we have to break that hammer lock. and if you go down, go to everytown.org right now. we will make sure mr. martinez s word get to your senator. you can go right on to our website, fill out your name, and your zip code, and we will make sure that mr. martinez s words reach every congressman, every senator, and every governor. the mobilization question there is, every time you have one of these horrific, murders, or mass murders, does it spur anything? senator richard bloomenthol spoke out. let s take a listen to that. i am going to urge that we bring back those bills, maybe reconfigure them to center on mental health. we need more resources to make the country healthier and to make sure that these kind of horrific, insane, mad occurrences are stopped. and the congress will be
engagement, he indicted our political system. he nailed it. they re out there having dinners with lobbyists and doing nothing for average american. that is really the central point here. because as you pointed out. most americans want to see sensible gun regulations. the support for background checks was over 90%. and yet nothing happens because the only voices that matter in washington are the special interests and the nra. i think what was so striking about this beside the grief which was unimaginable. i have an 8 and 11-year-old daughters. couldn t imagine this. what was so, came through was, how sensible what he was asking for was. what he basically said is, we have got to send a message to congress. we have got to send a message to our senators and our congressmen and governors and say, a very simple thing not one more. and he knows that the gun lobby has a hammer lock on our elected
cannot be fired unless the trigger is pulled. the hammer lock is an additional safety device. that s a metal plate that goes between the hammer and the back of the cartridge. back of the firing pins. if that metal plate is there it s safe? it cannot fire, correct? correct. only way you can start pulling on the trigger which has a four and a half to four three quarter pull does ta plahat pla drop in order to make the gun active? yes. the very nature to having a 4 and a half to four and three quarter pull is a safety feature? the trigger pull is not safety feature. having to pull the trigger without amount of force is a safety feature, correct? no. want you compare for the jury the pull necessary to pull a double action firearm as compared to a single action? are you talking the trigger travel distance? i m sorry.
cannot be fired unless the trigger is pulled. so the hammer lock is an additional safety device and that is basically a metal plate that goes between the hammer and the back of the cartridge, correct? back of the firearm. firearm. and an exact metal plate is safe, it cannot fire, correct? correct. and pulling on the firearm, it has a 4 1/2, 4 3/4 pull, is that plate dropped in order to make the gun active yes. correct? and the very nature of having a 4 1/2 to 4 3/4 point pull is a safety feature, correct? the trigger pull itself is not a safety feature. having to pull the trigger with that amount of pull is a safety feature, correct? no. why don t you compare the pull necessary to pull a double
leadership issue. let s take something like the gun issue. i think the gun issue is very tough. i am despondent to the point of believing there are so many guns in existence right now, i don t know how you stop the water fall that s been going on for generations. wayne lapierre, he took some heat on fox news over the web video that mentioned the president s daughter. listen to this. i think some people are going to say wayne lapierre still has the hammer lock on people from pennsylvania, indiana, ohio. right across the country to the far west except maybe california and new york and connecticut. you don t want to go to the war with the nra. what do you make of that? should they stay arm in arm with the nra? go on semiautomatics but maybe challenge them on background checks?