he is just one in a crowd of extremists who think that they speak for all gunowners across america and second amendment lovers. right wingers at the drudge report compared the president to hitler and stalin. really? yeah. another gun advocate used slavery to make his case against gun control. if african-americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history. we ll talk more about slavery and guns in a moment. first, you should know larry ward is pushing a national gun appreciation day. it s on the weekend before martin luther king day. ward claims this is the first gun appreciation day. but we found gun appreciation days dating back to 1995. this was the year the oklahoma city, right after congress
apparently building ahead of january 19. gun appreciation day. there is no chance of any serious gun control legislation coming out of congress. half of the members of congress have an a rating from the nra. harry reid is not going to pushbe through legislation on gun control. it s just not going to happen. but it s astanding so quick astounding so quickly after newtown the conventionm wisdom is this is an opening out of gun control. i would never expect congress to do anything on gun control. it s because they are all button fold by the nra or they live in fear of nra dropping money in their district to defeat them. also their constituents like gun rights. that part of it, too. not always. i don t think most of the people, i don t think people in the country think we shouldn t have some basic gun laws. that the nra opposes like the slightest change or slightest protection. charles?
balloon to 5 million in this debate. january 19 has been designated the national gun appreciation day that want people to rally with signs saying hands off my guns. gun right groups were active last year. nra donated $20 million to pro-gun candidate and causes. by contract, gun control contributed less than any time in the last 20 years. combined tote is $4,000 of political candidate on their side of the issue. white house trying to level the playing field organizing gun control grass root, tapping religious leader, labor and community leaders for rally and town hall likebe few blown campaign. the groups started by bloomberg. the group new ad has mother of a child killed in historically infamous ram page two years ago. my 9-year-old daughter was murdered in the tucson shooting. i have one question for the
it s time to say enough. if we don t deal with the substance abuse issues and the mental illness issues we have no national database of these lunatics. . isn t that the internet is? we don t have a crime problem a gun problem. what we have is a sin problem. i think you are worried that the federal government is going to come after our guns. nobody is trying to take away your begun. the third reich, no one saw that coming until it was too late. hitler took the guns, stalin took the guns. mao is took the guns. limiting your second amendment rights is priority one for sheriff joe. 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms! what in the world are you talking about? confiscation. it s about reansistance to government tyranny. gun appreciation day honors the legacy of dr. king. many of those praepales are feel-good proposals. if african-american had been given the right to keep and bear
perceived popular will. bret: this statement by the nra clearly a firm push back here. you are seeing the grass roots effort including effort on january 19 to gun ownership day essentially. appreciation day. mara, how do you think this is playing out and where it falls? i think in the past, secretary amendment groups have really second amendment groups had the upper hand in the debate. it s impossible to pass gun restrictions through congress. it still is. but you see groups like the new one formed by gabrielle giffords or michael bloomberg who has money to put behind it. they want to be counterweight for the nra. it will take a long time to do that. the public is willing to see some more gun restrictions like background checks, maybe a been a of high capacity magazines. but the reason the president and the vice president talk about the executive orders