The Democratic Party activist base is increasingly extremely hostile to Second Amendment rights. In a USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/26/kamala-harris-owns-handgun-unacceptable-2020-democratic-race-column/3567371002/">op-ed</a> last month, Peter Funt argued that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) ought to be disqualified as a possible 2020 presidential candidate merely because she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46000/hypocrite-much-kamala-harris-admits-owning-gun-josh-hammer">owns a handgun</a>.</p>

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