uncomfortable because we have got to get gun safety laws passed and protect our kids and communities everywhere. i m honored to have colin godard who survived the gun shootings and james salt, executive director of catholics you nilted joining me right now. thank you so much, gentlemen. thanks, karen. good to be with you. colin, i want to start with you because i remember when this first happened and sort of when these incidents happened and far too many of them, there s an attack that somehow we re politicizing the issue but it strikes me that we need to be politicizing this issue because we re not getting movement and it is not that it s a left-right issue, this is an issue that affects everybody. right. i mean, if you re right. if we paused for a moment of silence after every moment of gun silence, we would be in a perpetual state of silence. 33 people are killed in this country every single day.
0 listen to them. this divide cannot go on. if we want to keep our government stable right. you can t have a situation where people are feeling that their children will not do just as good or better than they ve done. and that s the feeling that people are getting. i just listened to your clip with ryan, congressman ryan, and he said we have to move to common ground. he s absolutely wrong about that. we have got to move to higher ground. our society is better than this. better than what we re doing. you re so right, congressman. we need to be talking about the issues more, as moral issues rather than political issues. that s right. i want to switch gears because, obviously, today marks a very sad day in our nation in terms of one year since the newtown tragedy and yet and also, a day after a tragedy in colorado. yes. when are we going do get the republicans on board with getting real comprehensive gun safety measures done? they have got to be able to say no to the
what happened yesterday brings into question some important values in america. if we value our right for ourselves and our families and our children to be safe, if we value this constitution, if it we value the right of every american to enjoy their liberties with reasonable limitations, then we need to return to issues that are of importance. i want to go now to colin godard, a survivor of the virginia tech massacre, and a senior policy advocate for mayors against illegal guns. good afternoon, colin. i understand that you are in washington for a series of meetings, in efforts to renew a gun reform push. but we heard majority leader harry reid today say, and i m quoting him, we don t have the votes on background checks. i m assuming that s got to be deeply disheartening to someone like you, who survived a horrific mass shooting on a day like today, 24 hours after yet another one.
in-person meeting with members of the committee that we have been lacking. and that will carry us to a day where most people in washington, d.c., most elected officials realize, they need to vote for something like background checks. something that s common sense, public safety laws that will keep everyone safe. colin godard, thank you for person fying some optimism and such determination. thank you for joining us, sir. thanks. coming up, how does congress side with the public opinion on an issue like syria and yet remain so defiant when it comes to gun reform? perhaps a member of congress can explain this strange dichotomy. that s next. don t leave me all by myself once upon a time, an insurance clerk stumbled upon a cottage. [knock] no one was at home, but on the kitchen table sat three insurance policies.
0 what happened yesterday brings into question some important values in america. if we value our right for ourselves and our families and our children to be safe, if we value this constitution, if it we value the right of every american to enjoy their liberties with reasonable limitations, then we need to return to issues that are of importance. i want to go now to colin godard, a survivor of the virginia tech massacre, and a senior policy advocate for mayors against illegal guns. good afternoon, colin. i understand that you are in washington for a series of meetings, in efforts to renew a gun reform push. but we heard majority leader harry reid today say, and i m quoting him, we don t have the votes on background checks. i m assuming that s got to be deeply disheartening to someone like you, who survived a horrific mass shooting on a day like today, 24 hours after yet another one. it is disheartening. but i do take solace in the fact that we did have a vote in the united states