law enforcement. yes, we re all talking guns. everybody s talking guns, but the fbi missed the warning, which now now seems minor compared to everything else that has happened where you have local law enforcement officers missing 35, 39 warnings about this this shooter, and then of course the horrifying information that came out last night, there actually was a good guy with a gun at as the president and every nra person will say. there was a law enforcement officer at the school and he didn t go in. in part, i am sure because he was overmatched. now, that s no justification. at 9/11, you were working 9/11, you saw the firemen going in, they knew that they probably wouldn t be coming down that tower.
of things that were concerning civil libertarians so there was more of a question of what was going on. i remember in 97 the tied turned. it turned because it was a bipartisan group and i remember you had john dingle and murtha standing up saying no, too much and you knew then okay, well, since the democrats are jumping in here they re not they re not going to succeed. but things have changed and it s gotten so extreme. but it would be great. there are proposals that are in between getting stopping a gun getting rid of a gun that eight million of which are out there and other versions of semiautomatic rifles so it would be great if you had a bipartisan proposal that would do common sense things to restrict the killing capacity, make it at least less horrible if someone gets into school with one of these things, have a bipartisan bill and the same on
and the mentally ill and you get recalled. and the thing they said while you re getting half the gun purchases already, why do we have to wait around, crooks aren t stupid and finally my son was 11 and he said dad, get the facts, make a decision, check next, your life isn t so hard. so i went back and in the previous year and i still memorized the statistics. 38 people convicted of homicide tried to buy a gun and we stopped them. 133 people convicted of sexual assault tried to buy a gun. 1300 people convicted of felony assault, where somebody usually goes to the hospital so without question and you stopped them. we stopped them so universal background checks do work and rural colorado, rural america does believe there them, want them. somehow the political dynamic hasn t caught up the political dynamic hasn t caught up to the sentiment of the people. and americans across the board want an assault rifle weapons ban. they do.
and oregon s lawmakers passed a bill yesterday banning anyone with a domestic violence or stalking conviction from owning a firearm. the bill closed a 2015 loophole that allowed abusers who weren t living with, married to or have children with their victim to own a gun. the bill heads to the desk of governor kate brown who lobbied for the bill and governor brown joins us now along with governor john hickenlooper of colorado. thanks to you both for being on this morning. this is a great segment. we re excited to have you here. i want to speak to camera really quickly and set this up. what we ve been saying is you re going to hear from the nra and gun manufacturers that every american has a right to carry around an ar-15. the supreme court of the united states says every american has a right to have a handgun or perhaps a shotgun in their home to protect themselves but scalia in heller in 2008 went no further than that and the court has denied one case after
showed up was shot 12 times i s he miraculously survived. i saw him in the hospital about three months later. guns are an issue in domestic violence cases a lot. we ve had 66 domestic violence deaths in oregon in the last two years, half due to gun-related incidences. spouse or intimate partner. we have a culture of violence, this must end now. congress must take action. if the kids can t get them to do it, i don t know who can. let me state another thing for my viewers that i wouldn t have known until i went out the, you all both live in obviously western states but that are also rural. you have a lot of rural areas, a lot of gun owners.