“Let me tell you why I’m a defender of the Second Amendment,” she said.
“I was a little girl growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the late fifties, early sixties,” she explained. “There was no way that Bull Connor and the Birmingham Police were going to protect you.”
“And so when White Knight Riders would come through our neighborhood,” she said, “my father and his friends would take their guns and they’d go to the head of the neighborhood, it’s a little cul-de-sac and they would fire in the air if anybody came through.”
She also said she wasn’t in favor of civilians having the ability to possess “assault-style” weapons or gun registration but agreed that a national conversation “about how we can deal with the problems we have” should be had.