killed eight people at a shopping mall and allen, texas, with an ar-15. our next guest, professor dr. cynthia miller-idriss studies american issue some. it s a day, she had this exchange with marcia taylor greene at a household committee hearing. would you consider trump supporters extremists? we are worried about violent extremism, not to the extent of what people believe but the extent that they re moving towards violence. trump supporters, specifically? if they re calling for violence, does not matter to me who they support. have not seen any. by the way, there s a great rally at iowa this weekend, if you want to study people on the right, what they believe joining us now, dr. cynthia miller-idriss, public affairs professor at the american university and director of the polarization and extremism research and innovation lab american university. she s the author of hay in the homeland, the new global far-right. also ryan busse, former firearms executive at one of the co
populous. frankly, a lot of this was started by groups like the nra and the firearms industry that basically have reduced a very complex policy battles down to this simple or nothing black or white. you tell people, right, that their culture is under threat. it s an existential battle. now, they re armed to the teeth. we have 415 million guns in the united states, and extremists can buy, arrest people can buy those very simply. we have about 267 million vehicles the united states, so 150 million more guns than vehicles. we have way too many radicalized extremists, as cynthia mentioned. ryan, you and i talked about this before. all the publications and magazines. i am a business reporter, so i understand business side of it. but it became an imperative for the industry. unless you can get everyone to fear all of the things that could possibly happen to you, you stop people from buying one gun or no guns. why did it happen?