A day after all 31 anti-gun control senators declined interviews on NBC's "Meet the Press,", Sen. Joe Manchin, a Second Amendment defender from West Virginia, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Monday that it was time for a "sensible, reasonable" debate on firearms restrictions.
Friday's massacre at a Connecticut elementary school has propelled the issue back into the public realm after the deaths of 20 children and eight adults shocked the nation.
"It's time to move beyond rhetoric. We need to sit down and have a common-sense discussion and move in a reasonable way. … Everything has to be on the table," Manchin, a Democrat, told Joe Scarborough on Monday, adding that he had just gone on a deer-hunting trip with his family.