can t find those ten republicans in the senate to sign on to anything, no matter how mediocre it is, it s not going to be what joe biden wants, but whatever the compromise is, the question out there is can there be ten people from the other side of the aisle who would sign on to it? yeah. david, the lesson is, for the senator, for voters, who would senators risk there, you know, risk themselves by taking a 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 v
the last seven years to getting 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 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 35% fewer deaths 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
in the association in it s hidden. i m in the association of marijuana violence. when you see these unfortunate incidences, the unthinkable mass shooting in texas, i look to see if marijuana is involved. i find often that the newspapers, the media hide it when it really is a major factor. and if we re if we re if we re as a country interested in solving the gun violence problem, i don t think i think we re going to have to look under the rock and look at the role of drugs, particularly marijuana, in causing the violence, particularly the mass violence. laura: dr. voss, the push to legalize marijuana is pronounced. huge lobbying efforts,
let s look at how bad canada s gun violence problem is, the country s rate of gun homicides per 100,000 is 0.5. that s less than a fifth of that in the us, at 4.12 but is still five times the level of australia, at 0.18 the canadian buyback plan is modelled on other efforts in the wake of national tragedies. the uk banned the private ownership of most handguns a year after the murder of 16 children in dunblane. it was the deadliest mass shooting in british history. australia banned nearly all semi automatic rifles after a gunman murdered 35 people at port arthur, in 1996. a buy back scheme was launched, and the government collected more than 600,000 weapons. and new zealand banned semi automatic weapons following the 2019 attacks on two mosques in christchurch that killed 51 people. their buy back programme removed 56,000 guns from circulation, but critics say that s only a third
congress was not willing to renew it. there does not seem to be any momentum right now for even taking that action all over again, even though it had been in place for ten years. i think there is a system in washington right now that has calcified. people are locked into their positions on one side or the other. and nobody is moving. yeah. we witnessed yesterday was the vice president, of course, kamala harris, attending the buffalo funeral yesterday. the eldest victim of that mass shooting this month at the grocery store. vice president told reporters, peter, that the administration is not sitting around, not waiting to figure out to the solution to the nation s gun violence problem. but here is the thing. if you look back to 1994, the assault weapons ban, that was a signature achievement for the clinton administration. and it expired to ten years later. could that s kind of a band happen again? statistics will show that gun violence, mass assaults, dropped during those ten years. i