much ammunition in civilian hands and people with mental troubles, like this alleged shooter clearly appears to have, can freely buy not just in arizona but in many other states, as much ammunition as he wants. that is just wrong. and i think that there is, as you just said, some renewed momentum here. i don t know whether it s adequate. i think the senate is able will be able to pass some legislation. frank lautenberg has introduced a ban to extended clips, which used to law until it expired. carolyn mccarthy, her husband was killed and her son was wounded on a subway about a mad man 17 years ago, will introduce it here. and i will surely support it. i m betting that there will be more support for it now than there would have been last year. the real essence of control lear is ammunition control.
congresswoman jane harman, democrat of california. congresswoman, in your comments the other day on the house floor in commemoration of the tragedy in tucson, you did bring up the otherwise forbidden subject, apparently, in congress, of doing something about these weapons. what do you think the prospects are of goating some progress now? well, let me say first that as i sat on a house floor for about an hour and a half, waiting to be recognized for my comments on our colleague gabby giffords, i noticed that no one else, no one speaking before me and the leadership on both sides and kay numba number of people before me, mentioned anything about sensible gun control and ammunition control. i nonetheless felt that even as i was paying tribute to gabby giffords, whose views on guns are different from mine, it was important as a legislator to put this subject back on the table. we have too many guns and too