new republican-led congress in terms of civil rights? you mentioned reaching out to republicans. how do we tackle that, andrea? how do we get some of them? i know king was on the show. he comes to the rallies. met, he wants to reach out, even go, i think, i have little faith if they will be reaching back but he and martin keep telling me they will try to do it anyway. we have to do it. one of the things that martin luther king talked about it, separating the evil act from the individual. he understood that we are all in intertwined and linked destinies. what affects one of us affects all of us. we have to continue to raise that banner. we also i think in a real sense have to talk with them about realities. if nothing else, everyone remembers one sentence from the i have a dream speech. that s when martin s father referenced his four children. he only has one grandchild.
in the middle of that the mayor of seattle had the call that her city was dealing with a mass shooting. it is a sickness. it needs to be addressed. we did what we could. we represented our cities values here and took the necessary action. we took the risk of getting sued by the nra. and we prevailed. but at the end of the day, we need to see leadership, whether it s at the state level, i would prefer a national level. we are surrounded by several states who were very lenient. you are surrounded by other communities who don t have the. laws with the state is surrounded by other states illinois does have more strict gun laws in a lot of places. do but it doesn t matter. because they can just drive an hour there in indiana. drive in another direction, they re in missouri. this country has to get tighter with the at some point. the pictures, what happens to people s bodies when someone uses a combat weapon. it is making a statement, it s a violet, evil act. is there some se
a violent, evil act. is there some sense that this evolves in this changes? because it s hard. when you go into these communities where people say, i can t believe this happened here. but it does. it happens everywhere. is there some sense? do you get some sense, particularly seeing the vice president, we ve obviously had some gun legislation, which was monumental to have anything happen. do you think people are tired of it and they will support communities that take a strong stand? it s interesting. i ve got several calls for municipalities who are wanting to take this action. currently they re preempting by the state of illinois. we re working when he came here, there will hopefully be action in terms of removing state preemption or creating a statewide ban. but, again it has to be a national movement. we are the only country that doesn t address access to weapons of war. we know people have mental health issues and other countries video games, and post nonsense on social med
some prominent republican and conservative reaction to, um, optional or partial government encroachments on liberty in the covid emergency to the choice and abortion case. take a look. in south dakota, we are going to be free and we are going to make sure we don t overten our authorities. those babies are patients so they define them as patients, follow the science. this is a violation of their freedoms. this should be every american s right. the end goal of course is to completely end abortion, which is the most evil act, um, in in all of human history. that is more than freedom. that is the right to control and secure your own body. correcting that flawed decision finally law allows states and congress to protect life in ways we were never able to for the last 50 years. in the country and in the court, is there even an honest discussion of liberty here? of course there is always a discussion of liberty.
again? i don t know. i don t know if honestly, we don t know what we re going to do. he s going to have to face his fears. because he s never going to put it behind them. they put a grown ass man to go to war have ptsd, can t even handle and i can t imagine what a little mind like that, a young mind, what he has to go through. i m never, i m never going to know, she s never going to know, you re never going to know what he s really going through. omar, in terms of legal action, you mentioned in your piece, the families heard from the gunmakers? reporter: we haven t heard that up to this point. we reached out to daniel defense multiple times at this point but haven t heard back. the only thing they ve posted is on their site, calling what happened an evil act, john. but i should also mention, of