While saying he didn’t want to get into politics, former FBI Director James Comey told an audience in Miami that the National Rifle Association is an organization that “sells fear.”
According to the Miami Herald, Comey said he would support “reasonable restrictions” on gun owners and that doing so would not be akin to going down a “slippery slope.”
“It’s not a slippery slope, it’s a concrete set of stairs” that was designed by the framers of the Constitution, Comey suggested. “Let’s have these conversations standing there, holding the rails.”
Comey was in Miami to push his recent tell-all book on his relationship with President Donald Trump, “A Higher Loyalty.”
Comey insisted he would make a “crappy candidate” in part because “I hate the idea of asking people for money.”
Despite being fired by Trump, Comey, insisted, “I don’t hate Donald Trump. I don’t hate people that voted for Donald Trump.”
But he was critical of Trump’s leadership and personality morality.
Comey may dismiss talk of politics, but he was treated like a politician at the Miami event. Protesters stood at the entrance to the auditorium and shouted that both Comey and Clinton belong in jail.