i believe in family planning and i believe in access to a multiplicity of different options, but this goes a little too far. i m not sure i want tax dollars being used tim editorially provide abortion pills at every public college. it goes a little farther, further than eye is a moderate pro-choice democrat is countable with. we will not go to guns and doug, quickly will start with you. sure. shannon: a new law there. we know there are sort of red flag laws out there where some he was concerned can report to a police or a judge that they think someone is going to be need to be taken away. california s gun will expanded to be teachers, employers, even the aclu opposing is saying it poses a significant threat to civil liberties because orders can be stopped before gun orders have an opportunity to contest the request. doug, you first and then to jen. i m pro-red flag laws and on for the right to have as broad an array of people report
i am pro-choice. i believe in family planning, i believe in access and different options but this goes too far. i m not sure i want tax dollars being used to mandatorily provide abortion pills that every public college. goes a little farther than i as a moderate process pro-choice democrats comfortable with. let s start with you. a new law. we know there are red flag laws that they think someone s will be taken away, california will expand so all kinds of people can reporter. even the aclu opposing this saying it poses a significant threat to civil liberties because orders can be stop before gunowners have an opportunity to contest the request. i am pro-red flag laws and i
trump is the president of the united states and perhaps that is why he won his party s nomination not too long ago, because he, as some put it, told it like it was. so i think that, you know, everyone has their own strategy. my dad would say different strokes for different folks. so i don t criticize the former congressman, but what i do, will remind him what i will remind him of it will, could be, eventually used against him and us, in the court of public political opinion at some point. all right. i want to ask about the flip side now. if republicans don t get something done at least in the areas with bipartisan support like expanded background checks and flag laws, could that hurt them in 2020? this is an issue resonating with the american public especially women. i think suburban women and also millennials are very much in tune to this particular issue. children on clep campuses, children in high schools, have
keeping firearms away from people who shouldn t have them, particularly the mentally ill. pete: our next guest agrees with this tom cotton sits on the armed services committee and author of sacred duty a soldier s tour at arlington national cemetery. good to be back on with you. ainsley: always good to have you. pete: conservatives are weary of a knee-jerk reaction to something like this. rid flag laws. your take on that, i understand they are weary. people of arkansas are weary as well. several presidential candidates demanding walmart stop selling all firearms. that does not resonate very well with people who own firearms or need them to defend themselves or just to go hunting. however we shouldn t let mentally disturbed people have firearms. so the red flag laws that are under debate, first off should be a state matter. the federal government can provide grants for funding or department of justice the way we other law enforcement
well as so-called red nag laws flag laws to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. but the shootings have also renewed attacks over president trump s rhetoric with 2020 hopeful and former vice president joe biden accusing him of stoking hate with his words. listen. this president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in the this nation. he s poured fuel on the fire. we have a president with a fox fox toxic tongue who has publicly and unapologetically embraced the political strategy of hate, racism and division. david: let s bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editorial page editor dan henninger and columnists kim strassel and bill mcgurn. dan, americans, folks in real america outside the beltway, what do you think their reaction is to politicians trying to score political points on the basis of these shootings? well, i don t think they re shocked, david, but i certainly