take into account a person s stability and not just their legal record. i know that you have a list of things you would like to have happen. do you think it s are you willing to take what you can get at this point? thanks, jake. yeah, i m willing to take what i can get, but i can guarantee you, just based on the conversation that s happening in the senate t will not be enough. i know the focus is on schools and mental health, and that s important. but in el paso in 2019, the massacre was at a walmart. so, are we going to harden every single public facility or are we going to get to the underlying issue, which is guns? that is the foundation of every massacre. when you look at what republicans want to do, i want americans to look at the state of texas, because it is the test case for what republicans want, which is solving the gun violence problem with more guns. and what that s done is made texas the number one state for mass shootings. and we ve got to attack the gun
enough. i know the focus is on schools and mental health, and that s important. but in el paso in 2019, the massacre was at a walmart. so, are we going to harden every single public facility or are we going to get to the underlying issue, which is guns? that is the foundation of every massacre. when you look at what republicans want to do, i want americans to look at the state of texas, because it is the test case for what republicans want, which is solving the gun violence problem with more guns. and what that s done is made texas the number one state for mass shootings. and we ve got to attack the gun situation and not just the school situation. there s plenty of room under the constitution, under the second amendment for reasonable gun regulation, including especially regulation of ar-15s, which are tantamount or close to m 16s that the supreme court couldn t ban. so there s so many reasonable
problem. simply put, i am sick and tired of being sick and tired. i want my daughter to grow up in a world that is not just a brig lip service to the idea of being better. i want my daughter to live in a world where we are better. i am willing to bet that i am not the only mom out there feels this way. i am angry and i am a mom. this might be the answer to a mid term success strategy for democrats in 2022. a programming note for you now, tomorrow, msnbc presents a devils advocate, the mostly true story of destefano. it is a three part a sky original series of following the famed attorney s journey to disgraced conman. they watch the lead rise to a lawyer saying the who s who of the criminal world from charles manson to saddam hussein, and the efficacy investigation that revealed the true identity that he hid behind schemes, and lies. episode two of devil s advocate
gamble on this? well, it depends on how much of a risk they think they re taking. there are some things here so overwhelmingly supported that there isn t that much risk associated with it and if you have, you know, one of the reasons mitch mcconnell assigned john cornyn to lead these negotiations is that he has impeccable credentials with the gun-owning community, with the gun activist and so if he blesses a deal, that will give coverer to other senators to come along on a deal but anderson, i have to respond to one thing dave said, he s absolutely right. we have a terrible gun violence problem in chicago. we also have a problem, 60% of the guns recovered there come across the border from indiana and other states with lax gun laws so it is a national problem. it is not just a state problem and we have to address it as a national problem. gloria, two davids, appreciate it refer to you guys as two davids from now on.
the bill passed. it will begin to make a difference. it will begin to save lives. in four states that already have waiting periods to buy handguns, that seems to be true. 47,000 sales have been blocked after background checks. according to the brady campaign, background checks made a big difference in the nearly 30 years since the law went into effect, preventing a prop approximately 4 million prohibited gun transactions. data shows that states that require background checks on all handgun sales, have seen less than half as many mass shooting incidences as states without those expanded requirements, as well as per capita. again, even though the scale of the gun violence problem has gotten almost out of control, there are small, marginal things we need to start doing. to add friction. to add impediments, to stop this from happening over and over. we have to stop we have to start moving the problem in the right direction, as opposed to the wrong one,