Coburn Town Hall Turns to Talk on Gun Control
Crowd asks Coburn about immigration
Rebeka Rutledge, Duncan Banner
04/02/2013
Close to 150 people showed up to have their concerns heard by U.S. Senator Tom Coburn during a town hall meeting Monday evening, most of which reflect the concerns of the entire nation.
Among those concerns, the most mentioned were insurance, tax, immigration and gun control laws. Though the issues that were brought up weren’t surprising, the crowd may have found some of Coburn’s responses unexpected.
Overall, the senator had one statement he continued to come back to throughout the entire one-hour forum no matter what the issue.
“There is no problem we can’t solve in the nation but we have no leadership up in Washington on either side to do it,” Coburn said. “There is too much cowardliness in addressing these problems.”
One issue that had many of those in attendance weighing in on was gun control and the prospective ways it may be handled in the foreseeable future. In order to create a safer way for one citizen to sell a gun to another citizen, a “nix” list will be able to be checked.