some real areas of disagreement are finally starting to emerge between the leading candidates. yesterday, hillary clinton unveiled a gun control proposal that included a call to repeal legislation that protects gunmakers and dealers from being sued by victims of gun violence. bernie sanders who has come under fire for his past votes on gun control legislation voted in favor of that legislation specifically in 2005. the u.s. and 11 other pacific rim countries have reached a deal on the very controversial transpacific partnership trade. sanders is lam batted tpp as a wall street handout that will cost americans jobs. hillary clinton touted ttp though she currently isn t saying whether or not she supports it. a short time ago i asked sanders how he would try to stop. you stop it by organizing the american people. i think most of whom understand that our previous trade ingredients of which tpp is just one, have been daft tremendous for the middle class and working
this long heritage on why that s there and gunmakers they care about firearm as laws and where you manufacturer them is not really a impacted by laws where you can sell them. so, i think this is kind of a publicity stunt. that said, you know, there are real reasons that texas is growing so much faster than the rest of the country and i don t think people go and get a personal appeal from the rest of the state. but i think it s partly the tax and regulatory stuff that rick perry is talking about. home prices are much more affordable in texas than a lot of the markets where he is going to campaign for texas. if you re a person earning a middle class income, what is important is that you can afford the home when you probably can t in the new york area. we should say kind of the interesting post script to this there is a company called ptr industries and it makes military-style rifle after perry was making his pitch that it s going to move to south carolina.
agreements anymore with gun manufacturers. what are they? what are you trying to do about them? that s exactly what we re trying to do. bring awareness. let people know where you spend your money makes a difference. video game companies often get into licensing agreements with gunmakers to place their products in these video games. these video games, as we all know, are often played by videos and teens. this is a back door arrangement, and gun manufacturers are profiting. they are advertising their products with these games. we need this to stop. our report shows that video games that use made up names for weapons are just as popular and just as profitable. they don t need to make these deals. electronic arts has agreed to stop this practice. we want other video game makers to do the same.
well, it was very emotional. it was very emotional. the mothers spoke who had lost their children to gun violence in the bronx. somebody said, somebody who really knows, said that every day in this country eight children are killed by gunfire. every day. and that really knocks me off my pin. then you think, really, we have to do something. that s what we re trying to do. kim, much has been made of the nra s influence, their ability to lobby gunmakers. have you had as much success lobbying lawmakers? we re getting there. actually, within 24 hours of the senate vote, 146 senators voted no for watered down backgrounds check bill, our membership shot through the roof. mothers were outraged. not just moms. everybody, fathers, too, grandfathers. we are in this for the long haul, and we are making a difference. since that vote we have sent
background check. also another bill to limit the size of ammunition magazines. there s a bill to try to get around the federally imposed immunity for gunmakers so they cannot be sued for the way their products are used. nobody seems to believe that all of these bills are going to pass, but nobody seems to believe that none of these bills are going to pass either. they have been in session, they have been debating this stuff in colorado today. they ve been fighting it out for ten hours today and still counting. they plan, i hear, to stay until they vote on the last of the seven bills however long that takes. this is happening right this second. they ve already seen charges filed against one angry opponent for allegedly threatening one of the state representatives who sponsored some of the legislation. she s a representative who already lost a son to gun violence. the man being charged in this case allegedly threatened to kill both her and her daughter who he named in racially explicit m