know, heyday of the mafia was sort of off the hook. and it was sort of like, oh, you know, all italians are not like this. you see this uncle speaking for the chechen community and saying please don t tar us all with this brush. it just felt so american. not anti-american or un-american. yeah. no, you know, listen, polish jokes are okay if my family is telling them. if it is anybody else, watch out. anyway, i want to thank heather of the national security network. and bahar. the senate s 46 no votes on background checks, every name, every vote, after this. with the spark miles card from capital one,
falling short, well short, of the 60 votes needed to surmount p filibuster which prompt ad stream of outraged denunciations of the upper chamber. there is a problem, though, with leaning on that 90% stat and makes the politics of gun control seem incredibly simple and incredibly easy. this logic, every senator who voted against background checks, should now be in grave danger of facing a popular uprising in losing his or her seat. the truth is that few of the senators who voted no this week will pay any political price. the fact that they may all get away scot-free. some voted yes may end up suffering at the polls. intensity has something do with this. nra crowd is more likely to vote on guns and guns alone. the real reason is there a huge gulf between the responses voters give pollsters on individual policy questions and how voters actually respond when those policies are enacted. when, in other words, the policies are filtered through the partisan political system. i think you know h
frankly. background checks work. the system is in place and they are working now. in certain situations and with sales by federally licensed dealers. let s apply them to all commercial sales and categorize and get to those people who are categorized as prohibited owners and stop those persons who are dangerous and do harm to others and get a background check on all buyers. i don t understand strengthening the background check and not applying it in all commercial sales makes no sense what over. quickly, we are coming to the end of the hour. robert, you followed politics at capitol hill. what s your take on flake? why do you think he was a no vote? hi breakfast with pat toomey. he thought there was a lot of misinformation out there. influenced the gun owners pressuring the senators. both democrats and republicans were peeling real heat from the for block in a lot of these
level, you look at roger wicker, put him on there and found no evidence that he was really interested in voting for the back ground check, from a sort of very conservative state. he has an a-plus rating from the nra. he did vote for this. some of the others, though, he did vote to get to the debate. some of the others, though, really did flirt with background checks. one that stands out the most there is tom coburn. tom coburn spent, you know, a long time negotiateding with chuck schumer and looked like this was going to be the big republican get for schumer and was going to get a very conservative oklahoman and this was how background checks would get through. and trying to figure out why tom coburn changed his mind, one incident sticks out to me and it was at the end of january when a another group the gun owners of america. it was another group that s more conservative than the nra. took out an ad and in oklahoma and that just basically said is tom coburn about to make
of universal background checks say this is the opening window to a national gun registry that would be used to take away guns. not only is that not true. this bill would actually make that impossible. it would make it illegal. so that s one thing. the other thing he talked about is the politics. west virginia is a very, you know, red state if you will. and he has won there consistently because of how he talks about issues and like guns, i think you ve seen this very clearly. he is able to communicate in a very effective way. i think he is talking to her and making it clear, this is an issue. we re talking about criminal back ground checks. we re about mental background checks. strengthening that process. this is something, legitimate, law-abiding gun owners want. by strengthening, getting rid of these loopholes, strengthening these laws, you strengthen the amendment. let me play a bit of this.