like it was that normal? it slid because it is normal if you listen to the rhetoric on college campus. you are with us or against us or we will shout you down and not allow you to speak if you differ from our point of view. i didn t hear talk about the high school in maryland where a resource officer took out the shooter before there was further loss of life. one girl did pass away last week. that s a solution that wasn t allowed to be presented because in the mind of many of the people organizing this event, there is only one solution. that s an assault weapons ban. you have to allow other ideas to be presented to such a comprehensive problem. we had 26 mass school shootings at elementary school or high school since columbine in 1999. let s hear some other ideas or about the failures of law
ban and the overall rate remain unchanged? you are right about cotum bin. columbine. i said 43% went down. tucker: the clinton justice department was required to study the facts. the death rate by firearms did not decline over that 10 year period. no lives were saved. doesn t that give you pause? no tdoesn t. when i think about 2004 when congress lifted that ban and mass shootings went up over 200%. those are the numbers. mass shootings went up. those are the numbers. tucker: the murder rate didn t move at all. okay, those are the numbers. what do you think would happen if law enforcement pushed by
have simple solutions. in real life nothing is simple. we don t know why the number of school shootings has risen. this self-righteous kids screaming at you over the weekend are not helping. erica thomas joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. what do you think would happen if we tried to confiscate assault weapons from law-abiding americans? well, it s about how people will respond. what happened back in 1994. we had a ban on assault rifles. mass shootings went down by 43%. we want those to go down. tucker: didn t columbine take place during the assault weapons
in real life, nothing is simple. we don t really know why the incidence of n school shootings has risen even at the proportion of households with firearms has dropped. we ought tohy do our best to fid out. the self-righteous kids screaming at you on television over the weekend aren t helping atn. all. erika thomas is a georgia state representative and advocate of gun control and she joins us. representative thomas, thanks for coming on. what do you think would happen if we tried to confiscate assault weapons from law-abiding americans? well, yes, it s about how what happened back in 1994. we had a ban on assault rifles. mass shootings went down by 43%. that s what we want to happen. we want mass shootings to go down. i think that s the most important point in this matter. tucker: didn t columbine take place during the assault weapons ban and didn t the overall rate remain unchanged?