And then click share and send by email, facebook, twitter or google . Searchable, easy and free. Created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Taking you live to the National Press club in washington, d. C. For discussion on the Second Amendment and with paul helmke, former president of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence. He will deliver remarks here. He is addressing the political debate surrounding and legislation. He is currently professor at indiana universitys school of public and Environmental Affairs, crazy served as mayor of fort wayne, indiana. This is live coverage here on cspan2. Before we proceed with his introduction would like to thank mr. Richard heller who is responsible for our getting him you. They dont see eye to eye. Mr. Heller [applause] it was his lawsuit that overthrew the d. C. Gun control law which was a landmark decision. Anyhow, thank you and by way of him, we have mr. Helmke here today. Paul is a former mayor
Many of us gave him that opportunity. Many of our activists who are part of the leader of the coalition now they actually formed a forum. They were willing to take bashar on his promises to reform the country introduce it into the modern world and so on and so forth. Unfortunately theres a crack down in the damascus spring and then there was another moment after the assassination of hariri but the damascus situation and early on in the first 40 years i remember very well and i follows minute by minute. We were accepting the argument that they were an old guard and the regime etc. Etc. But after 50 years in power he became fully in charge. The system is highly centralized highly personalized and he immediately reverted to his fathers way of first saying you have external challenges that take precedence over domestic reform and second you were not going to introduce political reforms but introduce economic and he talked about the chinese model but nothing was meaningfully introduced to g
I see the challenges that the issue of gun violence presents us in this country and how hard it is to solve that issue particularly i know living in the beltway for five, six years, you do develop a beltway mentality and think its always about fighting here, and you dont realize there are a lot of opportunities, should be a lot of opportunities to find Common Ground on many issues, including gun violence. So thats kind of the perspective im coming from too. Identify talked to elected officials, gun owners, friends and others in the state and, hopefully, have a few ideas that might be interesting here today. I just want to acknowledge real quickly my old friend martin chavez, the former mayor of albuquerque, good to see you. As well ascare line brewer caroline brewer. And we have a couple representatives from moms demand action for common sense i cant remember the official title, but moms demand action to end violence in this country, so thank you. Actually, when i started the semester
Indicatingstatistic that between 2005 and 2010 some were stolen in home breakins and issues like wondering how would how do you see the country addressing that you might, i guess say, loophole in background checks. An issue, too. When folks are interviewed in never know how much you can believe from what theyre saying and where they but stolen guns is one of the areas where people get their gun. What out all the time when i talk to friends that are gun owners, i say, im not as youn, as long recognize not only the rights but the responsibilities and the risks that go with owning a gun some of the risks are that there are different have shown different percentages of how often that gun is likely to be used against Family Member, some studies say up to 21 times more against you ored Family Member than against an the risk itthere is will be used against you and part of it is somebody gets gets angry,ody somebody gets depressed, somebody shoots the thinkrinlaw when they its an intruder but
The government cannot legally, constitutionally confiscate weapons. You have an individual right to these things. Arguments i made was that the whole issue of licensing and registration is a moot point. The courts say you cannot have confiscation of the weapons. Another thing that is more clear is that the most enthusiastic gun owners that i mostwith, and the aggressive that i argue with are those that have or want to get their concealed carry permit. The government knows who they are. These are the most argumentative folks there is a list there. Not to mention the fact that people profile all sorts of other things. The fact that the heller case ended up with a charge for d. C. To get the license to him, the fact that we have looked at registration for machine guns for years means there is some capability to take those concepts and combine them with some sort of National Reciprocity that would take care of the argument i hear from the nra and others on the gun right side. That is the b