viral. when a writer for jimmy kimmel live saw that she replied she has since deleted this she wrote this after seeing some of c.j. s your unfortunate ignorant tweets about kneeling football players and glib retweet of an antigun control pundit were read out here to a saddened room in los angeles. best of luck from the other side of history. she then continued please consider the power you have over young minds before taking stands against those who peacefully protest against systemic police brutality that you ll blessedly never experience. your tweet spread and your narrow ideology spreads, too. well here now with his reaction is that teacher. c.j.marbel. thank you for having me. ainsley: what was your reaction when you red bess original tweet. i was on a bus coming back from a junior high
the president s gun policies. so that flies in the face you know, if a majority of americans are not for something, it is interesting when it seems like all the other networks are pushing something. one thing about guns is there is an asymmetry about preference. people who are prosecond amendment rights, antigun control, they have intense preferences. these polls will fool people. sometimes there will be 60%, 70%, 80% of the people in favor of regulations but the politicians will get burned by that. they will vote for gun regulations not realizing these people with intense regulations. people like mary landrieu may find out the hard way. despite polls, i doubt they ll vote that way. steve: do you think it has to do with the fact
happened, i guess, 17, 18 years ago, back in 1995. i forgot what the exact controversy was, but the nra referred to them as jack booded thugs. if you remember, it was george hw bush at the time, who, at that moment, resigned his lifelong membership in the nra. now, at the time the nra was kind of ascending. you had just had the 1994 midterms. democrats believed they had lost. they were scared. he didn t have much of a political impact. but i m thinking of the current debate right now. it s doing the exact same thing as it did then. except gun control is on the table in a very serious way. they have felt political pressure to toe the line. they want to be antigun control. they don t want to anger the nra. right now, there s enormous pressure and opportunity to vote for real gun control.
i forgot what the exact controversy was, but the nra referred to them as jack booded thugs. if you remember, it was george hw bush at the time, who, at that moment, resigned his lifelong membership in the nra. now, at the time the nra was kind of ascending. you had just had the 1994 midterms. democrats believed they had lost. they were scared. he didn t have much of a political impact. but i m thinking of the current debate right now. it s doing the exact same thing as it did then. except gun control is on the table in a very serious way. they have felt political pressure to toe the line. they want to be antigun control. they don t want to anger the nra. right now, there s enormous pressure and opportunity to vote for real gun control. the nra is making it easy for politicians to say you know what, these guys are a bunch of
happened i guess, 17, 18 years ago back in 1995. i forgot what the exact controversy was, but the nra referred to them as jack booded thugs. if you remember, it was george hw bush at the time, who, at that moment, resigned his lifelong membership in the nra. now, at the time the nra was kind of ascending. you had just had the 1994 midterms. democrats believed they had lost. they were scared. he didn t have much of a political impact. but i m thinking of the current debate right now. it s doing the exact same thing as it did now. except gun control is on the table in a very serious way. they have felt political pressure. they want to be antigun control. they don t want to anger the nra. right now, there s enormous pressure and opportunity to vote