we can feel it, right? in the moment yesterday. that history was being made in the state of tennessee yes, of course it was shameful that it came to all of that. expelling two state lawmakers ostensibly on procedural grounds over peaceful protests but ask yourself this. if the ultimate goal of any demonstration is to draw attention, to shine a light on injustice, then who is really better off as we come on the air less than 24 hours later today the tennessee republican party or those three democrats of whom they sought to make an examine pl representatives justin jones, justin parson and gloria johnson, they lit the match that started a bonfire, one that burned from coast to coast as americans watch transfixed yesterday afternoon into the evening on the east. now millions across our country are infinitely more aware not just of the barriers to do anything more than nothing about the epidemic of gun violence but of rank anti-democratic fervor among republicans. we are still
violence epidemic which is the number one threat to schoolchildren that is what fred and i talk about. we talk about how we re inspired by the two representatives, how the republicans showed their true colors. i think that they made a horrific political mistake but fred and i like to talk about the positives of these things that happen because obviously, you know, if we dwell on the fact that five years later from parkland we re still dealing even with the progress we ve made, and we ve made progress, you know, every time you secure a school, every time you put an sro in, every time that you pass red flag law, you are mitigating the damage. but fred and i know that until we ban assault weapons and get ar-15s off the street, you know, kids are just not going to be safe in the schools. and fred, i don t know if you can see this, but to our other conversation about what has been put in motion, the vice
players were killed by another former player who came back and shot folks up on campus. can anything like gun reform get done in your view with 51 votes? does that make it more possible? well, there s certainly a possibility to get more done. we got 65 votes for the gun violence bill we passed last summer. and if you look at the exit polls in this election, you see that the vast majority of americans want tighter gun laws and that majority is voting for democrats by a 4 to 1 margin. once again, republicans are going to have a hard time win figure they don t support additional legislation beyond what we passed this last year. let s be honest, there are more guns in this country than people right now. this nation is awash in weapons and until you do something about stopping the black market trade of weapons, until you get these ar-15s off the street, you ll continue to see tragedies like you saw on two college campuses today. yeah, at least treat ar-15s