He’s running for Congress in California’s 45th Congressional district because Washington is broken. As our community struggles to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, career politicians are more interested in serving themselves and their partisan agenda rather than serving the people who elected them.
Gun violence is a national health epidemic that is unique to the United States. Every other day, an incident of gun violence takes place at a school in our country. We cannot accept this as normal, because it isn’t. We must enact the gun safety laws that the vast majority of Americans, including those who own guns, support. This includes expanded background checks that cover all commercial gun sales – including those at gun shows, over the internet, or in classified ads. We need to ban the sale of modifications that make these weapons more dangerous than they already are, and we need to renew the assault weapons ban.
As an officer in the United States Navy Reserves, I’m proud to be qualified as a sharpshooter with both the M9 Beretta and M16. I know how to handle a weapon of war, and I know it has no place in our streets.