that grew up and that was part of life, are so responsible. here you have a very small percentage of people that want to have the freedom. freedom to go out and get a military-styled weapon that people that get them are not prepared to get and that the police can t even match. the mainstream gun culture is ma mainstream. the nra functionally is a trade organization for weapons manufacturers and their job is to sell more guns. i suspect if you could see behind the books that have group, you would see money swaushing around from gun makers. that s why we have these ritual panics about gun takeback. buyback. because the goal is to sell more guns. they ve already sold as many guns as they possibly can and more and more to the small number of people that want
new jersey somewhere. the company. home depot. sign me up. if that s going to save people riding their bikes and walking their babies, sign me up. i m for that. and so would all other americans be for that. 90% of americans support increased background checks. the excuse is always it s too soon to talk about it, but it s so soon between the incidents, there s no time to talk about it. we re responding to an incident like this every one to two weeks around the united states. the pace picked up over the last three to four years and we re removing barriers if we re worried about mentally disturbed people getting the weapons, president trump is removing those barriers. if he s concerned about mentally disturbed people getting assault rifles, he can do something about it. i m a strong second amendment supporter. i grew up in a home with guns. my dad was safety obsessive about having us know how to use the guns in the absolute most
so tell me, why do americans, though, there are a lot of americans, a lot of americans who voted for me in the past, a lot of americans who that you know who see the second amendment, and their ability to buy whatever guns they want as deeply symbolic and deeply important as a check against government overreach. why is that? i understand that. i think there s a romantic notion that somehow if someone comes to take everything you have, you re still going to have a gun with which to protect yourself. i d like conservatives to point to a single instance, c what rebellion, acts of violence in the united states, where conservatives said they used their guns to protect their liberties? this is cultural. this is curl churl. people in cities in metropolitan areas that voted for hillary clinton that are drinking soy lattes don t have guns. and then outside in rural areas,
came from about 40 minutes away. it s unlikely this guy knew anybody in the town. these people are suffering because everybody in that town knew somebody there, was related to somebody there, was close to somebody there. it s definitely devastating for this local community. harold ford? good morning, attorney general. our prayers and condolences with you and all of those throughout texas. thank you. very quickly to get back to an issue, you ve been quoted as saying that you don t believe guns, or any kind of limitations on guns would have any real effect on limiting and eliminating these kinds of instances. we learned this morning that this shooter, when applying for this weapon in 2016, marked on his form that he had not accused, let alone convicted of any criminal activity. and he lied. do you not think there s some way we could go about passing a law or passing some regulations to ensure that people who are convicted of crimes or had been
approach to trying to keep weapons, like harold said, out of people s hands that probably don t need that. i don t want to create impediments to law-abiding citizens from having guns. in this case, the people who potentially slowed this guy down from killing more people are people that had guns and stopped him from continuing his killing spree. i want to make sure that whatever we do doesn t impede law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves. this guy chose this community because he didn t think that there would be first responders there quickly. and thank god we had these two guys with weapons to move this guy at least out of the church more quickly. nick confessore. you said that you don t think an evil person will follow the gun laws. if evil people, mass shooters won t follow gun laws stlrks any purpose to gun laws at all? should we have them if people aren t going to follow them? we have laws against murder.