the gun safety community would like to see. even things that senator murky and senator cornyn are discussing are modest. red flag laws, background checks being expanded, simple things you would think there could be some common ground on, but things that might not have done anything to stop these particular massacres we ve seen in the last few days. the more expansive measures that might have done something to stop those particular shooting rampages are off the table as far as republicans are concerned right now. i think you re right. we may see some sort of common ground, but it won t necessarily be on the kind of expanive measures that polls show a lot of americans support. we sound like a broken record, but those issues, universal background checks, red flag laws, overwhelmingly popular among the american
with historical context. i was actually pleased with amy coney barrett, who did. i thought asked reasonable and thoughtful questions. but the, my fear listening to the questions, is they had no concern for public safety for the balance of public safety against what they deemed the second amendment. and for anyone who didn t listen to the arguments earlier today, you should be deeply concerned about what this activist court is going to do. what is the role, if any, at this point then of stronger legislation? i know that you ve been involved in those fights. i know president biden has been in touch with you and with the gun safety community, but someone asked me today where gun safety legislation is in congress and it isn t even among the myriad of things we talk
were so scared that they national security adviser wouldn t support it. because he s an ideologue, not a and so then it was hard for point guard or an honest broker, democrats to then go to even and because he undermined the moderate republicans and get process whereby expertise and them on board with the legislation because the fear of opinion could come up through the nra and the backlash was so the national security council to get to the president. that s a problem. pervasive. that s going to be a problem no you flash forward now to where matter who the national security adviser is now. and i guess that problem is the ground swell of activism, structural. the other problem is a president who s simply riding, you know, the intensity is really on the side of the gun safety community. is it mom s demand action? coochie coos for kim jong-un. yes. is it the parkland students? yes. they are all making their voices heard. and it is also the public, which i m not sure. is starting to shif
going directly at barbara comstock, featuring gabbie gifford herself speaking to the camera, which is something we haven t seen before. she in many ways is a powerful advocate as a victim herself of gun violence that forever changed her life. this also marks the beginning of a suburban offensive that we have not seen in the past, going after a lot of these suburban swing districts. joe, this is one of the things that s been lacking in the past, which is the money and the intensity behind the gun safety community, the pro gun control community. so you could expect to potentially see ads like this in many suburban swing districts, from states like minnesota to arizona to virginia. this is just the first one. i think it is significant it is right in the backyard of the nra at a time when their popularity is at an 18-year low according to recent polling. and barbara s strict distric
tennessee, there s a great deal of support actually for the kind of proposals that were on the table and that got voted down. right. i agree with garance. the gun safety community is not punishing people who go against us at the ballot box. not yet. the gun control the gun rights side is absolutely punishing people and they know that lawmakers know they will be punished if they go across. joe manchin for example. we have to get into a position where they know that the gun safety community will punish them. otherwise, they re free to cross the aisle as they wish. for the first time after this failure to pass gun control legislation, we re seeing the gun control lobby come out with a lot of money and a lot of force for the first time, right? michael bloomberg s group among others is taking to the airwaves. i think that could be a game changer. isn t it the case mckay, that the vice president speaks ominously about those who voted against this background checks bill.