all christie has to do is stand next to him on the campaign trail at all times and his size problem will disappear. shaquille o neal was meeting with christie to get involved with the state s gun buy-back program. up next, how far out of step is today s republican party with the rest of the country? we ve got some new poll data that suggests the republicans are on their own. in fact, they re their own worst enemy. you re watching hardball. the place for politics.
it was such a shakeup, i don t think it s temporary. it s so shocking, people in the inner city are dealing with gun violence every day. but newtown shocked the conscience, aurora did as well. newtown, especially so because it was kids. if we can t get gun control now, i would think we probably can t get it at all. what s a hopeful sign for the future of gun safety? the fact that chris christie and shaquille o neal were together, that s the photo. which is incredible even regardless of the fact that they re talking about gun buy-back programs. the height differential is massive-o, a lot to be said about that photo. it s heartening, we re still talking about it. and christie has been getting a lot of trouble from his right about his moderate position on gun issues, that s when they didn t invite him to cpac. people talk about medicaid expansion and the hug with president obama, but people at cpac talked about was the gun control issue, he s too far off the reservation about that. i
all christie has to do is stand next to him on the campaign trail at all times and his size problem will disappear. shaquille o neal was meeting with christie to get involved with the state s gun buy-back program. up next, how far out of step is today s republican party with the rest of the country? we ve got some new poll data that suggests the republicans are on their own. in fact, they re their own worst enemy. you re watching hardball. the place for politics. oh. let s go. from the crack, off the backboard. [ laughs ] dad! [ laughs ] whoo! oh! you re up! oh! oh! so close! now where were we?
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background check as sort of, you know, only getting half closing loopholes. that in some ways would be more effective in preventing some of the gun violence. gun violence that s not just sort of massacres like newtown, but gun violence like we re talking about in chicago. yeah. exactly. you know, the disappointing piece of this, the kind of cavat, is that please. focus on the sell ver lining. look, we have 300 million guns out there in the country. more so than cars. these things last 100 years. you know? they re being passed around, sold, stolen. you know, these are all very, very deadly weapons, and though there is some momentum now and even really good proposals out there for how to limit guns that are being manufactured now, will be manufactured in the future, we re still talking about an almost unfathomable backlog of deadly weapons. snoo in your research for your piece, how effective did you find gun buy-back? did you explore that? gun buy-back is like a cas