initiatives that they think can make a difference. the good news is these are not only recommendations that are well within my legal authority and the executive branch, but they re also ones that the overwhelming majority of the american people including gun owners support and believe in, the recommendations that are being made by my team here are ones that are entirely consistent with the second amendment. and people s lawful right to bear arms. and later in the week, the president will hold a town hall to talk about his gun control push. here with reaction, the host of dana on the blaze, dana loesch, kirsten powers and former detective bo dietl. kirsten, i ll start with you because you re on the other side of the aisle, but i consider you fairly intellectually honest. fairly? you are, you are actually very honest. thank you.
of those local legislative races. you mentioned the story of carolyn mccarthy, she s retiring this year. she got in there because of the long island railroad massacre in december of 1993. it was around that time that there was the last real gun control push in this country, the brady bill, five-day waiting period came through at that time. i think back around that time there were incidents like that that animated the discussion, but also a high crime rate in this country. when you took a poll back then, you asked the people the top question facing the country, crime is number one and number two. if you ask about violent crime right now, it is way down in polls. i can t help but think that s part of it. we ll have these horrible incidents like at newtown, people say let s do something about this. every day there s 33
based on the jeeg geography, anr perception of his work is where you fall on the guan laws, but it is real and not imagined. that is right. and i think that some of the places where boom bloomberg needs to go with the gun control push is not where people are hanging out of the cabs yelling at him, but small town thes and red states. what is interesting to me is how he has approached this is that we have covered the push for the background checks in congress extensively, and he was active in that period of time on television, and this is an acknowledgment that that push didn t work, and so what he needs to do is to launch the grass roots effort to what is similar to the national rifle association and what they have done for years. they are very focused on the state legislature, and state laws and to take the approach kind of from the ground-up as oppose theed to the tv airwaves on down, and in some ways, it mirror mirrors the group that is behind gabrielle giffords has been doing, and
gotten sophisticated about knowing who voters are, there are very specific senate races where this could make a difference, this midterm. red state, georgia, arkansas, virginia, part of it to emphasize the minimum wage, as you said, zerlina, but they might also have to abandon any gun control push that they have thought they wanted to do. absolutely, but i think the states we re talking about are states in which in 2008 president obama, it was a wave, right, so many of these democrats wouldn t have won had it been any other presidential year, so these are tough battlegrounds for democrats generally. it s not necessarily that 2014 and obama s lagging poll numbers mean that democrats are in more trouble than they would have been normally. i think this is very much the status quo. i think that we need to focus on the fact that the gop has white men, but they haven t reached out to women of color, people of color, lgbt community, and they need to be doing that. to your point, they volt
mcauliffe is seen as a defeat for the nra. i think that s, you know, people, their own tests. so, you know, yes. cuccinelli, who lost, the republican, was backed by the nra, but this is not as simple, and this is what and, by the way, what kind of end to the gun control push, certainly in the senate, had would have ended in the house, anyway there was a lot of democrats who come from gun culture states. they say, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. the problem is there has to be some sort of two-track thing, because everyone will come back to you and say, look at the last you know, five gun gun incidents. right. that have been big. all mentally deranged people. all people with huge mental problems. the country s not doing a good enough job on mental health. despite some high-profile school shootings, school has become a safer place over the past two decades. that s according to new numbers from the u.s. departments of justice and education.