of you. what s your diagnosis of why you safest cities in america, el haven t caught on yet? we have. okay. where it matters. paso, texas. you re sophisticated enough to hunted down by their ethnicity with a weapon designed for use know politics. the polls have never been on a battlefield. predictive this far out. if you re polling ahead right talking to doctors and trauma now, you should worry because we room surgeons who treated the victims in el paso, they said have never had someone polling ahead at this time go on to win. these are wounds of war. when it hit their systems, it shredded everything inside of the people who win are long them. shots, carter, bill clinton, i refuse to assessment that. i refuse to even acknowledge the barack obama, but here s something more interesting to politics or the polling or the note. on the ground in the states where you re going to have fear or the nra. 300,000, 400 people deciding in that is purchase to complicity caucus rooms, we have mo
i m in in 235i6favor of second amendment rights. for years i carried a weapon. to my knowledge, no one in florida, for example, to which a murder can be traced who had a permit for carrying a gun. and so i m a supporter of second amendment rights for sure. it s not an nra issue. a lot of other people may think it is, but we ve got to create a wedge issue here. it s all about the kids and the schools and the young teenagers who are exposed right no if something crazy, undoubtedly, there is around the country, thinking about a mass shooting and can t wait to see one happen. that seems to be the menu du jour. let s plan another mass shooting. i had a guy on my show who lost his son in a shooting 26 years a s ago, wrote recently weren t we pretty much compartmentalize gun death. seems to agree 33,000 gun deaths a year is an acceptable price to pay for our unique constitutionally unique
dramatic dropoff but down 20% since 1996. that s not bean bag. a country that has the most probably stringent gun laws in the world is called japan. we have about 12,000 gun deaths a year. they have a couple years back where they had 2. 22 for them caused a national crisis. so it can be done. i do agree you have to find the right ways to do it. we may not be talking about them but it can be done. we re going to have to leave it at that and we will come back to this. thank you all for the fascinating conversation. next on gps the second amendment, what did the 27 words of that amendment mean when they were written in 1789? what do they mean today? constitutional law scholar from yale joins me when we come back. the kids after school, they are alone and they have nowhere to go and we tried to solve that problem by having this wonderful place where they can be children.
buyback from a tiny number to a slightly higher time. in australia a drop but at the same time a drop in nongun homicides and nongun suicides which makes it hart for me to say i m confident this will make a difference. the question becomes how do you explain the extraordinary reality that united states has 40 times as many gun deaths as britain, 30 times as many as france, almost 75 times as many as japan? other than guns. do we have 75 times more crazy people than these countries? do we have 75 times more violent video games than these? the only thing we have more of is guns. i could think that s a major driving factor but the question is, when people say this worked in england, this will work in america, will it actually? tomorrow if we woke up and there had been a gun rapture and all the guns vanished i would expect there to be fewer deaths but of the actual policies being put forward, will they have the effect of making america suddenly a country that doesn t have this ma
right and now he s taking on the second amendment issue or gun reform laws in america. and that s controversial. but they come from the heart. i mean, the week started with the tears in the president s eyes at the white house when he started talking about the first graders that were killed in connecticut. and then it flashed us back to when he sang amazing grace in charlton to the heinous crime that was there. and i think we are going to see that barack obama is becoming a griever in chief on these things. we count on him to almost hand hold through some of these crises and it s logical he is not dropping this issue at this moment in time with 30,000 gun deaths a year. i m sure you read this op ed in the new york times before the town hall. here s what he says, even as i take every action possible as president i will take every action i can as a citizen.