the big fear is if there s a national registry the federal government will knock on everyone s door. there won be a national registry. the white house is making a major push this week. the president, vice president, the first lady. the debate will go on for a while and then move on the house. will the president continue to be out front? yes. the president and the white house will continue pushing, wolf. we can try to ding the president on other issues. on this issue i talked to very aggressive pro gun control groups. there s a divide between those who have guns and those who don t. do you favor stricter gun control laws. among those individuals who do have a gun in their household 32% favor 66% oppose. if there s no gun in the
efforts. if i can stick with you for a minute, you wrote this week that the group 1 million moms for gun control have used it partially because of the term gun control. how has that come to be something that they could avoid. a woman based in indianapolis and she started this group from her kitchen since the days after newtown and was so upset and said i have to do something. she went with that name. 1 million moms for gun control and in the weeks since, in talking to other gun control groups, they ve advised her that they ve got to change the name, that gun control and we use it in journalism terms is considered a loaded term among gun rights advocates and it s sort of seen as a government grab of firearms and this group made it very clear. we re not trying to take weapons away, we re merely trying to limit them and keep them from people who shouldn t have them. she changed her name, to moms demand action for gun sense in
away, that didn t involve repealing or changing the meaning of the second amendment, that didn t involve banning handguns nationwide. but these are all things that were the stated policy goals of the gun control movement. there s been a change in the rhetoric. i remember it so well because i spent a couple of weeks after the columbine. you had all of these groups and they had different ideas about what ought to be done. some obviously much more progressive than others. that s absolutely right. nothing did get done after columbine except at the state level. there was no legislation passed although president clinton introduced a package of gun control proposals. if you look back at the coverage of those proposals that president clinton introduced, a lot of the coverage involved this infighting that you re talking about. gun control groups, far left saying, we don t like these packages from the democratic president because they don t go far enough. they are not banning handguns. they
giffords organization can. the one who can is michael bloomberg who has quite a bit of money, has been running has been making a very important play to try to become a counter to the nra in certain districts where they re trying to enter in particular. one thing that should broadly be said, it s not clear the nra s power comes from this kind of lobbying. their success rate of getting into elections and shaping or moving in their direction has not been very high. they have a couple fairly high profile in their belt but people dispute this interpretation. comes from an interpretation that they were behind the democrats losing control of congress in 1994. so if gun control groups, be it bloomberg or giffords organization can show they can defeat one or two incumbents opposing background checks that would go quite a long way to breaking whatever belief there is into the nra s ability. msnbc policy analyst, ezra klein. great to see you. thank you.
clinton. with all the personal data that s going out, is this a sign that groups are trying to organize for 2016, figure out who would be supportive and recepti receptive, at least to the performance that hillary clinton has done in this job, that they could then utilize coming up in a future run for president? i think part is to help hillary clinton, but part is also to help those groups, right, because if they can get the data about who are her supporters, they can have that information and then they ve got a great list of democratic supporters too. but to be sure, you re right. there is a super pac already formed by a woman named alita black, a pretty active fund-raiser for hillary clinton in the 2008 run. so there are people who, you know, big fans of hillary. so the secretary being in her mid 60s, coming around in 2016, be closer to 70 years old. 70 is the new 50. but take a listen to how secretary clinton described her health when talking to our andrea mitchell. i m healthy