AWR Hawkins 24 Jun 2026
Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti (D), who is running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 8th District, once explained her dream of disarming U.S. citizens and police officers alike.
The NRA published a June 5, 2020, video in which Cognetti, as sitting mayor, said, “I would love to get to a world and a country where…police don’t have firearms and…where citizens aren’t carrying them either.”
She said, “I lived in a Japan for a couple of years and there are no guns there and it’s lovely. We don’t have to worry about some of these things because there are no guns there.”
Cognetti went on to admit she was not sure an end to gun possession was “feasible in the near term,” but she made clear it was something she thought worth working toward.
https://twitter.com/NRA/status/2069800338169741351Cognetti’s run for Congress is endorsed by Giffords and the Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety.
Giffords praised Cognetti’s pro-gun control stance and assured voters that “she’ll work to implement universal background checks on gun sales nationwide, strengthen safe storage measures so that guns can’t fall into the wrong hands, and take on the gun industry and its corrupt practices.”
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/06/24/dem-congressional-candidate-dreamed-of-disarming-citizens-and-police/
