regulations. but the elections say the opposite. they say if the gun lobby is going to continue turning a policy debate into a cultural one then an equally powerful cultural argument need to be made in response. joining me now david sorrota. when i read your column, opened my eyes to approachize have n et kidd considered. in the thick of it in colorado. what are progressives missing abut how to handle these types of debates. what happened here in colorado, lawrence, the democrats passed a sensible set of gun control measures. then thought they could go away from it, ignore it, not worry about it. not continue to sell it. what ended up happening was the very motivated gun extremists in this state, mounted a set of campaigns, recall campaigns, to highlight the issue, take out democrats, give the nra a gift of saying here is a way to scare
scheduled. and i got wind that the gun extremists were planning on crashing the town hall. and it was at a university, it was at portland state university. and i did not want to subject students to that kind of event. because when that happens, and it s happened to me before where town halls have been crashed, and not only are they able to legally bring in loaded guns, which is very intimidating, but their behavior is extremely intimidating. wait a minute. they bring in loaded guns? yes. when they say their behavior is extreme, what do you mean? what do they do while they have these loaded guns? they re very rude and disruptive. again, this is the fringe. this is not your regular gun owner. this is the fringe. but, unfortunately, they are dominating the discussion right now. and it s very unfortunate. now, let me show these
it s the only reason. and anyone who says that s excessive, president obama says you re an absolutist. well, the nra has been unapologetic in its defense of gun rights, of course, fighting even nationally popular controls like background checks and ammunition limits. in fact, the nation s gun extremists out there have hit the panic button in their delusional belief that president obama sits atop a tyrannical government in their delusion to take away guns. joining me dana will bank and former san francisco mayor willie brown. i want to go to mayor brown on this. it just seems to me there are other reasons to have lists of people buying guns, especially semiautomatic rifles, mayor. they have fingerprints on people out there. we don t collect people s hands. this is an absurd lie. of course there are reasons to want to know who buys certain guns. maybe we should have ballistic tests on everything so we have know who kills somebody. your thoughts.
of absolutism into a dirty word. just another word for extremism. he wants you, all of you, and americans throughout all of this country to accept the idea of principles as he sees fit. there s only two reasons for a federal list on gun owners. it s the only reason. and anyone who says that s excessive president obama says you re an absolutist. well, the nra has been unapologetic in its defense of gun rights, of course, fighting even nationally popular controls like background checks and ammunition limits. in fact, the nation s gun extremists out there have hit the panic button in their delusional belief that president obama sits atop a tyrannical government in their delusion to take away guns. joining me dana will bank and former san francisco mayor willie brown. i want to go to mayor brown on this. it just seems to me there are other reasons to have lists of
country to accept the idea of principles as he sees fit. there s only two reasons for a federal list on gun owners. to either tax them or take them. it s the only reason. and anyone who saysthat s excessive, president obama says you re an absolute it. the nra has been unapologetic in its defense of gun rights fighting even naturally popular gun controls. in fact, the nation s gun extremists out there have hit the panic button in their delusional belief that president obama is determined to take aware their guns. i want to go to mayor brown on this. it just seems to me that there are other reasons to have lists of people buying guns, especially semi-automalttic rifles, mayor. they have fingerprints out there, but we don t collect people s hands.