part to keep us safe. what is primary response for city leaders in chicago, new orleans, other places. what is it you must do to make it safe for our children. let me speak to that phrase. you re exactly right. you ve had discussions, police chief, ex-governor, community activist on. the first thing elected leaders do, come up with prescriptions right away. then everybody is plaming everybody else. the first thing that people need to realize in this country is this is a national epidemic. although it seems like the isolated incidents it happens, sometimes in a neighborhood you expect, sometimes you don t. 611,000 people have been killed on the streets in america since 1980, 40 every day. newtown should never preept itself. the death of trayvon martin, a tragic event. the shooting of gabrielle giffords and columbine.
from some conservatives is, look, ronald reagan did amnesty. straight-up amnesty, only got 37% of the hispanic vote. the democratic advantage was 24 percentage points. george w. bush known to be for path to citizenship, comprehensive immigration reform, at top end he got 40% of the hispanic vote. there are republicans who are saying there s no payoff for us at the ballot box if you legalize 11 million people, many of whom are hispanic, the majority of whom are hispanic, they re going to vote democratic, why should we do this? that s fascinating, i bet if we had the former presidential candidate for the republican party on and you asked the ex-governor if he would have liked to have gotten 44% of the hispanic vote, i think they would have been happy with 44% of the latino vote instead of the low 20s. every month 50,000 latinos born
but clobber them. they are getting the base republican vote. for her to beat a popular ex-governor and a rising star, marco rubio is extraordinary news. i have been around politics and i don t have any inside news but i know this, when people are the frontrunner if their party, the prohibitive likely nominee well ahead of the leading republican challengers, the chance they don t run is very low. you have heard it here first we predict,ry predict, she will run for president in 2016. rubio and jeb bush are thought of as two of the brightest stars in the republican party. bush is the great institution in florida. the notion he could be behind by 11 points and that is stunning. he has problems but explains the problems in part with the
lineup card. he s nominated a business woman, the walmart foundation chief, to head the office of management and budget. that s a tough job these days as president obama battles with congressional republicans over spending. the assistant epa administrator gina mccarthy is the pick to head the environmental protection agency. and ernest moniz, an nit scientist, is in the lead to lead the energy department. a number of new faces in top posts. just ahead, an ex-governor goes through a bitter divorce but reportedly asked his ex-wife to run a new political campaign. and also the first deadly sinkhole destroyed part of a florida house. now authorities take down the rest of the house to see what they re up against.
if this fellow, if lanza had had to reload eight or nine times, many of those kids could have gotten away and run out of the classroom, et cetera, while he was taking out one magazine and putting in another. it s not going to stop individuals like lanza from trying to do things, but it s going to limit the carnage. we also should get rid of the gun show loophole. right. do you know, craig, that 40% of the guns purchased in the united states, the individual does not have to go through a background check so they can be stone wacko and get a gun at one of these gun shows. everyone, including nra members, there was a recent poll by frank luntz which said 74% of nra members believe everyone should have a background check. why is that not the case, governor? why does that not exist? because the nra has created an illusion that they are going to beat you if they are against you, and i sit here as an ex-governor of the second largest nra membership state in