background checks to cover gun shows and internet sales. the cost of the deal, apparently, private person-to-person sales, which will still be exempt from background checks. the nra was a, quote, near constant presence in the room as manchin and toomey worked out the details and toomey would prefer you not even refer to it as gun control. i don t consider criminal background checks to be background checks, it s just common sense. see that, that is the power of the center. the center gets to be common sense, which is good. everything else is defined as politics, which is bad. now, narrow as this background check may be when put up against a staggering problem of gun violence in this country, it s still a remarkable think. even just six months ago, a bipartisan gun safety bill of any kind would have been unthinkable. there has not been a major piece of gun safety legislation debated in the senate since 1994.
which the president wants and has in his budget, there are more politically palatable places to get it. here s the problem people making $115,000 and would be, you know, paying more. so, here s the problem, the entire need for a deal, as you were talking about, chris, earlier in the segment, has to do with this urgent priority that is a washington obsession, which is to actually lower the deficit. when, in fact, the most urgent need outside of washington is to create more jobs, to raise take home pay and deal with the fact employers have walked away from pensions and 401(k)s are abysmal at actually protecting retirement, so we re going to need a more generous social security package in the future. it s not just related to what s going in the economy. very briefly, i agree with you on the short term, we re on completely the same page, but to say with the baby boomers retiring and these unbelievable, you know, boulders coming down
it always goes to a firearms dealer. the gun show thing is a little bit different. there s still nothing stopping people from walking out to the parking lot saying we re no longer at a gun show, we can do business. i think this is absolutely meaningless. the question that i have is it s a deal, but what does the other side get? doesn t seem to be anything the nra side is getting from this. there s a law saying we can t have a firearm s registry, but there s a law that says that. when we re talking about the optics of deal making, part of the optics of deal making is you have to give your base something. i got in there with those democrats and i fought for you. and here is the example of this, which is statement from joe manchin on the bipartisan deal with senator pat toomey on background checks. under current law, background checks are performed by licensed dealers, recordkeeping will not change, dealers will keep records in bound books. the federal government cannot keep records. ou
anything like what s happening right now, almost 20 years ago. the only gun measure to get through congress during barack obama s first term was, notably, an amendment to allow you to carry firearms into national parks. even the nra was apparently physically looming over the negotiations, the deal announced today is exactly the sort of thing the nra has been fighting like crazy to prevent. here s what the political offers instead, a placebo called universal background checks. yep, that s their big idea. it s an unworkable universal federal nightmare bureaucracy being imposed under the federal government. the nra s elite placebo nightmare is now on its way to almost, maybe, coming true. in real life. in a move from capitol hill that could not have been imagined last year. another big news is the bipartisan group of eight senators tasked with coming up with an immigration reform framework. those eight senators are just
shows and internet sales. the cost of the deal, apparently, private person-to-person sales, which will still be exempt from background checks. the nra was a, quote, near constant presence in the room as manchin and toomey worked out the details and toomey would prefer you not even refer to it as gun control. i don t consider criminal background checks to be background checks, it s just kmons. see that, that is the power of the center. the center gets to be common sense, which is good. everything else is defined as politics, which is bad. now, narrow as this background check may be when put up against a staggering problem of gun violence in this country, it s still a remarkable think. even just six months ago, a bipartisan gun safety bill of any kind would have been unthinkable. there has not been a major piece of gun safety legislation debated in the senate since 1994. that was the last time we saw