barring people from buying more than one handgun a month. that would stop straw purchasers. 40% of our handguns in pennsylvania come from straw purchasers, but it would have allowed you to buy 12 handguns a year. 24 if you re married. that s no limitation at all in a practical sense. so 70% of pennsylvanians favored that law. i couldn t even get it out of committee. because the nra has done such a good job of spooking our legislators. i think the mindset you ve had, the slippery slope, you can t give an inch because if we give anything on any issues, then it will be the ammunition. purely bull. that s purely bull. unfortunately, we ve seen that happen not only in the united states but in other countries as well. what the former governor is talking about here, though, is prior restraint, limiting how many guns you can buy, limiting what kind of ammunition you can use, limiting the size of your
day, people in arizona would be alive today that died that day. that s my question. why has the gun debate dropped off the radar? in today s daily beast, new york city mayor michael bloomberg tell it, hear most pundits and americans are hopelessly divided by guns, but we re not. polls show that nra members support common sense steps to ensure that guns are kept out of the hands of criminals. and the long angeles times says, few presidents have shown as little interest in gun control as barack obama. it s as if avoid gun control at all costs has become a plank in the democratic party platform. they re ain t loser. guys like mr. gottlieb and the nra are very effective at standing and lobbying. but take a law that i tried to get instituted in pennsylvania,
some gun rights groups supported, and while running for the u.s. senate against edward kennedy, romney supported an assault weapons ban and the brady gun control law. in 2007, he asked romney about his position on guns and here is what he said. my position on guns is the same position i ve had for a long, long time. and my position is i don t line up with the nra. i don t see eye to eye with the nra on every issue. and, of course, it was in 2007 that there was this same situation with governor romney and his hunting experience. let s watch. i m not a big game hunter. i ve always been a rodent and rabbit hunter, small varmints, if you will. i started when i was 18 and hunted those, and i ve also
for a moment. as governor of pennsylvania, you vetoed stand your ground, am i correct, and it was your successor, tom corbett, who came in and signed it into law. i guess you re looking like a sootheis soot soothesayr, unfortunately, in trayvon martin. do you think the trayvon martin case is going to cause a severe reexamination of stand your ground in those states across the country that now have it in their books. i hope so, and mayor bloomberg has called for that. it s interesting on your administration. the district attorney s association made up of 50. so why don t we listen to law enforcement, mr. got lean. tear. . we re not like a lot of other
rendell is an nbc political analyst, and alan gottlieb is from the foundation and is joining us from the nra convention in st. louis. gentlemen, speaking at that nra convention, late this afternoon mitt romney decried what he called the president s assault on basic freedoms but largely avoided diving into the issues of gun control in the 2nd amendment. it wasn t until 15 minutes into the speech that he mentioned the right to bear arms. here it is. this administration s attack on freedom extends even to rights explicitly guaranteed by the constitution. the right to bear arms is so plainly stated, so unambiguous, that liberals have a hard time challenging it directly. instead they ve been employing every imaginable ruse and ploy to restrict it. now, mitt romney has supported some gun control measures in the past. as governor he signed a law that made permanent a ban on assault-type rifles, although it was coupled with measures that