to get guns off the street. i m a sportsman. i have firearms. i hunt deer and pheasants and all that kind of stuff. you want law-abiding citizens to give up their rights to own firearms at this point? that s a fair question. it is a fair question. and i take every opportunity to emphasize. i m glad you asked it again. absolutely not. well then you have a law-abiding citizen who happened to be an nfl player who gets a great deal of visibility because of this tragic incident. should he have not been able to own a firearm? the 2nd amendment has been decided. it s within his right to own a firearm. he should have been aware of the risks associated with it. i think there s an education job we need to do there. we need to have an honest conversation about the risks and dangers associated with firearms. and we need to do what we can from a policy perspective to keep the guns out of the hands of people that are known
i m a sportsman. i have firearms. i hunt deer and pheasants and all that kind of stuff. you want law-abiding citizens to give up their rights to own firearms at this point? that s a fair question. it is a fair question. and i take every opportunity to emphasize. i m glad you asked it again. absolutely not. well then you have a law-abiding citizen who happened to be an nfl player who gets a great deal of visibility because of this tragic incident. should he have not been able to own a firearm? the 2nd amendment has been decided. it s within his right to own a firearm. he should have been aware of the risks associated with it. i think there s an education job we need to do there. we need to have an honest conversation about the risks and dangers associated with firearms. and we need to do what we can from a policy perspective to keep the guns out of the hands of people that are known dangerous.
say what does this mean to you? for example, when dave walker and i talked to groups on behalf of the foundation, when people understand, particularly young people, that their taxes would have to double, and they understand, for example, the payroll taxes are the biggest tax paid by 80% of the public, they begin to say, hey, this has got something to do with me. you make a very good point, david walker, about how some of the choices our leaders made in the past that we re not following today. tell me about that. we can learn from history. leadership starts at the top with the president of the united states. let s learn first. president bush 4 # 1 and president clinton did three things in common. broke campaign promises on tax he didn t expand entitlement programs. guess what? president bush 43 did exactly the opposite. so far it s early for president obama. president obama needs to learn from president bush 41 and from
the problem and puts pressure on our political system are we likely to get reforms. let s hope to god that it doesn t take a huge crisis because as senator bradley was pointed out, if the foreign powers lose interest in the united states, it has enormous impact on foreclosures, on inflation, on standard of living and so forth. so we have to educate the public about the seriousness of the problem. one of the problems we all have is these numbers i ve been hearing are so unbelievably large, you know $62 trillion, $10 trillion, people have trouble identifying with them. part of our education job is to say what does this mean to you? for example, when dave walker and i talked to groups on behalf of the foundation, when people understand, particularly young