Dem Mayor Seeking To Flip Red Seat Blue Fantasized About Disarming Police, Citizens In Resurfaced Video

Democratic Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti said she supported disarming police officers and wanted to emulate Japan’s gun-control laws in a resurfaced video from 2020. Cognetti, who is seeking to unseat Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Rob Bresnahan in the Eighth Congressional District, has a history of supporting anti-Second Amendment groups, notably Everytown. She made the remarks about Japan’s gun-control laws during a June 2020 virtual town hall in which she also said she wanted to disarm police. “I would love to get to a world where a country where we don’t have or police don’t have firearms and where we don’t have...