SENATOR CHRIS MURPHY: GOP Knows ‘Everything Is Different’ and Gun Rights ‘Might’ Cost Party Election. “Republicans ‘have this sort of genetic attachment to this lobby and to this industry that they simply cannot break until they are forced to,’ says Dem senator.”

Power-seeking pols trying to force — that’s Murphy’s word — people into surrendering their constitutional rights is all the justification anyone needs for a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment.