perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. the judge issued a permanent injunction so the law cannot be enforced. joininging us is democratic senr alex padilla. so great to see you in person. i understand we re your first in-person interview since the pandemic. what are your concerns about the impact on crime, violent crime and maybe gun deaths with the lifting of this law. well, look, a horrible ruling, number one. number two, californians rest assured the ruling is being appealed. so it s not a final final. the court process, the judicial process is ongoing. but what a horrible signal it sends especially given what s going on around the country. so you re part of the senate rules committee which issued this report on the insurrection. i was talking to tim kaine, democratic senator from virginia. he said this was a report about securing a building, not securing democracy.
a federal court judge s ruling in california, because you served as the l.a. police chief and in a state with assault weapons ban, still does. federal judge just overturned it in san diego. first sentence is this what the swiss army knife, popular ar-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment, judge robert benitez. what is your reaction to that? he s an idiot, idea of using language like that, it comparing a swiss army knife to machine gun. hundreds of thousands of these weapons compared to swiss army knife. he s out of his mind. take a look at your graduation photo from police
because, you served as the l.a. county police chief. you served in a state that had an assault weapon ban, still does. this federal judge just overturned it. his first sentence of his opinion is this, like the swiss army knife, the popular ar-15 rifle, is a perfect combination of home defense weapon, and homeland defense equipment. that s from george robert benitez. what s your reaction to that? he is an idiot. the idea of using language like that, comparing a was arm enough to what is basically a machine gun that many people possess in this country, hundreds of thousands of these weapons, compared to a swiss army knife, he s out of his mind. i want to take a look
defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. he went on to say, they aren t as deadly as we ve been led to believe, writing this. one is to be forgiven if one is persuaded by news media and others that the nation is awash with murderous ar-15 rifles. the facts do not support this hyperbole. facts matter. but there is no question that gun violence and ar-15s in particular are an epidemic in this country. the deadliest mass shootings in recent years have been because of the assault weapon style machinery, claiming the lives of hundreds. our neighbors, moms, dads and kids. joining us now, fred guttenberg. his daughter was killed in the parkland school shooting in 2018. claire mccaskill is with us as well. fred, i follow you on twitter. every time i read your tweets, i have the same thought. how do you do is this? how do you find the strength to speak out against insane rulings like this and the fight that governor newsom said is starting
is too broad and too partisan. i think it s the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together and unite our country and i m not supporting that because i think it would divide us further. griff: manchin says he ll seek bipartisan compromise, no matter how difficult the democrats legislation has not gathered any republican support and without manchin s vote the likelihood of the bill passing the senate is slim. meanwhile, california democrats are sounding off as a federal judge overturns the state s decades-long assault weapons ban. jillian: that judge defending his decision, stating, quote, like the swiss army knife, the popular ar-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. good for both home and battle. here to discuss what this means for california gun owners is national spokesperson for gun owners of america, antonia